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Page 242 - WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY ; or, Year Book of Facts in Science and Art, exhibiting the most important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Meteorology, Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, Antiquities, etc.
Page 243 - Glossary of Architecture. Explanation of the Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture, exemplified by many Hundred Woodcuts. Fifth Edition, much enlarged. 3 vols. 8vo. 48s. Introduction to Gothic Architecture. By the Editor of the " Glossary ;" with numerous Illustrations, 4s.
Page 231 - The general aspect of the southern circumpolar region, including in that expression 60° or 70° of S PD, is in a high degree rich and magnificent, owing to the superior brilliancy and larger development of the Milky Way ; which, from the constellation of Orion to that of Antinous, is...
Page 4 - We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.
Page 165 - A fungus is developed on a single spot of ground, sheds its seed, and dies: on the spot where it grew it leaves a valuable manuring of phosphoric acid and alkalies — some magnesia and a little sulphate of lime. Another fungus might undoubtedly grow on the same spot again ; but upon the death of the first the ground becomes occupied by a vigorous crop of grass, rising like a phoenix on the ashes of its predecessor.
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Page 246 - This work, which contains Engravings of all the chief works in the Italian, German, Dutch, French, and English Schools, includes TWELVE HUNDRED PLATES, and is an indispensable vade-mecum to the Artist or Collector. In 17 handsome vols. small 8vo. neatly bound, with gilt tops. Originally published at £11.
Page 146 - Mr. Cornelius heated one end of a piece of thick plated copper to nearly the melting point of the metal; the silver at this end disappeared, and when the metal was cleaned by a solution of dilute sulphuric acid, the end which had been heated presented a uniform surface of copper, whilst the other end exhibited its proper coating of silver. The unsilvered end of the plate was next placed, for a few minutes, in a solution of muriate of zinc, by which the exterior surface of copper was removed, and...
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Page 242 - Illustrated with Engravings, fcp. 8vo. 5s. cloth. *»* This work is published annually, and contains a complete and condensed view of the progress of discovery during the year, systematically arranged, with engravings illustrative of novelties in the arts and sciences, &c. The volumes, from its commencement in 1839, may still be had, 5s.