The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention, Volumen8Werner Company, 1907 |
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... kind of electricity was invariably produced by the friction of the same electric , —that glass , for example , yielded aways vitreous , and amber always resinous electricity . Having roughened a glass tube by grinding its surface with ...
... kind of electricity was invariably produced by the friction of the same electric , —that glass , for example , yielded aways vitreous , and amber always resinous electricity . Having roughened a glass tube by grinding its surface with ...
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... kind of apparatus . Fizeau , who added the condenser ( 1853 , ) Foucault , who designed the interrupter which bears his name ( 1855 , ) and Ritchie , who devised the plan of dividing the coil into sections by insu- lating partitions ...
... kind of apparatus . Fizeau , who added the condenser ( 1853 , ) Foucault , who designed the interrupter which bears his name ( 1855 , ) and Ritchie , who devised the plan of dividing the coil into sections by insu- lating partitions ...
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... kind between them . The introduction of a rational system of unitation , based on the fundamental units of time , mass , and length , was one of the greatest steps of our time . The impulse came from the famous memoir of Gauss ...
... kind between them . The introduction of a rational system of unitation , based on the fundamental units of time , mass , and length , was one of the greatest steps of our time . The impulse came from the famous memoir of Gauss ...
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... kind of electrification as we please , and pass on to consider the data of experiment regarding the distri- bution of statical electricity in conducting bodies . We are thus at the very outset brought face to face with the idea of ...
... kind of electrification as we please , and pass on to consider the data of experiment regarding the distri- bution of statical electricity in conducting bodies . We are thus at the very outset brought face to face with the idea of ...
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... kind occurs . We can find the distribution on a spherical with given conductor influenced by given forces , such for Sphere force . instance as would arise from rigidly electrified bodies in the neighborhood . The method of procedure ...
... kind occurs . We can find the distribution on a spherical with given conductor influenced by given forces , such for Sphere force . instance as would arise from rigidly electrified bodies in the neighborhood . The method of procedure ...
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Página 130 - ... midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman...
Página 144 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Página 123 - Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Página 185 - It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.
Página 143 - ... chattel, money( or valuable security which shall be delivered to or received or taken into possession by him for or in the name or on the account of his master...
Página 122 - And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Página 231 - The power and jurisdiction of parliament, says Sir Edward Coke, is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined. either for causes or persons, within any bounds.
Página 231 - ... It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal: this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Página 123 - And it came to pass, as they still went on and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Página 188 - To each one according to his capacity, to each capacity according to its works.