Quarterly Journal of Science: 1874, Volume 11John Churchill and Sons, 1874 |
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... surface is due to the pressure of the Jovian atmosphere producing liquefaction . There would , however , be more probably continuity of change from the vapourous to the liquid condition . I do 16 [ January , The Saturnian System .
... surface is due to the pressure of the Jovian atmosphere producing liquefaction . There would , however , be more probably continuity of change from the vapourous to the liquid condition . I do 16 [ January , The Saturnian System .
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... pressure to solid materials ) that there can be cavernous openings in the interior of these vast globes . Under enormous pressure , solids , even such solids as iron , gold , and platinum , are perfectly plastic . They run like fluids ...
... pressure to solid materials ) that there can be cavernous openings in the interior of these vast globes . Under enormous pressure , solids , even such solids as iron , gold , and platinum , are perfectly plastic . They run like fluids ...
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... pressures to which the greater part of their mass would be subjected ) we should find their mean density very much greater . Since , on the contrary , they are of very small mean density compared with the earth , we are driven from the ...
... pressures to which the greater part of their mass would be subjected ) we should find their mean density very much greater . Since , on the contrary , they are of very small mean density compared with the earth , we are driven from the ...
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... pressures due to gravity are far less even near the surface of these planets , and the distance from surface to centre , on which the amount of the increase of pressure beneath the surface depends , is very much less . But that the ...
... pressures due to gravity are far less even near the surface of these planets , and the distance from surface to centre , on which the amount of the increase of pressure beneath the surface depends , is very much less . But that the ...
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... pressures are exhibited ; the highest charge which can . VOL . IV . ( N.S. ) G be employed without these local pressures appearing should then be 1874. ] 41 British Artillery Matériel .
... pressures are exhibited ; the highest charge which can . VOL . IV . ( N.S. ) G be employed without these local pressures appearing should then be 1874. ] 41 British Artillery Matériel .
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Página 101 - ... without a parallel elsewhere: and this willingness requires but wise direction to enable you effectually to wipe away the reproach of De Tocqueville. Your most difficult problem will be not to build institutions but to discover men. You may erect laboratories and endow them; you may furnish them with all the appliances needed for...
Página 233 - ... •If we could view the universe as a candle not lit, then it is perhaps conceivable to regard it as having been always in existence ; but if we regard it rather as a candle that has been lit, we become absolutely certain that it cannot have been burning from eternity, and that a time will com* when it will cease to burn.
Página 86 - Wynne — their most minute accounts of what took place. To reject the recorded evidence on this subject is to reject all human testimony whatever ; for no fact in sacred or profane history is supported by a stronger array of proofs
Página 273 - ... that the rising of the pith was only due to currents of air, and that at this near approach to a vacuum the residual air was too highly rarefied to have power in its rising to overcome the inertia of the straw beam and the pith balls. A more delicate instrument would doubtless show traces of movement at a still nearer approach to a vacuum ; but it seemed evident that when the last trace of air had been removed from the tube surrounding the balance — when the balance was suspended in empty space...