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... Matter and Force . A piece of Chalk . Experimental illustrations of the modes of detecting the Composi- tion of the Sun and other Heavenly Bodies by the Spectrum . 1870. Liverpool ... Sir John Lubbock , Bart , M.P .. Savages . F.R.S. ...
... Matter and Force . A piece of Chalk . Experimental illustrations of the modes of detecting the Composi- tion of the Sun and other Heavenly Bodies by the Spectrum . 1870. Liverpool ... Sir John Lubbock , Bart , M.P .. Savages . F.R.S. ...
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... matter ; and to consider whether that action has been well cal- culated to utilize and develope the resources of the country for this end , and to favour the free development of the higher scientific education . That the Council be ...
... matter ; and to consider whether that action has been well cal- culated to utilize and develope the resources of the country for this end , and to favour the free development of the higher scientific education . That the Council be ...
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... matter of anxiety to the Superintendent , Mr. Stewart ; and as the Professorship of Natural Philosophy at Owens College , Manchester , became vacant about this time , he applied for the appointment and was successful in obtaining it ...
... matter of anxiety to the Superintendent , Mr. Stewart ; and as the Professorship of Natural Philosophy at Owens College , Manchester , became vacant about this time , he applied for the appointment and was successful in obtaining it ...
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... matter may be allowed to wait . But the other matters mentioned in these suggestions are , REPORT OF THE KEW COMMITTEE . lv.
... matter may be allowed to wait . But the other matters mentioned in these suggestions are , REPORT OF THE KEW COMMITTEE . lv.
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... matter . They have decided to bring the subject before the Russian Government , and have appointed a Com- mittee of their own Body , who have drawn up a careful Report containing valuable suggestions ; and they have deputed Professor ...
... matter . They have decided to bring the subject before the Russian Government , and have appointed a Com- mittee of their own Body , who have drawn up a careful Report containing valuable suggestions ; and they have deputed Professor ...
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Página lxxix - But the great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact...
Página lxxxiii - But expectation is permissible where belief is not ; and, if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter.
Página xviii - Committee two years in advance ; and the arrangements for it shall be entrusted to the Officers of the Association. General Committee. The General Committee shall sit during the week of the Meeting, or longer, to transact the business of the Association. It shall consist of the following persons : — CLASS A.
Página 255 - D. Brewster, Reports respecting the Two Series of Hourly Meteorological Observations kept in Scotland ; — Report on the subject of a series of Resolutions adopted by the British Association at their Meeting in August 1838, at Newcastle ; — R.
Página 2 - The Gods, who haunt The lucid interspace of world and world, Where never creeps a cloud, or moves a wind, Nor ever falls the least white star of snow, Nor ever lowest roll of thunder moans, Nor sound of human sorrow mounts to mar Their sacred everlasting calm!
Página lxxxviii - There can be no reason, then, for doubting that, among insects, contagious and infectious diseases of great malignity are caused by minute organisms which are produced from pre-existing germs, or by homogenesis ; and there is no reason, that I know of, for believing that what happens in insects may not take place in the highest animals. Indeed, there is already strong evidence that some diseases of an extremely malignant and fatal character, to which man is subject, are as much the work of minute...
Página 257 - CONTENTS : — Seventh Report of a Committee appointed to conduct the Cooperation of the British Association in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical and Meteorological Observations ; — Lt.-Col.
Página lxxxix - And thus mankind will have one more admonition that " the people perish for lack of knowledge ;" and that the alleviation of the miseries, and the promotion of the welfare, of men must be sought, by those who will not lose their pains, in that diligent, patient, loving study of all the nmltitudinous aspects of Nature, the results of which constitute exact knowledge, or Science.
Página lxxxiii - ... and this hole is soldered up when all the air in the case has been replaced by steam. By this method they may be kept for years, without putrefying, fermenting or getting mouldy. Now this is not because oxygen is excluded, inasmuch as it is now proved that free oxygen is not necessary for either fermentation or putrefaction. It is not because the tins are exhausted of air, for Vibriones and Bacteria live, as Pasteur has shown, without air or free oxygen.
Página 173 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx stone.