The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 10James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1871 - Science |
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... body , while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC - MAIN PAD AND PATENT LEVER , fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected , and may be worn during sleep . A descriptive circular may be had , and ...
... body , while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC - MAIN PAD AND PATENT LEVER , fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected , and may be worn during sleep . A descriptive circular may be had , and ...
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... Body in Motion through the Air , and other Purposes . " London : Bell & Daldy . Report on Experiments made with the Bashforth Chronograph for deter- mining the Resistance of the Air to the Motion of Projectiles ( p . 169 ) . Printed by ...
... Body in Motion through the Air , and other Purposes . " London : Bell & Daldy . Report on Experiments made with the Bashforth Chronograph for deter- mining the Resistance of the Air to the Motion of Projectiles ( p . 169 ) . Printed by ...
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... bodies , or perithecia , were seated on a plentiful colourless mycelium . The walls of the perithecia , rather more car- bonaceous than membranaceous , are reticulated , bringing to mind the same structure in Erysiphe , to which the ...
... bodies , or perithecia , were seated on a plentiful colourless mycelium . The walls of the perithecia , rather more car- bonaceous than membranaceous , are reticulated , bringing to mind the same structure in Erysiphe , to which the ...
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... body . Astronomy appeared in the light of an importunate beggar about to renew her troublesome applications ; while , though a hope was expressed that some assistance might be wrung from the Government , it was left to be clearly ...
... body . Astronomy appeared in the light of an importunate beggar about to renew her troublesome applications ; while , though a hope was expressed that some assistance might be wrung from the Government , it was left to be clearly ...
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... bodies are by less than a quarter of a million of miles . In fact , to account for the visibility of the corona in all total eclipses , we must assume that when the earth is in perihelion , the zodiacal matter extends three millions of ...
... bodies are by less than a quarter of a million of miles . In fact , to account for the visibility of the corona in all total eclipses , we must assume that when the earth is in perihelion , the zodiacal matter extends three millions of ...
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Page 256 - And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores ; and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin, as voices from the grave ; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make...
Page 116 - WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 & 1862} Is allowed by upwards of 200 Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn...
Page 14 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Page 256 - Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far, far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores...
Page 14 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 116 - ... its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the Truss (which cannot fail to fit...