The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 15James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1876 - Science |
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... action . Besides private cabins there is a commodious zoological workroom ( see Fig . 1 ) , a chemical and physical laboratory , and a dark room and working room for the photographers . The weight of the ship is so great that there can ...
... action . Besides private cabins there is a commodious zoological workroom ( see Fig . 1 ) , a chemical and physical laboratory , and a dark room and working room for the photographers . The weight of the ship is so great that there can ...
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... action of a very dilute acid , and he found that there remained , after the carbonate of lime had been removed , about one per cent . of a reddish mud , consisting of silica , alumina , and red oxide of iron . Now , as all sea - water ...
... action of a very dilute acid , and he found that there remained , after the carbonate of lime had been removed , about one per cent . of a reddish mud , consisting of silica , alumina , and red oxide of iron . Now , as all sea - water ...
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... action of winds upon its surface . Though admitting that the Polar water finds its way along the floor of the great ocean basin into the Equatorial area , he affirms that this is merely the reflux of the current which has been driven ...
... action of winds upon its surface . Though admitting that the Polar water finds its way along the floor of the great ocean basin into the Equatorial area , he affirms that this is merely the reflux of the current which has been driven ...
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... action in line of battle in great naval engagements ; and while fully available for the first of these purposes , the real object of the Inflexible is the last . There cannot be a doubt that she will be the most powerful man - of - war ...
... action in line of battle in great naval engagements ; and while fully available for the first of these purposes , the real object of the Inflexible is the last . There cannot be a doubt that she will be the most powerful man - of - war ...
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... action of the pebble powder is perfectly under control ; that by using the various sizes a greater or less velocity can be given to the shot , a greater or less strain brought to bear upon the gun . By means of Major Maitland's gas ...
... action of the pebble powder is perfectly under control ; that by using the various sizes a greater or less velocity can be given to the shot , a greater or less strain brought to bear upon the gun . By means of Major Maitland's gas ...
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Page 153 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 152 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 353 - Connected with the establishment of an university, or separate from it, might be undertaken the erection of an astronomical observatory, with provision for the support of an astronomer, to be in constant attendance of observation upon the phenomena of the heavens ; and for the periodical publication of his observations.
Page 150 - I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snow-flakes descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed ; yet to produce from aqueous...
Page 401 - The elephant is reckoned the slowest breeder of all known animals, and I have taken some pains to estimate its probable minimum rate of natural increase; it will be...
Page 353 - Europe there are existing upward of 130 of these light-houses of the skies, while throughout the whole American hemisphere there is not one. If we reflect a moment upon the discoveries which in the last four centuries have been made in the physical constitution of the universe by the means of these buildings and of observers stationed in them, shall we doubt of their usefulness to every nation? And while scarcely a year passes over our heads without bringing some new astronomical discovery to light,...
Page 400 - A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. Every being, which during its natural lifetime produces several eggs or seeds, must suffer destruction during some period of its...
Page 119 - In no single instance, on the other hand, did the air, which had been proved moteless by the searching beam, show itself to possess the least power of producing Bacterial life or the associated phenomena of putrefaction.
Page 400 - Hence, as more individuals are produced than can possibly survive, there must in every case be a struggle for existence, either one individual with another of the same species, or with the individuals of distinct species, or with the physical conditions of life.
Page 118 - ... then showed the air within it to be laden with floating matter. On the 13th it was again examined. Before the beam entered and after it quitted the case its track was vivid in the air, but within the case it vanished. Three days of quiet sufficed to cause all the floating matter to be deposited on the...