A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts, Band 1

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Taylor and Walton, 1845
 

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Laws of pressure included in those of motion Opposition of pressures
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Oblique ropes 53 Inclined plane Wedges 54 Props or shores Screws
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energy Preservation of energy or of ascending force 60 Effect of a blow
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effect of machines Experiments 67 Cautions with regard to the construction
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geometry Statics Passive strength Friction Drawing Outline 71 Pen
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LECTURE XI
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Mezzotinto Etching 92 Aqua tinta Musical characters Printing Copying
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of a labouring man 101 Temporary exertions Horses 102 Wind Water
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Fracture Strength Resilience 110 Effect of velocity Limit of strength
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Architecture Form of a column 121 Eddystone lighthouse Wall
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cathedral Pantheon Orders of architecture Gothic architecture 127 Carpen
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Kinds of wheels 136 Eccentric wheels Sun and planet wheels
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Paper
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Expansion of pendulums Compensations for clocks 153 Com
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Screws Cranes Walking wheels 160 Whites crane Weighing cranes Lewis
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LECTURE XIX
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Glaziers vice Wire drawing Pottery Glassblowing Percussion Forges
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Democritus Invention of the arch Archytas and Eudoxus
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of Syracuse 184 185 Athenæus Ctesibius 185 Vitruvius Middle ages
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LECTURE XXI
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on the bank of a river Pressure on a concave surface 200 Pressure of different
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Compressibility of liquids
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Effect of a short pipe Diverging pipe Experiments of Bernoulli Venturi
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Changes and flexures of rivers Lateral friction Venturis experiments 225 Ball
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ON HYDRAULIC PRESSURE
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LECTURE XXVI
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LECTURE XXVII
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Pitots tube Hydrometric fly Captain Hamiltons hydraulic register Motions
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Forcing pump Mixed pump Pistons Bramahs press Sucking pump
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Velocity of a blast 263 Ventilation Corn fan 264 Chimnies Furnaces
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powder Galileo Torricelli Castelli 277 Mariotte Guglielmini Guericke
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Correction on account of heat 290 Transmission in gases of different kinds
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ment Inversion of the image 351 Instinct Sensibility of the retina
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LECTURE XXXIX
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Uniformity of velocity Reflection and refraction 361 Partial
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LECTURE XL
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Euclid Ptolemy Alhazen Vitellio R Bacon Janson 375 Galileo
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LECTURE XLI
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Distances of the stars 390 Clusters or nebulae Arrangement of the stars
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Planets Ecliptics 400 Change of position of the ecliptic Nodes Keplerian
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force of gravity 410 Suns change of place Orbits of the planets Keplerian
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satellites Comets Light of the heavenly bodies 421 Planetary worlds Fon
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Hadleys quadrant Declinations Refraction and parallax Latitudes
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plumb line Ellipticity 435 Measurements of degrees Zones 436 Climates
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Particular modifications 445 Tides of the channels and of rivers Inferior
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Arabians Persians Copernicus 456 Tycho Brahe Kepler
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Extract from Pemberton 459 British astronomers Observatory at Greenwich
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tion Essential and accidental properties of matter Extension Divisibility
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repulsion Inertia 470 Gravitation Cause of gravitation Mathematical con
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by heat 474 Liquidity Superficial cohesion 475 Bubbles Form of the surface
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Effect of velocity Pictets experiments Heat from combustion 486 Com
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Vibrations Mechanical effects of vibrations 502 Chemical effects Comparison
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tric fluid Its attractions and repulsions 508 Conductors and nonconductors
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Perforation of a jar Direction of the motion Opinions respecting
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Theory of the pile Efficacy of decomposable substances Electrical machines
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Magnetical substances 532 Aurora borealis North and South poles Attrac
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Variation of the declination Line of no declination Dip 536 Artificial mag
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ON CLIMATES AND WINDS
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Immediate effects of the sun Prévosts calculations Variations
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Precipitation Moisture Mediterranean 552 Currents
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of animals and vegetables 566 Description of a vegetable Germination
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LECTURE LIX
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Amphibia Fishes Insects 575 Vermes 576 Senses Nutrition 577 Ner
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face p 194
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