The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, 10. köideJames Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1871 |
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... remains , however , a great desideratum — a com- plete system which shall enable the scientific artillerist to answer any question respecting the motion and behaviour of a shot after it has left the cannon's mouth at any point of its ...
... remains , however , a great desideratum — a com- plete system which shall enable the scientific artillerist to answer any question respecting the motion and behaviour of a shot after it has left the cannon's mouth at any point of its ...
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... remains doubtful whether it should not constitute the type of a new genus . The mould above described having become established for a week or two , small blackish spots made their appearance on the paper , sometimes amongst thin patches ...
... remains doubtful whether it should not constitute the type of a new genus . The mould above described having become established for a week or two , small blackish spots made their appearance on the paper , sometimes amongst thin patches ...
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... remains to be proved . " This is in a sense true ; and so , also , it is true that every proposition of Euclid ( as , for instance , Prop . 5 , Book I. ) remains to be proved , as far as some learners are concerned . justly -- as ...
... remains to be proved . " This is in a sense true ; and so , also , it is true that every proposition of Euclid ( as , for instance , Prop . 5 , Book I. ) remains to be proved , as far as some learners are concerned . justly -- as ...
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... remains of those loftier pro- minences which Zöllner and Respighi have watched sinking back towards the solar surface . The gaseous envelope into which these gaseous prominences are projected to vast heights , and through which they ...
... remains of those loftier pro- minences which Zöllner and Respighi have watched sinking back towards the solar surface . The gaseous envelope into which these gaseous prominences are projected to vast heights , and through which they ...
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... remains from six , eight , ten , or even twenty - four hours - according to the strength of the individual , and other circumstances— before it throws off its last larva - skin , a considerable alteration has already taken place in the ...
... remains from six , eight , ten , or even twenty - four hours - according to the strength of the individual , and other circumstances— before it throws off its last larva - skin , a considerable alteration has already taken place in the ...
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Page 256 - And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores ; and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin, as voices from the grave ; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make...
Page 116 - WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 & 1862} Is allowed by upwards of 200 Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn...
Page 14 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Page 256 - Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far, far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores...
Page 14 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 116 - ... its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the Truss (which cannot fail to fit...