The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography, Literature, Natural History, and Biography ...Charles Frederick Partington Wm. S. Orr and Company, 1838 |
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الصفحة xi
... invention for making clocks and watches repeat the hour at pleasure . But , when the novelty had subsided , few British artists of eminence occupied themselves about it ; while , in France , it became a study among the most ingenious ...
... invention for making clocks and watches repeat the hour at pleasure . But , when the novelty had subsided , few British artists of eminence occupied themselves about it ; while , in France , it became a study among the most ingenious ...
الصفحة xii
... invention goes as far back as 1656. Lastly , he taught how to correct the imperfec- tion of a pendulum , by making it vibrate between cycloidal cheeks , in consequence of which its vibrations , whether great or small , became not ...
... invention goes as far back as 1656. Lastly , he taught how to correct the imperfec- tion of a pendulum , by making it vibrate between cycloidal cheeks , in consequence of which its vibrations , whether great or small , became not ...
الصفحة xix
... invention which has been known in Europe , and occasionally employed in Asia , for the last 400 years . We may , however , quote a description of one of these sailing carriages from an old work on physics , which will furnish a ...
... invention which has been known in Europe , and occasionally employed in Asia , for the last 400 years . We may , however , quote a description of one of these sailing carriages from an old work on physics , which will furnish a ...
الصفحة xxvii
... invention , or check the generous emulation to excel . We ought not , however , to allow our admiration of the antique to transport us too far , or to blind us to the faults which appear even in the statues of Greece and Rome , while we ...
... invention , or check the generous emulation to excel . We ought not , however , to allow our admiration of the antique to transport us too far , or to blind us to the faults which appear even in the statues of Greece and Rome , while we ...
الصفحة xxviii
... inventions . There is , however , some difference between the ancient and modern air - guns . In that of Ctesibius , for ... invention of the air - pump is the most important feature in the history of pneuma- tics , and Otto Guericke has ...
... inventions . There is , however , some difference between the ancient and modern air - guns . In that of Ctesibius , for ... invention of the air - pump is the most important feature in the history of pneuma- tics , and Otto Guericke has ...
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الصفحة 122 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
الصفحة 123 - The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her. inspiring mantle over me.
الصفحة 164 - He formed them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces...
الصفحة xliv - I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
الصفحة xliv - ... and that could we draw aside the mysterious curtain which shrouds it from our senses, we might there see a theatre of as many wonders as astronomy has unfolded, a universe within the compass of a point so small, as to elude all the powers of the microscope, but where the wonder-working God finds room for the exercise of all his attributes, where he can raise another mechanism of worlds, and fill and animate them all with the evidences of his glory.
الصفحة 88 - Naples, at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, the history of which, however, is obscure.
الصفحة 224 - ... the sides smooth previous to putting in the pipe. This chisel is attached to rods and to the handle, as before described, and in its descent the workmen continually walk round, by which the hole is made smooth and cylindrical.
الصفحة 225 - Brails is likewise a name given to all the ropes employed to haul up the bottoms, lower corners and skirts of the great sails in general. The operation of drawing them together is called brailmg them up, or hauling them up to the brails.
الصفحة 151 - I have seen double and treble nebulae variously arranged; large ones with small, seeming attendants ; narrow, but much extended lucid nebulae or bright dashes; some of the shape of a fan, resembling an electric brush issuing from a lucid point; others of the cometic shape, with a seeming nucleus in the centre, or like cloudy stars surrounded with a nebulous atmosphere. A different sort, again...