Monthly Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy, Geology, Industrial Arts, Manufactures, and Technology, Volumen2James Samuelson, William Crookes J. Churchill and Sons., 1865 |
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... appears very much like that animal , " when running on the ground , which it does in successive leaps , with its tail a little elevated , every now and then raising its body and resting on its hind feet . " Besides the peculiarities of ...
... appears very much like that animal , " when running on the ground , which it does in successive leaps , with its tail a little elevated , every now and then raising its body and resting on its hind feet . " Besides the peculiarities of ...
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... appear to have been the same amount of disturb- ance and denudation as in the north . The result is , that in the north of ... appears , having originally formed in some places the margin of the Carboniferous area . The Silurian rocks ...
... appear to have been the same amount of disturb- ance and denudation as in the north . The result is , that in the north of ... appears , having originally formed in some places the margin of the Carboniferous area . The Silurian rocks ...
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... appears to rest on a basis of fact . We paid duty for home consumption in 1862 , on upwards of three hundred and seventy - three millions of gallons of wines , British and foreign spirits , and malt liquors ; in other words , our ...
... appears to rest on a basis of fact . We paid duty for home consumption in 1862 , on upwards of three hundred and seventy - three millions of gallons of wines , British and foreign spirits , and malt liquors ; in other words , our ...
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... appears to have some degree of hearing , and a slight , though at present , very slight power of speech . I further consider him to pos- sess considerable intelligence , but , from his defective hearing and speech , not capable of being ...
... appears to have some degree of hearing , and a slight , though at present , very slight power of speech . I further consider him to pos- sess considerable intelligence , but , from his defective hearing and speech , not capable of being ...
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... appears but slightly to increase the capital re- quired , whilst it enlarges the income , according to the evidence ... appear that the actual climbing of the ladders , if per- formed with moderate speed , and not so long continued as to ...
... appears but slightly to increase the capital re- quired , whilst it enlarges the income , according to the evidence ... appear that the actual climbing of the ladders , if per- formed with moderate speed , and not so long continued as to ...
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Página 365 - Results of Meteorological Observations made under the direction of the United States Patent Office and the Smithsonian Institution, from the year 1854 to 1859, inclusive, being a Report of the Commissioner of Patents made at the first session of the 36th Congress.
Página 543 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it...
Página 543 - So that, having a way to make my vessels so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high. One vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water...
Página 543 - One vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
Página 318 - These nebulae are shown by the prism to be enormous gaseous systems ; and the conjecture appears probable that their apparent permanence of general form is maintained by the continual motions of these denser portions which the telescope reveals as lucid points.