Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

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Gould and Lincoln., 1861
 

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Página 83 - Why the Shoe Pinches. A contribution to Applied Anatomy. By HERMANN MEYER, MD, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Zurich. Translated from the German by JOHN STIRLING CRAIG, LRCPE, LRCSE Fcap., sewed, 6d.
Página 133 - I believe I represent the received idea of the gravitating force aright in saying that it is a simple attractive force exerted between any two or all the particles or masses of matter, at every sensible distance, but with a strength varying inversely as the square of the distance.
Página vi - Sun, by the fall of meteoric matter ; but however this may be, it is a remarkable circumstance, that the observations at Kew show that on the very day, and at the very hour and minute of this unexpected and curious phenomenon, a moderate but marked magnetic disturbance took place ; and a storm or great disturbance of the magnetic elements occurred four hours after midnight, extending to the southern hemisphere.
Página vii - ... feet above the level of the Somme. Changes therefore in the physical geography of the country, comprising both the filling up with sediment and drift and the partial re-excavation of the valley, have happened since old river-beds were at some former period the receptacles of the worked flints. The number of these last, already computed at above...
Página 208 - The first dose is always followed by slight symptoms of poisoning, such as burning pain in the stomach and sickness, but not very severe. Once begun it can only be left off by very gradually diminishing the daily dose, as a sudden cessation causes sickness, burning pains in the stomach, and other symptoms of poisoning, very speedily followed by death.
Página 143 - Since the year 1790, the occasional study of botany obliged me to attend more to colours than before. With respect to colours that were white, yellow, or green, I readily assented to the appropriate term. Blue, purple, pink and crimson appeared rather less distinguishable ; being, according to my idea, all referable to blue. I have often seriously asked a person whether a flower was blue or pink, but was generally considered to be in jest.
Página 345 - FUNGI. OUTLINES OF BRITISH FUNGOLOGY, containing Characters of above a Thousand Species of Fungi, and a Complete List of all that have been described as Natives of the British Isles. By the Rev. MJ BERKELEY, MA, FLS Demy 8vo, 484 pp., 24 Coloured Plates, 30*. Although entitled simply 'Outlines...
Página 111 - The light has never gone out through any deficiency or cause in the engine and machine house ; and when it has become extinguished in the lantern, a single touch of the keeper's hand has set it shining as bright as ever. The light shone up and down the Channel, and across into France, with a power far surpassing that of any other fixed light within sight, or anywhere existent. The experiment has been a good one.
Página 321 - ... calculated to inspire us with grateful admiration. The development of Archaeology has been very similar to that of Geology. Not long ago we should have smiled at the idea of reconstructing the bygone days of our race previous to the beginning of history properly so called. The void was partly filled up by representing that ante-historical antiquity as having been only of short duration, and partly by exaggerating the value and' the age of those vague and confused notions which constitute tradition.
Página 326 - I infer that a tribe of savages, to whom the use of iron was unknown, made a long sojourn in this region ; and I am reminded of a large Indian mound which I saw in St.

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