The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, 13. köideA. and C. Black, 1861 |
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Page 23
... reason to suppose that it is in a great measure so , and that the percentage of lime must depend on the percentage of shells . The number of It * This infusorial character of volcanic tuffs is not peculiar to Iceland . Sir Charles Lyell ...
... reason to suppose that it is in a great measure so , and that the percentage of lime must depend on the percentage of shells . The number of It * This infusorial character of volcanic tuffs is not peculiar to Iceland . Sir Charles Lyell ...
Page 63
... " Lettres Physiques et Morales . " La Haye and Paris , 1779. M. Pictet's account is published in his " Essais de Physique . " Geneva , 1790 . begins to reason correctly . " It is then from to the Authorship of the " Theory of Dew . " 63.
... " Lettres Physiques et Morales . " La Haye and Paris , 1779. M. Pictet's account is published in his " Essais de Physique . " Geneva , 1790 . begins to reason correctly . " It is then from to the Authorship of the " Theory of Dew . " 63.
Page 64
... reason correctly . " It is then from the ground that this coldness proceeds " ( " C'est donc du sol que pro- vient cette fraicheur ; " ) and indeed the thermometer hanging at four lines from the ground generally gave a lower reading ...
... reason correctly . " It is then from the ground that this coldness proceeds " ( " C'est donc du sol que pro- vient cette fraicheur ; " ) and indeed the thermometer hanging at four lines from the ground generally gave a lower reading ...
Page 72
... reason assigned for the experiment was the very proper one , of " sand being found to favour this refrigeration . " The result of the experiment was , that all the bodies exposed , except the snow , fell full 6 ° below the tem- perature ...
... reason assigned for the experiment was the very proper one , of " sand being found to favour this refrigeration . " The result of the experiment was , that all the bodies exposed , except the snow , fell full 6 ° below the tem- perature ...
Page 95
... reason why the parts in most immediate connection with the dust - producing receptacles of the plant , the filaments terminated by the anthers , are usually filamen- tary in form . Both the filaments and the funiculi repeat and ...
... reason why the parts in most immediate connection with the dust - producing receptacles of the plant , the filaments terminated by the anthers , are usually filamen- tary in form . Both the filaments and the funiculi repeat and ...
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