American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 3Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 - Natural history |
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... substance is , of which the mirrour is made , the stronger will be the effect . The most remarkable burning - glasses , or rather mirrours , among the ancients , were those of Archimedes and Proclus ; by the first of which the Roman ...
... substance is , of which the mirrour is made , the stronger will be the effect . The most remarkable burning - glasses , or rather mirrours , among the ancients , were those of Archimedes and Proclus ; by the first of which the Roman ...
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... substances were not capable of complete vitrification , it is enough that they were rendered ex- ternally of a glassy ... substance must have been intermixed . A globule pro- duced from one of the specimens , on being put into the mouth ...
... substances were not capable of complete vitrification , it is enough that they were rendered ex- ternally of a glassy ... substance must have been intermixed . A globule pro- duced from one of the specimens , on being put into the mouth ...
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... substance . It has been found , that upon an admixture of equal quanti- ties of snow , which is always at 32 ° , and of water heated to 172 ° , the result is , that the compound only retains the lowest heat of 32 ° , so that 140 ° of ...
... substance . It has been found , that upon an admixture of equal quanti- ties of snow , which is always at 32 ° , and of water heated to 172 ° , the result is , that the compound only retains the lowest heat of 32 ° , so that 140 ° of ...
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... substance , prepared from milk , by heating or churn- ing it . It was late before the Greeks appear to have had any notion of butter ; their poets make no mention of it , and yet are frequently speaking of milk and cheese . The Romans ...
... substance , prepared from milk , by heating or churn- ing it . It was late before the Greeks appear to have had any notion of butter ; their poets make no mention of it , and yet are frequently speaking of milk and cheese . The Romans ...
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... substance is also frequently used in the manufacture of buttons : in which case , the mode of It is done by drilling a hole at the back , fixing in the shank is somewhat ingenious . which is under - cut ; that is , larger at the bottom ...
... substance is also frequently used in the manufacture of buttons : in which case , the mode of It is done by drilling a hole at the back , fixing in the shank is somewhat ingenious . which is under - cut ; that is , larger at the bottom ...
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