Conversations on Natural Philosophy: In which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly ExplainedJohn Grigg, 1826 - 220 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 78
... darkness , it is night . Our earth , which we consider as a planet , is 24 hours in performing one revolution on its axis ; in that period of time , therefore , we have a day and a night ; hence this revolution is called the earth's ...
... darkness , it is night . Our earth , which we consider as a planet , is 24 hours in performing one revolution on its axis ; in that period of time , therefore , we have a day and a night ; hence this revolution is called the earth's ...
الصفحة 79
... dark bodies , should shine ; concluding , that since the sun does not illumine themselves , the whole universe must be in darkness . Caroline . I confess that I was one of these ignorant people ; but I am now very sensible of the ...
... dark bodies , should shine ; concluding , that since the sun does not illumine themselves , the whole universe must be in darkness . Caroline . I confess that I was one of these ignorant people ; but I am now very sensible of the ...
الصفحة 84
... dark her silver mantle threw . The planet next to Venus is the Earth , of which we shall soon speak at full length . At present I shall only observe that we are 95 millions of miles distant from the sun , that we perform our annual ...
... dark her silver mantle threw . The planet next to Venus is the Earth , of which we shall soon speak at full length . At present I shall only observe that we are 95 millions of miles distant from the sun , that we perform our annual ...
الصفحة 100
... darkness . Caroline . That is very strange ; I never before heard that there was constant day or night in any part of the world ! How much happier the inhabitants of the north frigid zone must be than those of the southern ; the first ...
... darkness . Caroline . That is very strange ; I never before heard that there was constant day or night in any part of the world ! How much happier the inhabitants of the north frigid zone must be than those of the southern ; the first ...
الصفحة 101
... darkness , and the southern has uninterrupted day- light . Caroline . Then , after all , the sun which I thought so partial , confers his favours equally on all . Mrs. B. Not so either : the inhabitants of the torrid zone have much more ...
... darkness , and the southern has uninterrupted day- light . Caroline . Then , after all , the sun which I thought so partial , confers his favours equally on all . Mrs. B. Not so either : the inhabitants of the torrid zone have much more ...
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الصفحة 82 - Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for Beast and Bird, they to their grassy couch, these to their nests, were slunk, — all but the wakeful nightingale; she, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. Now...
الصفحة x - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
الصفحة 84 - Their names are Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces; the whole occupying a complete circle, or broad belt, in the heavens, called the zodiac, (plate 8.
الصفحة 64 - ... time that the axle describes a small one, therefore the power is increased in the same proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. If the velocity of the wheel is...
الصفحة 196 - The effect of a concave lens is, you know, exactly the reverse of a convex one: it renders parallel rays divergent, and those which are already divergent, still more so. By the assistance of such glasses, therefore, the rays from a distant object fall on the pupil, as divergent as those from a less distant object; and, with short-sighted people, they throw the image of a distant object back as far as the retina. Caroline. This is an excellent contrivance, indeed. Mrs.
الصفحة 67 - ... perfect smoothness or evenness in nature: polished metals, though they wear that appearance, more than any other bodies, are far from really possessing it; and their inequalities may frequently be perceived through a good magnifying glass. When, therefore, the surfaces of the two bodies come into contact, the prominent parts of the.
الصفحة 36 - ... is continually increased. When a stone falls from a height, the impulse which it receives from gravity during the first instant of its fall, would be sufficient to bring it to the ground with a uniform velocity : for, as we have observed, a body having been once acted...
الصفحة 73 - ... 1, 2, 3, 4, &c. all of which are of equal dimensions, though of very different forms ; some of them, you see, are long and narrow, others broad and short : but they each of them contain an equal quantity of space. An imaginary line drawn from the centre of the earth to that of the sun, and keeping pace with the earth in its revolution, passes over equal areas in equal times ; that is to say, if it is a month going from A to B, it will be a month going from B to C, and another from C to E, and...
الصفحة 50 - The curve-line which the ball has described, is called in geometry, a parabola; but when the ball is thrown perpendicularly upwards, it will descend perpendicularly ; because the force of projection, and that of gravity, are in the same line of direction. We have noticed the centres of magnitude, and of motion ; but I have not yet explained to you what is meant by the centre of gravity ; it is that point in a body, about which all the parts exactly balance each other ; if, therefore, that point is...
الصفحة 72 - A* (fig. 3.) its projectile force should not have given it a velocity sufficient to counterbalance that of gravity, so as to enable these powers conjointly to carry it round the sun in a circle; the earth, instead of describing the line AC, as in the former figure, will approach nearer the sun in the line A B.