The British Encyclopedia, Or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Τόμος 1Whittingham, 1809 |
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... heat , and much wa- ter : -and Wheler's Abroma , so called by Koenig , in compliment to Edward Whe'er , Esq . of the Supreme Council in Bengal ; this is a shrub with a brown bark , a native of the East Indies , and is not known in ...
... heat , and much wa- ter : -and Wheler's Abroma , so called by Koenig , in compliment to Edward Whe'er , Esq . of the Supreme Council in Bengal ; this is a shrub with a brown bark , a native of the East Indies , and is not known in ...
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... heat ; the acid be- ing partly driven off , partly destroyed : - they are very soluble in water : —when mixed with sulphuric acid , and distilled in a mo- derate heat , acetic acid is disengaged : - when they are dissolved in water ...
... heat ; the acid be- ing partly driven off , partly destroyed : - they are very soluble in water : —when mixed with sulphuric acid , and distilled in a mo- derate heat , acetic acid is disengaged : - when they are dissolved in water ...
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... heat . ACHROMATIC , an epithet expressing a want of colour , introduced into astronomy by De la Lande . ACHROMATIC telescopes , are telescopes contrived to remedy the aberrations in co- lours . They were invented by Mr. John Dolland ...
... heat . ACHROMATIC , an epithet expressing a want of colour , introduced into astronomy by De la Lande . ACHROMATIC telescopes , are telescopes contrived to remedy the aberrations in co- lours . They were invented by Mr. John Dolland ...
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... Heat is well known to rarefy and expand , and conse- quently to lessen the specific gravity of the air to which it is applied ; and the diminu- tion of its weight is proportional to the heat . One degree of heat , according to the scale ...
... Heat is well known to rarefy and expand , and conse- quently to lessen the specific gravity of the air to which it is applied ; and the diminu- tion of its weight is proportional to the heat . One degree of heat , according to the scale ...
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... heat attending the effervescence will be diminished , and the diluted acid will pass more readily through the interstices of the turnings , when they are heaped together , than through the filings , which stick closer to one another ...
... heat attending the effervescence will be diminished , and the diluted acid will pass more readily through the interstices of the turnings , when they are heaped together , than through the filings , which stick closer to one another ...
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Σελίδα 154 - The dexterity of hand, indeed, even in common trades, cannot be acquired without much practice and experience. But a young man would practise with much more diligence and attention if, from the beginning, he wrought as a journeyman, being paid in proportion to the little work which he could execute, and paying in his turn for the materials which he might sometimes spoil through awkwardness and inexperience.
Σελίδα 124 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Σελίδα 152 - It is in this manner that the policy of Europe, by restraining the competition in some employments to a smaller number than would otherwise be disposed to enter into them, occasions a very important inequality in the whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock .... Thirdly, the policy of Europe, by obstructing the free circulation of labour and stock both from employment to employment, and from place to place...
Σελίδα 153 - When those particular incorporations which are now peculiarly called universities were first established, the term of years which it was necessary to study, in order to obtain the degree of master of arts, appears evidently to have been copied from the term of apprenticeship in common trades, of which the incorporations were much more ancient.