Nature, Volume 34Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1886 - Electronic journals |
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... occur in April and September . The most pronounced minimum of vertical force is in December for both stations . It ... occurrence where even the lion himself is a considerable sufferer by coming into collision with this plant . So great ...
... occur in April and September . The most pronounced minimum of vertical force is in December for both stations . It ... occurrence where even the lion himself is a considerable sufferer by coming into collision with this plant . So great ...
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... occur in it the two names Papus orbiculatus and Papus hispanorum . In this 1596 catalogue these names , as all the rest , occur without any English equivalent or any description or note . The catalogue is simply a list of names . The ...
... occur in it the two names Papus orbiculatus and Papus hispanorum . In this 1596 catalogue these names , as all the rest , occur without any English equivalent or any description or note . The catalogue is simply a list of names . The ...
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... occur in the catalogues , and names in the catalogues which do not occur in the " Herbal . " That the " Herbal " of 1597 should not exactly agree with the catalogue of 1596 , hardly excites surprise , but that the catalogue of 1599 ...
... occur in the catalogues , and names in the catalogues which do not occur in the " Herbal . " That the " Herbal " of 1597 should not exactly agree with the catalogue of 1596 , hardly excites surprise , but that the catalogue of 1599 ...
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... occurred among the French troops at Algiers , caused , it was believed , by eating dried codfish , which had a ... occur in regions so far apart as New England , Algiers , and salt - marsh mud in Denmark , and it suggests the idea that ...
... occurred among the French troops at Algiers , caused , it was believed , by eating dried codfish , which had a ... occur in regions so far apart as New England , Algiers , and salt - marsh mud in Denmark , and it suggests the idea that ...
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... occurred about a century ago in that portion of the empire.1 The only existing volcanic action on islands of this coast is on the north of Formosa , near Keelung , where three solfataras are in ceaseless ebullition , affording large ...
... occurred about a century ago in that portion of the empire.1 The only existing volcanic action on islands of this coast is on the north of Formosa , near Keelung , where three solfataras are in ceaseless ebullition , affording large ...
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Page 108 - City had given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History.
Page 107 - The inner parts of the country were not less savage and horrible. The wild rocks raised their lofty summits till they were lost in the clouds, and the valleys lay covered with everlasting snow. Not a tree was to be seen, nor a shrub even big enough to make a toothpick. The only vegetation we met with was a coarse strong-bladed grass growing in tufts, wild burnet, and a plant like moss, which sprung from the rocks.
Page 167 - AM the Flying Dutchman crossed our bows. A strange red light as of a phantom ship all aglow, in the midst of which light the masts, spars, and sails of a brig 200 yards distant stood out in strong relief as she came up on the port bow.
Page 50 - Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides.
Page 196 - The art of preserving health; that is, of obtaining the most perfect action of body and mind during as long a period as is consistent with the laws of life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous, death more remote.
Page 291 - The dynamics of the subject, so far as a single liquid is concerned, is absolutely comprised in the mathematics without symbols which I have put before you. Twenty pages covered with sextuple integrals could tell us no more. Hitherto we have only considered mutual attraction between the parts of two portions of one and the same liquid — water for instance. Consider, now, two different kinds of liquid : for instance, water and carbon disulphide (which, for brevity, I shall call sulphide). Deal with...
Page 12 - ... everything is green, as in April in Andalusia. The singing of the birds is such, that it seems as if one would never desire to depart hence. There are flocks of parrots...
Page 246 - Monthly and Yearly Means, Extremes, and Sums for the Years 1883, 1884, 1885," with an appendix on observations of clouds.
Page 45 - C — known as the absorption, was introduced about 1850. The principle employed is chemical or physical rather than mechanical, and depends on the fact that many vapours of low boiling point are readily absorbed by water, but can be separated again by the application of heat to the mixed liquid. A considerable number of machines in which ammonia was used in combination with water as an absorbent were made by Carre...
Page 139 - Fizeau in 1851 is essentially correct, and that the luminiferous ether is entirely unaffected by the motion of the matter which it permeates.