The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, 2. köide,5. number;5. köideCanadian Institute., 1860 |
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... relations to physical science generally , are not readily available as a means of mineral discrimination . These , consequently , will be omitted from consideration in the following pages ; and the other characters will be discussed ...
... relations to physical science generally , are not readily available as a means of mineral discrimination . These , consequently , will be omitted from consideration in the following pages ; and the other characters will be discussed ...
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... relations to the forms of the other groups . * The names of these respective groups , The reader desirous to take up the study of Crystallography in a more extended manner , may attend the author's special courses of lectures which ...
... relations to the forms of the other groups . * The names of these respective groups , The reader desirous to take up the study of Crystallography in a more extended manner , may attend the author's special courses of lectures which ...
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... RELATIONS OF MINERALOGY . " The Chemical Constitution of Minerals . - 1 , Chemical Nomenclature as applied to Mineralogy ; 2 , The Laws of Combination : 3 , The Atomic Theory : 4 , Chemical Notation : 5 , Construction of Chemical ...
... RELATIONS OF MINERALOGY . " The Chemical Constitution of Minerals . - 1 , Chemical Nomenclature as applied to Mineralogy ; 2 , The Laws of Combination : 3 , The Atomic Theory : 4 , Chemical Notation : 5 , Construction of Chemical ...
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... relations subsisting between the coefficients , the roots of the equations happen to admit of being exactly represented in finite algebraical functions . BY THE REV . GEORGE PAXTON YOUNG , M.A. , PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS IN ...
... relations subsisting between the coefficients , the roots of the equations happen to admit of being exactly represented in finite algebraical functions . BY THE REV . GEORGE PAXTON YOUNG , M.A. , PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS IN ...
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... relation to ( 11 ) as ( 11 ) bears to ( 2 ) . And so on , till ultimately one of the equations , such as ( 10 ) , at which we arrive , contains only one term such as X ,, with no more than a single term , such as BH ,, for its ...
... relation to ( 11 ) as ( 11 ) bears to ( 2 ) . And so on , till ultimately one of the equations , such as ( 10 ) , at which we arrive , contains only one term such as X ,, with no more than a single term , such as BH ,, for its ...
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Page 127 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 119 - Refrain from: these men* and let them alone : for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought : But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it...
Page 61 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Page 122 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Page 66 - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page 13 - The specific gravity of a body is its weight compared with the weight of an equal bulk of pure water. In...
Page 192 - A sight most horrible and disgusting broke upon us as we ascended a sand dune overhanging the little dell in which the pound was built. Within a circular fence 120 feet broad, constructed of the trunks of trees, laced with withes together, and braced by outside supports, lay tossed in every conceivable position over two hundred dead buffalo. From old bulls to calves of three months old, animals of every age were huddled together in all the forced attitudes of violent death.
Page 119 - ... been led to the conclusion that those powers of nature which give rise to races and permanent varieties in animals and plants, are the same as those which in much longer periods produce species, and in a still longer series of ages give rise to differences of generic rank. He appears to me to have succeeded by his investigations and reasonings in throwing a flood of light on many classes of phenomena connected with the affinities, geographical distribution, and geological succession of organic...
Page 370 - 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 193 - ... climb to the top of the fence, and, with the hunters who have followed closely in the rear of the buffalo, spear or shoot with bows and arrows or fire-arms at the bewildered animals, rapidly becoming frantic with rage and terror, within the narrow limits of the pound.