Scientific Dialogues Intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young People: In which the First Principles of Natural and Experimental Philosophy are Fully Explained

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E. Parker, 1838 - 362 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 239 - Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Σελίδα 219 - ... 1 . The rising of the mercury presages, in general, fair weather, and its falling foul •weather, as rain, snow, high winds, and storms.
Σελίδα 331 - I might use twenty instead of three) is a solution of salt and water. Into each, except the two outer ones, is plunged a small plate of zinc, and another of silver. These plates are made to communicate with each other, by means of a thin wire, fastened so that the silver of the first glass is connected with the zinc of...
Σελίδα 26 - We now come to the second law of motion, which is ; — " that the change of motion is proportional to the force impressed, and in the direction of that force.
Σελίδα 82 - T find the sun vertical again to the equator, and, of course, the days and nights are again equal. And following the earth in its journey to December, or when it has arrived at Cancer, the sun appears in Capricorn, and...
Σελίδα 88 - This alteration took place through the greater part of Europe, and the year was afterwards called the Gregorian year, or New Style. In this country, the method of reckoning according to the New Style was not admitted into our calendars...
Σελίδα 152 - Hence he inferred that, though of equal weight, the bulk of the silver was greater than that of the gold, and that the quantity of water displaced was, in each experiment, equal to the bulk of the metal. He next made...
Σελίδα 244 - ... the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence, the image for any point can be seen only in the reflected ray prolonged.
Σελίδα 100 - By observation ; for by attentively watching the progress of these bodies, it is found that they are continually changing their places among the fixed stars, and that they are never seen in opposition to the sun, that is, they are never seen in the western side of the heavens in the morning when he appears in the east ; nor in the eastern part of the heavens in the evening when the sun appears in the west.
Σελίδα 161 - We know now that the underlying principle is the same as in a mercurial barometer : it is the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water in the well that pushes the water up into the pump.

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