Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 27. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1891 |
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Page 27
... Eyes do not atrophy through disuse ; short sight is not inherited ; a pointer doesn't point because his ancestors have been trained to point , but through a predisposition on the part of the germ.§ A predisposition to point on the part ...
... Eyes do not atrophy through disuse ; short sight is not inherited ; a pointer doesn't point because his ancestors have been trained to point , but through a predisposition on the part of the germ.§ A predisposition to point on the part ...
Page 39
... eye the birds take wing , and he is left to console himself with the thoughts of what might have been , if his fortune had proved equal to his endeavours . The pipes of the decoymen , are purposely so arranged that two can always be ...
... eye the birds take wing , and he is left to console himself with the thoughts of what might have been , if his fortune had proved equal to his endeavours . The pipes of the decoymen , are purposely so arranged that two can always be ...
Page 40
... eyes watched for the unknown apparition to present itself again . The dog leaped several times over the first stile , returning by the second , then over the second and back by the third , and so on , retreating gradually , every fowl ...
... eyes watched for the unknown apparition to present itself again . The dog leaped several times over the first stile , returning by the second , then over the second and back by the third , and so on , retreating gradually , every fowl ...
Page 42
... eye looks straight downwards upon the drawing - paper ; the worst position for head and eye , and the most uncomfortable that can be assumed . But with the Zeiss instrument the microscope may be at any chosen angle 42 HARDWIcke's ...
... eye looks straight downwards upon the drawing - paper ; the worst position for head and eye , and the most uncomfortable that can be assumed . But with the Zeiss instrument the microscope may be at any chosen angle 42 HARDWIcke's ...
Page 43
... eye - piece of the stage , if the magnification is required to be the same in drawing as under the microscope . ( 3 ) The light on the object and that on the drawing - paper should , in neither case , be so bright or so dull that one ...
... eye - piece of the stage , if the magnification is required to be the same in drawing as under the microscope . ( 3 ) The light on the object and that on the drawing - paper should , in neither case , be so bright or so dull that one ...
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