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Σελίδα 7
... force of gravity . The vibrations of a pendulum are called its oscillations . From the precision of its motions , it is employed in measuring time and space . The distance of a ship , from which a gun is fired , may be ascertained by ...
... force of gravity . The vibrations of a pendulum are called its oscillations . From the precision of its motions , it is employed in measuring time and space . The distance of a ship , from which a gun is fired , may be ascertained by ...
Σελίδα 54
... force is sufficient to put it in motion , and cause it to exhale in a lucid form : thus the phosphori made by various chemical preparations receive so large a proportion of fire in the process , and retain it so well in their unctuous ...
... force is sufficient to put it in motion , and cause it to exhale in a lucid form : thus the phosphori made by various chemical preparations receive so large a proportion of fire in the process , and retain it so well in their unctuous ...
Σελίδα 68
... force of the sea , or a great river . PIGMENTS , substances used in painting and dye- ing , to impart the colours required . They are ob- tained from animal , vegetable , and mineral sub- stances . PILE , in coinage , denotes a kind of ...
... force of the sea , or a great river . PIGMENTS , substances used in painting and dye- ing , to impart the colours required . They are ob- tained from animal , vegetable , and mineral sub- stances . PILE , in coinage , denotes a kind of ...
Σελίδα 92
... force of its spring is equal to its weight . A bladder filled with air by blowing into it , is highly elastic : it proves also that air is as much a sub- stance as wood or metal , for no force can , without breaking the bladder , bring ...
... force of its spring is equal to its weight . A bladder filled with air by blowing into it , is highly elastic : it proves also that air is as much a sub- stance as wood or metal , for no force can , without breaking the bladder , bring ...
Σελίδα 93
... force , according to the velocity with which it flows . See WIND . Air - pumps are machines for exhausting the air from certain vessels adapted to the purpose . Plate Pneumatics , fig . 1. represents one of the most con- venient air ...
... force , according to the velocity with which it flows . See WIND . Air - pumps are machines for exhausting the air from certain vessels adapted to the purpose . Plate Pneumatics , fig . 1. represents one of the most con- venient air ...
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Σελίδα 40 - By this way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients; and from motions to the forces producing them; and in general, from effects to their causes; and from particular causes to more general ones, till the argument end in the most general.
Σελίδα 395 - Matthew then, among the Jews, wrote a gospel in their own language, while Peter and Paul were preaching the gospel at Rome, and founding a church there.
Σελίδα 40 - As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis, ought ever to precede the method of composition. This analysis consists in making experiments and observations, and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections against the conclusions, but such as are taken from experiments, or other certain truths. For hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental philosophy.
Σελίδα 394 - Among these were reckoned the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the Acts of the Apostles; the Epistles of the apostle Paul...
Σελίδα 239 - The surface of a sphere is equal to four times the area of a circle...
Σελίδα 40 - And although the arguing from experiments and observations by induction be no demonstration of general conclusions, yet it is the best way of arguing which the nature of things admits of, and may be looked upon as so much the stronger, by how much the induction is more general.
Σελίδα 149 - When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole; a genus for a species, or a species for a genus; the singular...
Σελίδα 205 - He is likewise to decide the elections of knights of the shire, (subject to the control of the house of commons,) of coroners, and of verderors ; to judge of the qualification of voters, and to return such as he shall determine to be duly elected.
Σελίδα 35 - ... connected together in the fancy, that the idea of the one seems, of its own accord, to call up and introduce that of the other. If the objects are still observed to succeed each other as before, this connection, or, as it has been called, this association of...
Σελίδα 112 - Hottoman to be a rescript, or answer of the sovereign, delivered, by advice of his council, to some college, order, or body of people, upon consulting him on some case of their community. The like answer, given to any particular person, is called simply rescript.