Monthly Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy, Geology, Industrial Arts, Manufactures, and Technology, Volume 5James Samuelson, William Crookes J. Churchill and Sons, 1868 - Science |
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... known to us , that which appears the most likely to be immediately successful and remunerative is the one by which " Hambro ' smoked beef " is prepared . This kind of beef is becoming a great delicacy even in England ; and as the ...
... known to us , that which appears the most likely to be immediately successful and remunerative is the one by which " Hambro ' smoked beef " is prepared . This kind of beef is becoming a great delicacy even in England ; and as the ...
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... known as chemistry to the ancients occupied itself with the solution of problems of an entirely different nature from those which engage the attention of chemists at the present day . For a long period chemistry , with childish illusion ...
... known as chemistry to the ancients occupied itself with the solution of problems of an entirely different nature from those which engage the attention of chemists at the present day . For a long period chemistry , with childish illusion ...
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... known metals were scarcely distinguished from each other ; thus lead and tin were regarded by the Romans as differently coloured varieties of the same metal - as dark and light lead . Of the most important chemical problems , such as ...
... known metals were scarcely distinguished from each other ; thus lead and tin were regarded by the Romans as differently coloured varieties of the same metal - as dark and light lead . Of the most important chemical problems , such as ...
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... known that , by the action of certain substances , copper could be made as yellow as gold , and , by that of others , as white as silver , the transformation being effected throughout the entire mass . We now know that when red copper ...
... known that , by the action of certain substances , copper could be made as yellow as gold , and , by that of others , as white as silver , the transformation being effected throughout the entire mass . We now know that when red copper ...
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... known as the salt constituent , the universally - accepted elements were purely fictitious , and that hardly any attempt was made to extract them from the substances in which they were supposed to exist . But whilst chemists were thus ...
... known as the salt constituent , the universally - accepted elements were purely fictitious , and that hardly any attempt was made to extract them from the substances in which they were supposed to exist . But whilst chemists were thus ...
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Page 51 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Page 511 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 444 - Containing Outlines of the History of Iron Manufacture, Methods of Assay, and Analyses of Iron Ores, Processes of Manufacture of Iron and Steel, &c.
Page 54 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and...
Page 511 - In affirming that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought, as exercised by us, has its correlative in the physics of the brain, I think the position of the " Materialist " is stated, as far as that position is a tenable one. I think the materialist will be able finally to maintain this position against all attacks; but I do not think, in the present condition of the human mind, that he can pass beyond this position.
Page 355 - In the ordinary process of photometry the standard used is a candle, denned by Act of Parliament as a "sperm candle of six to the pound, burning at the rate of 120 grains per hour.
Page 444 - Rambles of a Naturalist on the Shores and Waters of the China Sea. Being Observations in Natural History during a Voyage to China, Formosa, Borneo, Singapore, &c., during 1866—67.
Page 94 - An Inquiry into the Zoological Relations of the first-discovered Traces of fossil Neuropterous Insects in North America; with Remarks on the difference of Structure in the Wings of living Neuroptera,' by SH Scudder; by the Author.
Page 509 - ... so the specific motion of the sun's rays now enables the green bud to feed upon the carbonic acid and the aqueous vapour of the air.