 | 1829 - 500 páginas
...eighty parts, or degrees ; the freezing point being marked 0, or zero, and the boiling point eighty. The degrees are continued of the same size, below...these points ; those below being reckoned negative. REFLEXION (from the Latin reflecten, to bend back) is a term generally used in natural philosophy to... | |
 | 1829 - 522 páginas
...the freezing point being marked 0, or zero, and tlie boiling point eighty. The degrees are eontimied of the same size, below and above these points ; those below being reckoned negative. REFLEXION (from the Latin refléctete, to bend back) is a terra generally used in natural philosophy... | |
 | Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1841 - 314 páginas
...constructed by Celsius, and is employed in France ; it consists in an arrangement of the scale, in which the freezing point is marked 0, or zero, and the boiling point 100°. In Reaumur's thermometer, whidi is employed in the north of Germany, the freezing point i. marked... | |
 | Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1842 - 348 páginas
...zero, and the boiling point 100". In Reaumur's thermometer, which is employed in the north of Germany, the freezing point is marked 0, or zero, and the boiling...these points, those below being reckoned negative. A figure is added in the preceding page, showing the correspondence of the three thermometers with... | |
 | Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1842 - 332 páginas
...employed in France ; it consists n SOURCES OF STEAM POWER. 3 in an arrangement of the scale, in which the freezing point is marked 0, or zero, and the boiling point 100°. In Reaumur's thermometer, which is employed in the north of Germany, the freezing point is marked... | |
 | John Lee Comstock, Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1846 - 154 páginas
...constructed by Celsius, and is employed in France; it consists in an arrangement of the scale, in which the freezing point is marked 0, or zero, and the boiling point 100°. In Reaitmur's thermometer, which is employed m the north ol THE THERMOMETER. Germany, the freezing... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 páginas
...constructed by Celsius, and is employed in France; it consists in an arrangement of the scale, in which the freezing point is marked 0, or zero, and the boiling point 100°. In Reaumur's thermometer, which is employed in the north of Germany, the freezing point is marked... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1852 - 420 páginas
...indicated by Cel, for the name of the inventor. It consists of an arrangement of the scale, in which the freezing point is marked 0, or zero, and the boiling point is marked 100°. This is a more convenient scale than the other, the freezing and boiling points being... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1852 - 576 páginas
...indicated by Cel, for the name of the inventor. It consists of an arrangement of the scale, in which the freezing point is marked 0, or zero, and the boiling point is marked 100°. This is a more convenient scale than the other, the freezing and boiling points being... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - 1854 - 232 páginas
...In France the centigrade thermometer is used ; it consists in an arrangement of the scale, in which the freezing point is marked 0, or zero, and the boiling point 100°. In the north of Germany, Reaumur's thermometer is employed, the freezing point is marked 0,... | |
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In graduating a Centigrade thermometer, the freezing point is marked 0°, or zero, and the boiling point 100° ; the distance between the freezing and boiling points is divided into 100 equal parts; these equal divisions are carried as far below the freezing... 
