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... observed , if only sufficient time was allowed for their operation . These new views attracted great attention . The demand for the book in which they were explained was so great , that it went through five editions in a very short time ...
... observed , if only sufficient time was allowed for their operation . These new views attracted great attention . The demand for the book in which they were explained was so great , that it went through five editions in a very short time ...
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... observed effects . Subsequently he brought out the " Student's Manual of Geology , " in which he brought together most of the facts mentioned in the two previous works . No geologist before Lyell's time had devoted himself so exclu ...
... observed effects . Subsequently he brought out the " Student's Manual of Geology , " in which he brought together most of the facts mentioned in the two previous works . No geologist before Lyell's time had devoted himself so exclu ...
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... observed by me and other friends lately , in watching the revolutions of a cup anemometer on the top of Alnwick Castle . On looking at the instrument , it was seen revolving in a direction consisting with the truth ; but on continuing ...
... observed by me and other friends lately , in watching the revolutions of a cup anemometer on the top of Alnwick Castle . On looking at the instrument , it was seen revolving in a direction consisting with the truth ; but on continuing ...
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... observed a huge Gjá , and an active eruption , which he briefly noticed in the " Times " newspaper , and which I hope he will presently describe at greater length , accompanying his description with a ground - plan and elevation . This ...
... observed a huge Gjá , and an active eruption , which he briefly noticed in the " Times " newspaper , and which I hope he will presently describe at greater length , accompanying his description with a ground - plan and elevation . This ...
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Royal Society of Edinburgh. compared . For all the observations on a single wire , it had , in all cases , as nearly as ... observed by means of a telescope . The current employed was that of a Bunsen's cell of great internal resistance ...
Royal Society of Edinburgh. compared . For all the observations on a single wire , it had , in all cases , as nearly as ... observed by means of a telescope . The current employed was that of a Bunsen's cell of great internal resistance ...
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Página 479 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind, whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind into the nature of things.
Página 231 - By mutual confidence and mutual aid, Great deeds are done, and great discoveries made ; The wise new prudence from the wise acquire, And one brave hero fans another's fire.
Página 477 - From these and all long errors of the way, In which our wandering predecessors went, And, like the...
Página 192 - List of the Vertebrated Animals now or lately living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 1872 Ditto.
Página 18 - CHA..MERS was licensed as a preacher of the gospel by the Presbytery of St.
Página 175 - Recent discussions on the abolition of patents for inventions in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Página 472 - For the several employments and offices of our fellows we have twelve that sail into foreign countries under the names of other nations (for our own we conceal), who bring us the books, and abstracts, and patterns of experiments of all other parts. These we call merchants of light.
Página 473 - We have also, as you must think, novices and apprentices, that the succession of the former employed men do not fail, besides a great number of servants and attendants, men and women.
Página 472 - We have three that bend themselves, looking into the experiments of their fellows, and cast about how to draw out of them things of use and practice for man's life and knowledge...
Página 30 - The study of the laws by which the Almighty governs the Universe is therefore our bounden duty. Of these laws our great academies and seats of education have, rather arbitrarily, selected only two spheres or groups (as I may call them) as essential parts of our national education : the laws which regulate quantities and proportions, which form the subject of mathematics...