Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Enlarged and ImprovedA. Constable, 1824 |
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... fluids had been treated of by Newton in the second book of the Principia , and he had investigated a great number of curious and important propositions relative to its effects . He had considered some of the simpler laws of resistance ...
... fluids had been treated of by Newton in the second book of the Principia , and he had investigated a great number of curious and important propositions relative to its effects . He had considered some of the simpler laws of resistance ...
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... fluids , were also experimentally investigated ; and the barometer , after the ingenuity of Pascal had proved that the mercury stood lower the higher up into the atmosphere the instrument was carried , was at length brought to be a ...
... fluids , were also experimentally investigated ; and the barometer , after the ingenuity of Pascal had proved that the mercury stood lower the higher up into the atmosphere the instrument was carried , was at length brought to be a ...
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... fluid in which it is immersed , was made about this time . The differences of temperature were thus subjected to exact measurement ; the phenomena of heat became , of course , known with more certainty and precision ; and that substance ...
... fluid in which it is immersed , was made about this time . The differences of temperature were thus subjected to exact measurement ; the phenomena of heat became , of course , known with more certainty and precision ; and that substance ...
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... fluid between the glasses was different from air , as when it was water , the succession of rings was the same ; the ... fluid which pervades , adorns , and enlightens the world . But the same experiments led to some new and unexpected ...
... fluid between the glasses was different from air , as when it was water , the succession of rings was the same ; the ... fluid which pervades , adorns , and enlightens the world . But the same experiments led to some new and unexpected ...
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... fluid . It is true that Huygens deduced from this last hypothesis an explanation of the law of refraction , on which considerable praise was bestowed in the former part of this Dissertation . It is undoubtedly very ingenious , but does ...
... fluid . It is true that Huygens deduced from this last hypothesis an explanation of the law of refraction , on which considerable praise was bestowed in the former part of this Dissertation . It is undoubtedly very ingenious , but does ...
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Seite 32 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Seite 272 - And the United States hereby renounce forever, any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, or cure fish on, or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Seite 272 - Newfoundland hereabove described, and of the coast of Labrador ; but so soon as the same, or any portion thereof shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such portion so settled, without previous agreement for such purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Seite 15 - Besides this, there is another connexion of ideas wholly owing to chance or custom : ideas that in themselves are not at all of kin, come to be so united in some men's minds that it is very hard to separate them ; they always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time comes into the understanding, but its associate appears with it; and if they are more than two which are thus united, the whole gang, always inseparable, show themselves together.
Seite 83 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Seite 64 - ... the squares of the periodic times are as the cubes of the distances from the common centre, the centripetal forces will be inversely as the squares of the distances.
Seite 255 - The British Society for extending the Fisheries and improving the Sea Coasts of the Kingdom...
Seite 163 - The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia, collected from the Observations of John Abbot, with the Plants on which they Feed.
Seite 364 - His superiority was never felt, but in the instruction which he imparted, or in the attention which his generous preference usually directed to the more obscure members of the company. The simplicity of his manners was far from excluding that perfect urbanity and amenity which flowed still more from the mildness of his nature, than from familiar intercourse with the most polished society of Europe.
Seite 280 - It is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, but contracts at both ends.