Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Band 19American Philosophical Society, 1882 |
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Seite 21 - of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the Earth. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to those of terrestrial magnetism and the aurora."}
Seite 418 - forget all my toil and all my father's house. And the name of the second called he Ephraim: for God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my
Seite 574 - interchange in position of indefinitely minute volumes of the gases, which volumes are not necessarily of equal magnitude, being, in the case of each gas, inversely proportional to the square root of the density of that gas.
Seite 457 - the explanation of all phenomena of electromagnetic attraction or repulsion, and of electromagnetic induction is to be looked for simply in the inertia and pressure of the matter of which the motions constitute heat
Seite 293 - Swift were those planets, and the world will own Swift was the progress of the rising town. The Lion Is an active Regal sign, And Sol beheld the two superiors Join, A city built with such Propitious rays, Will stand to see old Walls and happy days.
Seite 420 - have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.
Seite 603 - subsidence, and the central aggregation consequent on subsidence, may go on quite as well among a multitude of discrete bodies under the influence of mutual attraction and feeble or partially opposing projectile motions, as among the particles of a gaseous fluid
Seite 185 - Forces in the Solar system ; harmonies of apsidal and mean planetary positions and moments of inertia ; influence of the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle
Seite 603 - s'o adjusted to their mean distances as to insure to the system a greater degree of permanence than would be possible by any other distribution of masses. The mathematical expression of a criterion for such distribution of masses has not yet been fully developed ; and the
Seite 585 - oscillation (as it may be termed) will be imperceptible in one case, of appreciable magnitude in another, and even more perceptible in its visible effects than the original cause in a third; of this