On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man: Principally with Reference to the Supply of His Wants, and the Exercise of His Intellectual FacultiesWilliam Pickering, 1833 - 375 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xv
... Heat . 95 IV . The general Uses of Water 107 V. Baths 112 VI . The Fluidity of Water .. 118 VII . The natural Sources of Water 123 VIII . The Air of the Atmosphere , as connected with Respiration .. 126 IX . Effects of the Motion of the ...
... Heat . 95 IV . The general Uses of Water 107 V. Baths 112 VI . The Fluidity of Water .. 118 VII . The natural Sources of Water 123 VIII . The Air of the Atmosphere , as connected with Respiration .. 126 IX . Effects of the Motion of the ...
الصفحة xvi
... Heat , Water , and Air . . . . . 286 III . Opinions of the Ancients on the Organization and Classification of Animals . . . . 298 IV . On those Animal Forms called Monsters , or Lusus Naturæ .. 334 CHAP . XI . CONCLUSION . 339 APPENDIX ...
... Heat , Water , and Air . . . . . 286 III . Opinions of the Ancients on the Organization and Classification of Animals . . . . 298 IV . On those Animal Forms called Monsters , or Lusus Naturæ .. 334 CHAP . XI . CONCLUSION . 339 APPENDIX ...
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... heat and electricity . But all these , though of so subtle a substance , are in their occasional effects the most powerful agents of nature . For , omit- ting the consideration of their silent but wonder- ful operation , as exhibited in ...
... heat and electricity . But all these , though of so subtle a substance , are in their occasional effects the most powerful agents of nature . For , omit- ting the consideration of their silent but wonder- ful operation , as exhibited in ...
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... heat ; on the one hand , the natural process of animal decomposition arrested by its abstraction , so that the imbedded mam- moth remains at this moment in the same state that it was four thousand years ago ; and in which , under the ...
... heat ; on the one hand , the natural process of animal decomposition arrested by its abstraction , so that the imbedded mam- moth remains at this moment in the same state that it was four thousand years ago ; and in which , under the ...
الصفحة 31
... the most im- portant of those privileges which the hand im- parts to man . With this he weaves the gar- " ment that protects him from the summer's 66 " heat , or winter's cold ; with this he CONSIDERED AS A CORPOREAL ORGAN . 31.
... the most im- portant of those privileges which the hand im- parts to man . With this he weaves the gar- " ment that protects him from the summer's 66 " heat , or winter's cold ; with this he CONSIDERED AS A CORPOREAL ORGAN . 31.
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