Caloric: its mechanical, chemical and vital agencies in the phenomena of nature v. 1, Band 1J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1859 |
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according agency of caloric agent ammonia amount of caloric animal heat arterial blood atmosphere atomic weight attraction and repulsion attraction of caloric augmented bodies caloric camphene capillary carbonic acid cause chemical action chemical affinity chlorine chyle cohesion cold colour combustion composed compound condensation converted copper Davy diminished disengaged dissolved earth elastic force elec elements equal ether experiments fact fibrin fluid gaseous gases hydrochloric acid hydrogen inches iodine John Herschel latitudes light liquids lungs maintained mercury metals motion nature nearly Newton nitric acid nitrogen observed oils organs owing oxidation oxygen particles phenomena philosophers phlogiston phosphorus planets polar ponderable matter portion potassa pounds pressure principle produced proportion quantities of caloric radiation rain ratio reduced regarded respiration salts solar solid solution specific gravity steam sulphuric acid supposed temperature theory tion transition of caloric tricity tropical venous blood vital volatile volume
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Seite 418 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Seite 225 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Seite 157 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Seite 34 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Seite 413 - The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.
Seite 156 - You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.
Seite 546 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
Seite 155 - And to shew that I do not take Gravity for an essential Property of Bodies, I have added one Question concerning its Cause, chusing to propose it by way of a Question, because I am not yet satisfied about it for want of Experiments.
Seite 29 - I wish we could derive the rest of the phenomena of Nature by the same kind of reasoning from mechanical principles, for I am induced by many reasons to suspect that they...
Seite 58 - Here then is the only expedient, from which we can hope for success in our philosophical researches, to leave the tedious lingering method, which we have hitherto followed, and instead of taking now and then a castle or village on the frontier, to march up directly to the capital or center of these sciences, to human nature itself...