Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society, Volumen18Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society., 1856 |
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... upon the elements with which they worked , that the theory of Phlogiston was regarded as a great discovery ; a fanciful theory founded on an explanation B of facts confessedly incomplete in the eyes of the most Preface vii CHAPTER.
... upon the elements with which they worked , that the theory of Phlogiston was regarded as a great discovery ; a fanciful theory founded on an explanation B of facts confessedly incomplete in the eyes of the most Preface vii CHAPTER.
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Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. of facts confessedly incomplete in the eyes of the most enlightened , was made the great centre round which all chemical knowledge placidly rolled . We may be allowed to boast , that , when ...
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. of facts confessedly incomplete in the eyes of the most enlightened , was made the great centre round which all chemical knowledge placidly rolled . We may be allowed to boast , that , when ...
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... fact first made him a philosopher and the love of which he never for a moment lost . DALTON'S EARLY LIFE AND FIRST BOOK . John Dalton was born at Eaglesfield , in Cumberland , on the 5th of September , 1766 , in a small cottage on the ...
... fact first made him a philosopher and the love of which he never for a moment lost . DALTON'S EARLY LIFE AND FIRST BOOK . John Dalton was born at Eaglesfield , in Cumberland , on the 5th of September , 1766 , in a small cottage on the ...
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... fact he earned only a scanty subsistence by weaving common country goods , and his wife eked it out by selling paper , ink , and quills , * but he seems to have been a man of some vigor of mind , as we find that he taught his sons ...
... fact he earned only a scanty subsistence by weaving common country goods , and his wife eked it out by selling paper , ink , and quills , * but he seems to have been a man of some vigor of mind , as we find that he taught his sons ...
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... facts we must unavoidably infer that the height of the atmosphere , or at least of the gross parts of it , is less in winter than in summer , conformable to the table p . -80 . There are more reasons than one to con- clude that the ...
... facts we must unavoidably infer that the height of the atmosphere , or at least of the gross parts of it , is less in winter than in summer , conformable to the table p . -80 . There are more reasons than one to con- clude that the ...
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Página 125 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Página 125 - ... that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them; and that these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Página 126 - While the Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages: But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed.
Página 304 - Morley. — A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of the HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS in the ARABIC and PERSIAN LANGUAGES preserved in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Página 233 - When any body exists in the elastic state, its ultimate particles are separated from each other to a much greater distance than in any other state; each particle occupies the centre of a comparatively large sphere, and supports its dignity by keeping all the rest, which by their gravity, or otherwise, are disposed to encroach upon it, at a respectful distance.
Página 265 - for the development of the chemical theory of definite proportions, usually called the Atomic Theory, and for his various other labours and discoveries in physical and chemical science.
Página 44 - These facts clearly point out the theory of the process : the elements of oxygen may combine with a certain portion of nitrous gas, or with twice that portion, but with no intermediate quantity.
Página 49 - I have lately been prosecuting this enquiry with remarkable success. The principle cannot be entered upon in this paper ; but I shall just subjoin the results, as far as they appear to be ascertained by my experiments. ** TABLE of the relative weights of the ultimate particles of gaseous and other bodies.
Página 49 - An enquiry into the relative weights of the ultimate particles of bodies is a subject, as far as I know, entirely new : I have lately been prosecuting this enquiry with remarkable success.
Página 96 - There is a strong propensity which dances through every atom, and attracts the minutest particle to some peculiar object ; search this universe from its base to its summit, from fire to air, from water to earth, from all below the moon to all above the celestial spheres, and thou wilt not find a corpuscle destitute of that natural attractibility...