Nature, Volume 94Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1915 - Electronic journals |
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... given of the subject , indeed , we know of no American publication that deals better with it . The author has rightly made liberal use of the admirable series of in- vestigations conducted at Rhode Island during the term of his ...
... given of the subject , indeed , we know of no American publication that deals better with it . The author has rightly made liberal use of the admirable series of in- vestigations conducted at Rhode Island during the term of his ...
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... given in avoiding the difficulties . Again , whilst the Petrol- eum Act regulations for testing the flashing point of burning oil ( which is of minor importance as a fuel ) are quoted in extenso , the flash point of heavier oils ( those ...
... given in avoiding the difficulties . Again , whilst the Petrol- eum Act regulations for testing the flashing point of burning oil ( which is of minor importance as a fuel ) are quoted in extenso , the flash point of heavier oils ( those ...
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... given drainage area be plotted against the rain- fall for the corresponding period , the points generally are distributed in a haphazard manner , and there is difficulty in drawing a simple curve -- usually assumed to be a straight line ...
... given drainage area be plotted against the rain- fall for the corresponding period , the points generally are distributed in a haphazard manner , and there is difficulty in drawing a simple curve -- usually assumed to be a straight line ...
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... given to man . So may we clear the fair name of science of the false charge of materialism that is so often brought against it by those who do not know and judge science purely by mechanical inventions . Next let us consider the ...
... given to man . So may we clear the fair name of science of the false charge of materialism that is so often brought against it by those who do not know and judge science purely by mechanical inventions . Next let us consider the ...
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... given in a state of uncertainty as to what he has really done . Principles of Metallurgy . By A. H. Hiorns . Second edition . Pp . xiv + 389. ( London : Mac- millan and Co. , Ltd. , 1914. ) Price 6s . IT is almost twenty years since the ...
... given in a state of uncertainty as to what he has really done . Principles of Metallurgy . By A. H. Hiorns . Second edition . Pp . xiv + 389. ( London : Mac- millan and Co. , Ltd. , 1914. ) Price 6s . IT is almost twenty years since the ...
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Page 29 - Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page 83 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
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Page 3 - ... indication of a difference between the physical nature of the suboceanic and sub-continental parts of the crust is in rough correspondence with the conclusions previously suggested on quite other grounds. In...
Page 35 - Purely untutored humanity, it is true, interferes comparatively little with the arrangements of nature, and the destructive agency of man becomes more and more energetic and unsparing as he advances in civilization, until the impoverishment, with which his exhaustion of the natural resources of the soil is threatening him, at last awakens him to the necessity of preserving what is left, if not of restoring what has been wantonly wasted.
Page 248 - Instead of the circular hole, 'tis better to substitute an oblong hole, shaped like a long parallelogram, with its length parallel to the prism. For if this hole be an inch or two long and but a tenth or twentieth part of an inch broad or narrower, the light of the image will be as simple as before, or simpler, and the image will become much broader and therefore more fit to have experiments tried in its light than before.
Page 37 - Walbrook, and so into the Thames. And by these degrees was this fen or moor at length made main and hard ground, which before being overgrown with flags, sedges, and rushes, served to no use...
Page 43 - My first child was born on December 27th, 1839, and I at once commenced to make notes on the first dawn of the various expressions which he exhibited, for I felt convinced, even at this early period, that the most complex and fine shades of expression must all have had a gradual and natural origin.