The Western Review of Science and Industry, 1. köideJournal of Commerce Printing and Publishing House, 1878 |
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Page 495 - They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars; whereof the innermost is distant from the centre of the primary planet exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost, five; the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half...
Page 334 - ... which we observe on a fine day, would be observed just as they are. The ordinary observation of atmospheric electricity would give just the result that we obtain from it. The result that we obtain...
Page 209 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein ; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Page 333 - I do not remember the figures at this moment ; in fact, I do not remember which is the greater. Well, now, if all space were non-conducting — and experiments on vacuum tubes seem rather to support the possibility of that being the correct view — if all space were non-conducting, our atmosphere being a non-conductor, and the rarer and rarer air above us being a non-conductor, and the so-called vacuous space, or the interplanetary space beyond that (which we cannot admit to...
Page 58 - The electrical nerves of society are spread in a plexus all over Europe and America ; their commissural strands run under the Atlantic and the Pacific. In many of the addresses that have been made during the past summer, on the Centennial occasion, the shortcomings of the United States in extending the boundaries of scientific knowledge, especially -in the physical and chemical departments, have been set forth. " We must acknowledge with shame our inferiority to other people," says one. " We have...
Page 177 - ... respect. They have continually before their eyes the fact that by care and attention the most important modifications may be produced in the constitution and character of the animals over which they have dominion — that by selective breeding an animal may almost be transformed in the course of generations ; they perceive the striking contrast between the low savage with whom they shrink almost from confessing kinship and the best specimens of civilized culture, and know well that such as he...
Page 58 - We must acknowledge with shame our inferiority to other people," says one. " We have done nothing," says another. Well, if all this be true we ought perhaps to look to the condition of our colleges for an explanation. But we must not forget that many of these humiliating accusations are made by persons who are not of authority in the matter; who, because they are ignorant of what has been done, think that nothing has been done. They mistake what is merely a blank in their own information for a blank...
Page 59 - I have already referred, found that he could not include on more than 19 100 closely printed pages, though he proposed merely to give the names of American chemists and the titles of their works. It would be equally useless and indeed an invidious task to offer a selection ; but this may be said, that among the more prominent memoirs there are many not inferior to the foremost that the chemical literature of Europe can present. How unsatisfactory, then, is this brief statement I have made of what...
Page 333 - Suppose for a moment that there were no electricity whatever in the air — that the air was absolutely devoid of all electric manifestation, and that a charge of electricity were given to the whole earth. For this no great amount would be necessary. Such amounts as we deal with in our great submarine cables would, if given to the earth as a whole, produce a very considerable electrification of its whole surface.
Page 58 - In the accomplishment of this we have been compelled to solve many physical problems of the greatest delicacy and highest importance, and we have done it successfully. The measuringrods with which the three great base-lines of Maine, Long Island, Georgia, were determined, and their beautiful mechanical appliances, have exacted the publicly-expressed admiration of some of the greatest European philosophers, and the conduct of that survey their unstinted applause. We have instituted geological surveys...