Report of the Annual Meeting, المجلد 31Office of the British Association, 1862 |
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الصفحة lii
... greater than those of the few , there is a more vigorous struggle against the natural limitations of supply , a more careful husbanding of resources , and there are more minds at work . This fact is strikingly exemplified in the history ...
... greater than those of the few , there is a more vigorous struggle against the natural limitations of supply , a more careful husbanding of resources , and there are more minds at work . This fact is strikingly exemplified in the history ...
الصفحة lvi
... greater depths , we should reach at two and a half miles from the surface - strata at the tempera- ture of boiling water ; and at depths of about fifty or sixty miles the tem- perature would be sufficient to melt , under the ordinary ...
... greater depths , we should reach at two and a half miles from the surface - strata at the tempera- ture of boiling water ; and at depths of about fifty or sixty miles the tem- perature would be sufficient to melt , under the ordinary ...
الصفحة lvii
... greater than that of the superficial sedimentary beds . Other modes of investigation which Mr. Hopkins has brought to bear on this question appear to lead to the conclusion that the thickness of the earth's crust is much greater even ...
... greater than that of the superficial sedimentary beds . Other modes of investigation which Mr. Hopkins has brought to bear on this question appear to lead to the conclusion that the thickness of the earth's crust is much greater even ...
الصفحة lix
... greater advantages in our intercourse with distant nations . I will not here enter upon the subject of the numerous improvements which have so rapidly advanced the progress of this important service . Suffice it to observe that the ...
... greater advantages in our intercourse with distant nations . I will not here enter upon the subject of the numerous improvements which have so rapidly advanced the progress of this important service . Suffice it to observe that the ...
الصفحة lxiii
... greater power can be worked , whilst the range and precision of fire are at the same time increased . But these improvements cannot be confined to ourselves . Other nations are increasing the power and range of their artillery in a ...
... greater power can be worked , whilst the range and precision of fire are at the same time increased . But these improvements cannot be confined to ourselves . Other nations are increasing the power and range of their artillery in a ...
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة xvii - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
الصفحة 25 - It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life, without an overruling creative power ; and, therefore, no conclusions of dynamical science regarding the future condition of the earth can be held to give dispiriting views as to the destiny of the race of intelligent beings by which it is at present inhabited.
الصفحة xli - That the gentlemen whose names are appended be requested to act as a Committee (with power to add to their number) for the purpose of carrying out the previous resolution and of reporting to an adjourned public meeting to be held during the second week in October next.
الصفحة 131 - The German and Irish millions, like the Negro, have a great deal of guano in their destiny. They are ferried over the Atlantic and carted over America, to ditch and to drudge, to make corn cheap and then to lie down prematurely to make a spot of green grass on the prairie.
الصفحة 102 - I conclude further, that the dark lines of the solar spectrum which are not evoked by the atmosphere of the earth, exist in consequence of the presence, in the incandescent atmosphere of the sun, of those substances which in the spectrum of a flame produce bright lines at the same place.
الصفحة lxiii - When it is considered that stone bridges do not exceed 200 feet in span, nor cast-iron bridges 250 feet, we can estimate the progress which has been made in crossing rivers 400 or 500 feet in width, without any support at the middle of the stream. Even spans, greatly in excess of this, may be bridged over with safety, provided we do not exceed 1800 to 2000 feet, when the structure would be destroyed by its own weight.
الصفحة liii - Newton to introduce, at a later period, the idea of an attraction varying directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance, and thus to reduce celestial phenomena to tho greatest simplicity, by comprehending them under a single law.
الصفحة lxv - Wray's compound and pure gutta-percha far surpass the commercial gutta-percha hitherto employed; but it remains to be seen whether the mechanical and commercial difficulties in the employment of these new materials can be successfully overcome. The external protecting covering is still a subject of anxious consideration. The objections to iron wire are its weight and liability to corrosion. Hemp has been substituted, but at present with no satisfactory result. All these difficulties, together with...
الصفحة 149 - This formula is submitted at present temporarily as being accurate enough for use for ordinary practical purposes for the measurement of water by notches similar to the one experimented on, and for quantities of water limited to nearly the same range as those in the experiments ; but...
الصفحة 101 - In the atmosphere around the sun, therefore, there must be present vapour of sodium, which, according to the mechanical explanation thus suggested, being particularly opaque for light of that quality prevents such of it as is emitted from the sun from penetrating to any considerable distance through the surrounding atmosphere.