Elements of Science and Art: Being a Familiar Introduction to Natural Philosophy and Chemistry; Together with Their Application to a Variety of Elegant and Useful Arts, Volume 2 |
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... Drawing the figure Drawing landscapes ...... Mechanical drawing .... Painting transparencies .... ........ .... 342 348 ........ 374 388 400 403 407 Crayon painting ...... ... 409 Colours ........ 410 Of engraving 419 Etching 423 ...
... Drawing the figure Drawing landscapes ...... Mechanical drawing .... Painting transparencies .... ........ .... 342 348 ........ 374 388 400 403 407 Crayon painting ...... ... 409 Colours ........ 410 Of engraving 419 Etching 423 ...
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... drawn to a point , fitted to its neck . Pour some water into the glass tube , and let a stream of ether fall upon that part of it containing the water , which , by that means , will be converted into ice in a few minutes . If a thin ...
... drawn to a point , fitted to its neck . Pour some water into the glass tube , and let a stream of ether fall upon that part of it containing the water , which , by that means , will be converted into ice in a few minutes . If a thin ...
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... drawn off by decant- ation . Potash , when thus prepared , is a solid white substance , and is called caustic potash , from its property of corroding the skin and flesh when it is applied to it on this account it is frequently em ...
... drawn off by decant- ation . Potash , when thus prepared , is a solid white substance , and is called caustic potash , from its property of corroding the skin and flesh when it is applied to it on this account it is frequently em ...
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... drawn out into wire . Gold and platina may be drawn into the finest wire . One of the metals , iron , is capable of being made very elastic , which renders it fit for making springs . Most of the metals are very fusible , or capable of ...
... drawn out into wire . Gold and platina may be drawn into the finest wire . One of the metals , iron , is capable of being made very elastic , which renders it fit for making springs . Most of the metals are very fusible , or capable of ...
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... drawn into the finest wire for gold- lace and other purposes , and may also be hammered into leaves of extreme thinness for gilding . Gold is not acted on by any acid except the nitro - muriatic acid and chlorine . From this pro- perty ...
... drawn into the finest wire for gold- lace and other purposes , and may also be hammered into leaves of extreme thinness for gilding . Gold is not acted on by any acid except the nitro - muriatic acid and chlorine . From this pro- perty ...
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acetic acid gas alkalies alkohol alloyed alum ammonia angles antimony appear aqua fortis bleaching blue body boiling called carbonic acid cement centre chalk charcoal cloth colouring matter combined combustion common consists copper cupellation degree dissolved distilled draw drawn dyeing earth ellipsis employed equal evaporated exposed fecula fire fluid fluoric acid formed gilding glass glue gold grains heat hydrogen hydrogen gas indigo iron lead light lime linen liquor manner melted mercury metal mixed mixture mordant mould muriatic acid nitrate nitric acid nitrous obtained ounces oxide oxygen paper phosphorus piece plate potash powder precipitate Prob procured produced proportion pure quantity quercitron resin retort rubbed sal ammoniac salt seed-lac sides silver soda soluble in water solution stain steel substance sulphate sulphuret sulphuric acid surface tube turpentine varnish vegetable vessel washed wood yellow
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Page 394 - It is indisputably evident that a great part of every man's life must be employed in collecting materials for the exercise of genius. Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory: nothing can be made of nothing: he who has laid up no materials, can produce no combination.
Page 360 - A, 11, (.', are said to be proportional, when the ratio of the first to the second is the same as that of the second to the third.
Page 397 - To make it merely natural, is a mechanical operation, to which neither genius nor taste are required ; whereas, it requires the nicest judgment to dispose the drapery, so that the folds shall have an easy communication, and gracefully follow each other, with such natural negligence as to look like the effect of chance, and at the same time show the figure under it to the utmost advantage.
Page 398 - There is one precept, however, in which I shall only be opposed by the vain, the ignorant, and the idle. I am not afraid that I shall repeat it too often. You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them : if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour : nothing is to be obtained without it.
Page 297 - ... or ammoniacum, which must be rubbed or ground till they are dissolved. Then mix the whole with a sufficient heat. Keep the glue in a phial closely stopped, and when it is to be used set the phial in boiling water.
Page 209 - ... produces leather less durable than the leather slowly formed. Besides, in the case of quick tanning by means of infusions of barks, a quantity of vegetable extractive matter is lost to the manufacturer, which might have been made to enter into the composition of his leather. These observations show, that there is some foundation for the vulgar opinion of workmen, concerning what is technically called the feeding of leather in the slow method of tanning; and, though the processes of the.art may...
Page 170 - To bleacfi cloth in this manner, it must be immersed in a slight alkaline caustic liquor, and placed in a chamber constructed over a boiler, into which is put the alkaline ley which is to be raised into Steam. After the fire has been lighted, and the cloth has remained exposed to the action of the steam for a sufficient length of time, it is taken out, and immersed in the Oxygenated Muriate of Lime, and afterwards exposed for two or three days on the grass. This operation, which is very expeditious,...
Page 257 - The manner of using the seed-lac or white varnishes is the same, except with regard to the substance used in polishing ; which, where a pure white, or great clearness of other colours is in question, should be itself white ; whereas the browner sorts of polishing dust, as being cheaper, and doing their business with greater dispatch, may be used in other cases. The pieces of work to be varnished should be placed near a fire, or in a room where there is a stove, and made perfectly dry, and then the...
Page 433 - ... the aquafortis from acting where the particles adhere, and by this means cause it to corrode the copper partially, and in the interstices only. When these particles are extremely minute and near to each other, the impression from the plate appears to the naked eye exactly like a wash of...
Page 354 - A segment of a circle is a part of a circle cut off by a straight line drawn across it. This straight line is called the chord. A segment may be either equal to, greater, or less than a semi-circle, which is a segment formed by the diameter of the circle, as CEB, and is equal to half the circle.