A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery: From the Time of the Greeks to the Present Day : for the Use of Schools and Young PersonsD. Appleton, 1886 - 467 páginas |
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... published in Lardner's ' Cyclopædia ' in 1834 , is scarcely intended for beginners , and does not extend farther than the seven- teenth century . This is the only work of the kind I have been able to find . of life and its conditions ...
... published in Lardner's ' Cyclopædia ' in 1834 , is scarcely intended for beginners , and does not extend farther than the seven- teenth century . This is the only work of the kind I have been able to find . of life and its conditions ...
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... publish his Work till quite the end of his Life - Work of Vesalius on Anatomy - He shows that Galen made many mistakes in describing Man's Structure - His Banishment and Death - The value of his Work to Science - Fallopius and ...
... publish his Work till quite the end of his Life - Work of Vesalius on Anatomy - He shows that Galen made many mistakes in describing Man's Structure - His Banishment and Death - The value of his Work to Science - Fallopius and ...
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... Changes going on now - Mud carried down by the Ganges - Eating away of Sea - coasts - Eruption of Skap- tar Jokul - Earthquake of Calabria - Rise and Fall of Land- CONTENTS . xxiii ' Principles of Geology ' published in xxil CONTENTS .
... Changes going on now - Mud carried down by the Ganges - Eating away of Sea - coasts - Eruption of Skap- tar Jokul - Earthquake of Calabria - Rise and Fall of Land- CONTENTS . xxiii ' Principles of Geology ' published in xxil CONTENTS .
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... published in 1830 - Louis Agassiz : his early life - De Saussure's Study of Glaciers - Agassiz on Europe and North America being once covered with Ice - Boucher de Perthes on Ancient Flint Implements - McEnery on Flint Im- plements in ...
... published in 1830 - Louis Agassiz : his early life - De Saussure's Study of Glaciers - Agassiz on Europe and North America being once covered with Ice - Boucher de Perthes on Ancient Flint Implements - McEnery on Flint Im- plements in ...
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... published by clever men , and were much more read than before ; and what was still more important , books about new discoveries passed quickly from one country to another , and those who were studying new truths were able to learn what ...
... published by clever men , and were much more read than before ; and what was still more important , books about new discoveries passed quickly from one country to another , and those who were studying new truths were able to learn what ...
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Página 125 - Our business was (precluding matters of Theology and state affairs) to discourse and consider of Philosophical Enquiries, and such as related thereunto : as physick, anatomy, geometry, astronomy, navigation, staticks, magneticks, chymicks, mechanicks, and natural experiments ; with the state of these studies, as then cultivated at home and abroad.
Página 101 - ... that the squares of the periodic times of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Página 125 - Saturn, the spots in the sun, and its turning on its own axis", the inequalities and selenography of the moon, the several phases of Venus and Mercury, the improvement of telescopes, and grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of air, the possibility, or impossibility of vacuities, and nature's abhorrence thereof, the Torricellian experiment in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies, and the degrees of acceleration therein ; and divers other things of like nature.
Página 234 - The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air ; but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterwards. Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it."* * Dr.
Página 170 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.