Popular Lectures on Science and Art: Delivered in the Principal Cities and Towns of the United States, Volume 1Greeley & McElrath, 1850 - Astronomy |
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... phenomena in nature are be- held , it increases the feeling of admiration at the harmonious laws , the devel- opment of which renders effects apparently strange and unaccountable easily intelligible . It will be easily imagined what a ...
... phenomena in nature are be- held , it increases the feeling of admiration at the harmonious laws , the devel- opment of which renders effects apparently strange and unaccountable easily intelligible . It will be easily imagined what a ...
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... Phenomena of Auroras . - Various Exam- ples of this Meteor . -Biot's Excursion to the Shetland Isles to observe the Aurora . - Lottin's Ob- servations in 1838 - ' 9 .-- Various Auroras seen by him . - Theory of Biot to explain these ...
... Phenomena of Auroras . - Various Exam- ples of this Meteor . -Biot's Excursion to the Shetland Isles to observe the Aurora . - Lottin's Ob- servations in 1838 - ' 9 .-- Various Auroras seen by him . - Theory of Biot to explain these ...
Page 95
... phenomena become gradually more faint , and generally disappear altogether on the appearance of twilight . Sometimes , however , the aurora continues after the commencement of daybreak , when the light is so strong that a printed book ...
... phenomena become gradually more faint , and generally disappear altogether on the appearance of twilight . Sometimes , however , the aurora continues after the commencement of daybreak , when the light is so strong that a printed book ...
Page 96
... these suppositions , when the phenomena are produced in the more elevated regions , where the air is highly rarefied , little resistance being opposed to the motion of the electric fluid : light 96 THE AURORA BOREALIS .
... these suppositions , when the phenomena are produced in the more elevated regions , where the air is highly rarefied , little resistance being opposed to the motion of the electric fluid : light 96 THE AURORA BOREALIS .
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... phenomena are never observed . This ingenious and beautiful theory still , however , requires , before its va- lidity can be admitted by the rigid canons of modern physics , that the main fact on which it rests should be proved : it is ...
... phenomena are never observed . This ingenious and beautiful theory still , however , requires , before its va- lidity can be admitted by the rigid canons of modern physics , that the main fact on which it rests should be proved : it is ...
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Page 429 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great ° deep broken up, and the J windows of heaven were opened.
Page 121 - If any danger to the man should be apprehended (though I think there would be none), let him stand on the floor of his box, and now and then bring near to the rod the loop of a wire that has one end fastened to the leads, he holding it by a wax handle ; so the sparks, if the rod is electrified, will strike from the rod to the wire, and not affect him.
Page 121 - To determine the question, whether the clouds that contain lightning are electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be tried where it may be done conveniently.
Page 25 - The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
Page 122 - With this apparatus, on the appearance of a thunder-gust approaching, he went out into the commons, accompanied by his son," to whom alone he communicated his intentions, well knowing the ridicule which, too generally for the interest of science, awaits unsuccessful experiments in philosophy.
Page 121 - ... rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground; or down round one of the shrouds of a ship and down her side till it reaches the water?
Page 248 - Saturn, yet micrometrical measurements of extreme delicacy" have demonstrated that the coincidence is not mathematically exact, but that the centre of gravity of the rings oscillates round that of the body, describing a very minute orbit, probably under laws of much complexity.
Page 114 - Electricity, which was more generally read and admired in all parts of Europe than these letters. There is hardly any European language into which they have not been translated...
Page 121 - ... feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man standing on it, when such clouds are passing low, might be electrified and afford sparks, the rod drawing fire to him from a cloud.
Page 171 - ... domain of physical science, and clothes the natural philosopher with powers denied to the political and moral inquirer, yet foreknowledge is eminently the privilege of the astronomer. Nature has raised the curtain of futurity, and displayed before him the succession of her decrees, so far as they...