The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and Art, Volum 27Henry Colburn, 1829 |
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... Electricity , by CHARLES BONNYCASTLE , Esq . , Pro- fessor of Mathematics in the University of Virginia , in the United States . Communicated by P. BARLOW , Esq . , F.R.S. • • 131 133 On the French Claim to the Discovery of the Steam ...
... Electricity , by CHARLES BONNYCASTLE , Esq . , Pro- fessor of Mathematics in the University of Virginia , in the United States . Communicated by P. BARLOW , Esq . , F.R.S. • • 131 133 On the French Claim to the Discovery of the Steam ...
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... Electricity 6 Electricity of Woollen Cloth 7 Price of Bromine 8 Peculiar production of Ammo- nia · • 9 Cyanide of Sulphur · 16 Spontaneous Inflammation of Arsenical Cobalt 192 17 Sulphate of Potash and Chrome 193 18 Preparation of ...
... Electricity 6 Electricity of Woollen Cloth 7 Price of Bromine 8 Peculiar production of Ammo- nia · • 9 Cyanide of Sulphur · 16 Spontaneous Inflammation of Arsenical Cobalt 192 17 Sulphate of Potash and Chrome 193 18 Preparation of ...
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... electricity . But this , in my humble opinion , is rather an evasion than an ex- planation , and seems nearly allied to the notion that hills attract clouds . The column which apparently descends from the clouds ( for any descent is ...
... electricity . But this , in my humble opinion , is rather an evasion than an ex- planation , and seems nearly allied to the notion that hills attract clouds . The column which apparently descends from the clouds ( for any descent is ...
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losing the elastic form , and may be partly an effect of the electricity in making its escape from the cloud . The thunder and lightning which sometimes attend the condensation of large volumes of steam emitted by volcanoes , are ...
losing the elastic form , and may be partly an effect of the electricity in making its escape from the cloud . The thunder and lightning which sometimes attend the condensation of large volumes of steam emitted by volcanoes , are ...
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... electricity imparted to them . About a year ago I made some experiments upon this subject , and arrived at what appeared to me an important fact , that electricity radiate , with great velocity when the body upon whose surface it exists ...
... electricity imparted to them . About a year ago I made some experiments upon this subject , and arrived at what appeared to me an important fact , that electricity radiate , with great velocity when the body upon whose surface it exists ...
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Pàgina 227 - Some men there are love not a gaping pig; Some, that are mad if they behold a cat; And others, when the bagpipe sings i...
Pàgina 321 - Intra sphceram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it...
Pàgina 321 - So that, having a way to make my vessels so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high.
Pàgina 321 - I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty foot high; one vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
Pàgina 321 - So that having a way to make my vessels, so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high. One vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man...
Pàgina 227 - tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly ; And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him, and write his speeches in their books, , Alas ! it cried, " Give me some drink, Titinius,
Pàgina 225 - ... through human nature at one glance, and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new opinion: that the philosopher, and even the man of the world, may be born, as well as the poet.
Pàgina 227 - He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Pàgina 388 - ... is usually situated ; this hole is cut through into the cabin, and within it is placed the compass with its box, suspended in the usual way, and when so situated it is completely out of the reach of cannon or other shot. In order to cause it to act as a...
Pàgina 232 - Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass, but my madness speaks.