Nature, Volume 27Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1883 - Electronic journals |
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Page 317 - Le second, de diviser chacune des difficultés que j'examinerais en autant de parcelles qu'il se pourrait et qu'il serait requis pour les mieux résoudre. Le troisième, de conduire par ordre mes pensées, en commençant par les objets les plus simples et les plus, aisés à connaître, pour monter peu à peu comme par degrés jusques à la connaissance des plus composés, et supposant même de l'ordre entre ceux qui ne se précèdent point naturellement les uns les autres.
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Page 224 - Our readers possibly may smile at our ignorance ; but we care not, so that the sincerity and truth of our statement be not suspected. The Tree of the Ten Thousand Images seemed to us of great age. Its trunk, which three men could scarcely embrace with outstretched arms, is not more than eight feet high; the branches, instead of shooting up, spread out in the shape of a plume of feathers, and are extremely bushy; few of them are dead. The leaves are always green, and the wood, which is of a reddish...
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Page 10 - As I never make the least secret of anything that I observe, I mentioned this experiment also, as well as those with the mercurius calcinatus, and the red precipitate, to all my philosophical acquaintances at Paris, and elsewhere; having no idea, at that time, to what these remarkable facts would lead.
Page 10 - I was confirmed in my conclusion, that the air extracted from mercurius calcinatus, &c., was, at least, as good as common air; but I did not certainly conclude that it was any better ; because, though one mouse would live only a quarter of an hour in a given quantity of air, I knew it was not impossible but that another mouse might have lived in it half an hour...
Page 194 - Rowland, relates to the general equations of electromagnetic action, with application to a new theory of magnetic attractions and to the theory of the magnetic relation of the plane of polarisation of light.