British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 11Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... light and colours , explain the theory of vision , the effect of glasses , the phenomenon of the rainbow , and other objects of sight . As he instructed youth in the princi- ples of the Newtonian philosophy , he soon became acquainted ...
... light and colours , explain the theory of vision , the effect of glasses , the phenomenon of the rainbow , and other objects of sight . As he instructed youth in the princi- ples of the Newtonian philosophy , he soon became acquainted ...
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... light , in order to be managed with the greater ease and freedom , the blade ex- ceedingly fine , and the teeth exquisitely sharpened , to make its way more gently , and yet with great expedition , in cutting off legs , arms , & c ...
... light , in order to be managed with the greater ease and freedom , the blade ex- ceedingly fine , and the teeth exquisitely sharpened , to make its way more gently , and yet with great expedition , in cutting off legs , arms , & c ...
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... light and friable ; it is of a faint disagreeable smell , and its taste is bitterish , very nauseous , and acrimo- nious . The Smyrna scammony is con- siderably hard and heavy , of a black co- lour , and of a much stronger smell and ...
... light and friable ; it is of a faint disagreeable smell , and its taste is bitterish , very nauseous , and acrimo- nious . The Smyrna scammony is con- siderably hard and heavy , of a black co- lour , and of a much stronger smell and ...
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... light yellowish , nearly silver white colour , approaching sometimes to greyish - white . It occurs massive and disseminated , sometimes loose , and com- posed of fine scaly particles , or interne- diate between friable and loose . Its ...
... light yellowish , nearly silver white colour , approaching sometimes to greyish - white . It occurs massive and disseminated , sometimes loose , and com- posed of fine scaly particles , or interne- diate between friable and loose . Its ...
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... light so powerful as not to be obliterat ed by that of two candles on the same table . It is very tenacious of life , and will endure long in the closest confine- ment without food . S. forficata is a very common insect , found ...
... light so powerful as not to be obliterat ed by that of two candles on the same table . It is very tenacious of life , and will endure long in the closest confine- ment without food . S. forficata is a very common insect , found ...
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Page 1 - I scarce could turn to fall upon the ground, with my head to the northward, when I felt the heat of its current plainly upon my face. We all lay flat on the ground, as if dead, till Idris told us it was blown over. The meteor, or purple haze, which I saw, was indeed passed, but the light air that still blew was of heat to threaten suffocation.
Page 5 - Of the nature of those changes which take place in the Digestion of Food. Of the Chemical Principles of the process of Tanning Leather; and of the objects that must particularly be had in view in attempts to improve that most useful art. Of the Chemical Principles of the art of making Soap ; of the art of Bleaching; of the art of Dyeing; and in general of all the Mechanical Arts, as they apply to the various branches of manufacture.
Page 25 - Hence too it follows, that the infamous and unchristian practice of withholding baptism from negro servants, lest they should thereby gain their liberty, is totally without foundation, as well as without excuse. The l«w of England acts upon general and extensive principles : it gives liberty, rightly understood, that is, protection, to a Jew, a Turk, or a Heathen...
Page 11 - It is very probable that the great stratum called the milky way, is that in which the sun is placed, though perhaps not in the very centre of its thickness.
Page 3 - The distance between two points on the surface of a sphere is the length of the minor arc of a great circle between them.
Page 19 - To this head may also be referred the practice of what is called a set-off: whereby the defendant acknowledges the justice of the plaintiff's demand on the one hand, but on the other sets up a demand of his own, to counterbalance that of the plaintiff, either in the whole or in part...