Science in Sport Made Philosophy in Earnest ; Being an Attempt to Illustrate Some Elementary Principles of Physical Knoweldge by Means of Toys and Pastimes. Edited by Robert Routledge1877 - 332 pages |
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... colours - Effects of contrast in colours - How these were observed by a painter and by a poet - Colours of ladies ' head - dresses - The village Esculapius - Symbolism of colours in Christian art - Stories of blind persons distinguishing ...
... colours - Effects of contrast in colours - How these were observed by a painter and by a poet - Colours of ladies ' head - dresses - The village Esculapius - Symbolism of colours in Christian art - Stories of blind persons distinguishing ...
Page xv
... colours of thin films — A splendid plate - The tensions in thin films - A pretty experiment in illustration - Making iron swim- Curious movements of a fragment of camphor - Capillary attraction— The friendly and the unfriendly corks ...
... colours of thin films — A splendid plate - The tensions in thin films - A pretty experiment in illustration - Making iron swim- Curious movements of a fragment of camphor - Capillary attraction— The friendly and the unfriendly corks ...
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... coloured glass to form the objects . Here I have in my pocket - book the sketch you gave of the arrange- ment of the pieces of glass painted black on the outside . " Tom produced the drawing which is shown in Fig . 13 , where A B ...
... coloured glass to form the objects . Here I have in my pocket - book the sketch you gave of the arrange- ment of the pieces of glass painted black on the outside . " Tom produced the drawing which is shown in Fig . 13 , where A B ...
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... coloured jets of water fall from a height into a basin below ; but as your brothers and sisters did not witness the exhibition , I must show them a cut which will convey some notion of the appearance of the illuminated cas- cade ...
... coloured jets of water fall from a height into a basin below ; but as your brothers and sisters did not witness the exhibition , I must show them a cut which will convey some notion of the appearance of the illuminated cas- cade ...
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... colour . " The light which entered the end , if I might so call it , of the descending jet of water , was reflected from side to side of the column in a way which you will now quite understand from this diagram ( Fig . 18 ) , where I ...
... colour . " The light which entered the end , if I might so call it , of the descending jet of water , was reflected from side to side of the column in a way which you will now quite understand from this diagram ( Fig . 18 ) , where I ...
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Page 223 - They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 97 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Page 84 - What might this be? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Page 114 - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy ! Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage or kindle soft desire.
Page 141 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state.
Page 243 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 151 - Newton generalized the law of attraction into a statement that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them; and he thence deduced the law of attraction for spherical shells of constant density.
Page 219 - Rolls fair and placid : where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower.
Page 270 - My eyes are dim with childish tears. My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Page 254 - The first tyme that he, the prince, went to the towne of Sterling to meete the king, seeing a little without the gate of the towne a stack of corne, in proportion not unlike to a topp, wherewith he used to play, he said to some that were with him. ' Loe there is a goodly topp :' whereupon one of them saying, ' Why doe you not play with it then ?' he answered, ' Set it up for me, and I will play with it.