Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 17. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 613
... producing that agitation of the organ by which the foul is immediate- ly affected with the fenfation of found . Zeno , as quo- vited by Diogenes Laertius , fays , " Hearing is produced by the air which intervenes between the thing ...
... producing that agitation of the organ by which the foul is immediate- ly affected with the fenfation of found . Zeno , as quo- vited by Diogenes Laertius , fays , " Hearing is produced by the air which intervenes between the thing ...
Page 733
... produced . In this cafe the furrounding air is found loaded with the water or other juices which feem to have produced it , and the fteam leems to be completely foluble in air , as falt is in water , compoling while thus united a ...
... produced . In this cafe the furrounding air is found loaded with the water or other juices which feem to have produced it , and the fteam leems to be completely foluble in air , as falt is in water , compoling while thus united a ...
Page 776
... produced by absorbing a quantity of caloric or heat in a latent ftate , as the older chemifts had faid it was formed by absorbing phlogifton . La- voifier feems to have afcribed the qualities of fteel to a flight degree of oxidation ...
... produced by absorbing a quantity of caloric or heat in a latent ftate , as the older chemifts had faid it was formed by absorbing phlogifton . La- voifier feems to have afcribed the qualities of fteel to a flight degree of oxidation ...
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