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Σελίδα 14
... PERIOD , in astronomy , the time taken up by a star or planet in making a revolution round the Sun. PERIOD , in chronology , a revolution of a certain number of years , and another word for a cycle ; a century is a period or cycle ...
... PERIOD , in astronomy , the time taken up by a star or planet in making a revolution round the Sun. PERIOD , in chronology , a revolution of a certain number of years , and another word for a cycle ; a century is a period or cycle ...
Σελίδα 33
... period , and like other caterpillars , abstaining from food for some time before each change . When entirely full grown , the animal ceases altogether to feed , and begins to form itself a loose envelope of silken fibres in some ...
... period , and like other caterpillars , abstaining from food for some time before each change . When entirely full grown , the animal ceases altogether to feed , and begins to form itself a loose envelope of silken fibres in some ...
Σελίδα 52
... period when Ptolemy , the third of the Mace- donian race , was seated on the throne of Egypt , another phoenix directed its flight toward Helio polis . When to these circumstances are added the brilliant appearance of the phoenix , and ...
... period when Ptolemy , the third of the Mace- donian race , was seated on the throne of Egypt , another phoenix directed its flight toward Helio polis . When to these circumstances are added the brilliant appearance of the phoenix , and ...
Σελίδα 54
... period of its confinement : for that it has a real motion is evident , since , in the summer season , it is seen in any dark place , ful- minating and emitting flashes . That phosphori owe their lucidity to the motion of the parts seems ...
... period of its confinement : for that it has a real motion is evident , since , in the summer season , it is seen in any dark place , ful- minating and emitting flashes . That phosphori owe their lucidity to the motion of the parts seems ...
Σελίδα 79
... period of forty - two hours and a half . On one side of the vast ring or circle which sur- rounds Saturn , the sun shines during almost fifteen earthly years together , and as many on the other in its turn ; so that the ring , if the ...
... period of forty - two hours and a half . On one side of the vast ring or circle which sur- rounds Saturn , the sun shines during almost fifteen earthly years together , and as many on the other in its turn ; so that the ring , if the ...
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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.