Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Enlarged and ImprovedA. Constable, 1824 |
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... metal , he enumerates their medicinal effects . According to the notions of the age , he boasts of supernatural assistance ; and his work furnishes a good specimen of the controversial disputes between the chemical physicians and 1 ...
... metal , he enumerates their medicinal effects . According to the notions of the age , he boasts of supernatural assistance ; and his work furnishes a good specimen of the controversial disputes between the chemical physicians and 1 ...
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... metal , therefore , is a com- pound of earth and phlogiston . If sulphuric acid , which is not inflammable , be distilled with oil of turpentine , which is extremely so ; or , in other words , if phlogiston be added to sulphuric acid ...
... metal , therefore , is a com- pound of earth and phlogiston . If sulphuric acid , which is not inflammable , be distilled with oil of turpentine , which is extremely so ; or , in other words , if phlogiston be added to sulphuric acid ...
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... metal in the construction of the thermometer are manifold ; it retains its liquid state at very high and very low temperatures , and has the peculiar excellence of expanding very equally for equal increments of heat , which is far from ...
... metal in the construction of the thermometer are manifold ; it retains its liquid state at very high and very low temperatures , and has the peculiar excellence of expanding very equally for equal increments of heat , which is far from ...
หน้า 59
... metal he preserved and examined several kinds of air , which are instantly deprived of their elastic state by the contact of water . The first permanently elastic fluid of this description which he examined , was the muriatic acid ; he ...
... metal he preserved and examined several kinds of air , which are instantly deprived of their elastic state by the contact of water . The first permanently elastic fluid of this description which he examined , was the muriatic acid ; he ...
หน้า 65
... metal reflect both heat and light , but that both are absorbed by a surface covered with lamp black ; and that the direction of radi- ant heat is not diverted by a current of air . DISS . III . I him " as the brightest ornament of human ...
... metal reflect both heat and light , but that both are absorbed by a surface covered with lamp black ; and that the direction of radi- ant heat is not diverted by a current of air . DISS . III . I him " as the brightest ornament of human ...
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หน้า 31 - Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the phenomena of nature?
หน้า 258 - As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
หน้า 408 - The warp was placed perpendicularly ; the reed fell with a force of at least half a hundred weight ; and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket ; in short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time.
หน้า 408 - Now you will not assert, gentlemen/ said I, ' that it is more difficult to construct a machine that shall weave, than one which shall make all the variety of moves which are required in that complicated game.
หน้า 387 - Every workman has a great quan- 15 tity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for ; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what comes to the same thing, for the price of a 20 great quantity of theirs.
หน้า 31 - I do not here consider. What I call attraction may be performed by impulse, or by some other means unknown to me. I use that Word here to signify only in general any Force by which Bodies tend towards one another, whatsoever be the Cause.
หน้า 66 - I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it, and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more than I can well express was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame...
หน้า 408 - ... three movements, which were to follow each other in succession, there would be little difficulty in producing and repeating them. Full of these ideas, I immediately employed a carpenter and smith to carry them into effect. As soon as the machine was finished, I got a weaver to put in the warp, which was of such materials as sailcloth is usually made of. To my great delight, a piece of cloth, such as it was, was the produce.
หน้า 336 - Glory is the reward of science ; and those who deserve it scorn all meaner views.
หน้า 135 - Call you that desperate, which by a line Of institution, from our ancestors, Hath been derived down to us, and received In a succession, for the noblest way Of breeding up our youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman...