The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 9James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1870 |
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... light , raising and thinning those that are dense . Herschel ascribed to this influence the tendency of the full moon to clear the sky , which proverbs assert , and sailors and peasants believe in ; and although an astronomical ob ...
... light , raising and thinning those that are dense . Herschel ascribed to this influence the tendency of the full moon to clear the sky , which proverbs assert , and sailors and peasants believe in ; and although an astronomical ob ...
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... light possesses perceptible warmth has been a point of anxious and tentative inquiry among astronomers and phy- sicists for a century and a half at least . The first observer who recorded a trial of it was , I believe , Geminiano ...
... light possesses perceptible warmth has been a point of anxious and tentative inquiry among astronomers and phy- sicists for a century and a half at least . The first observer who recorded a trial of it was , I believe , Geminiano ...
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... light of the full moon , and , to quote the observer's words , " the liquid began immediately to sink , and in half a minute was depressed eight degrees , when it became stationary . On placing a screen between the mirror and the moon ...
... light of the full moon , and , to quote the observer's words , " the liquid began immediately to sink , and in half a minute was depressed eight degrees , when it became stationary . On placing a screen between the mirror and the moon ...
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... light without heat , Melloni sought to disprove the similar idea sometimes entertained with regard to the light of the moon . The pile he employed was formed of thirty - eight pairs of bis- muth and antimony bars , soldered together at ...
... light without heat , Melloni sought to disprove the similar idea sometimes entertained with regard to the light of the moon . The pile he employed was formed of thirty - eight pairs of bis- muth and antimony bars , soldered together at ...
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... light 3,000 instead of 6,000 times , and making a further allowance for the proportion of the pile - face covered by the moon's image , Forbes concluded it as improbable that the direct light of the moon would raise a thermometer one ...
... light 3,000 instead of 6,000 times , and making a further allowance for the proportion of the pile - face covered by the moon's image , Forbes concluded it as improbable that the direct light of the moon would raise a thermometer one ...
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Página 167 - It would thus appear that the habit is not an instinct, belonging by inheritance to the whole species, but is in each case the result of individual experience. As with the same experience some bees have acquired the habit and others have not, we must admit not only that these insects are intelligent, but that they differ from each other in their degrees of intelligence, some being slow in acquiring knowledge, others quicker.
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