Familiar Lectures on Scientific SubjectsA. Strahan, 1867 - 507 ページ |
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action æther amount angle of incidence appear astronomers body bright calculation called centre circle coloured comet connexion course crystal dark degree described diameter direction distance double refraction earth earthquake elastic elliptic equal fact feet force glass globe heat Iceland spar illumination inch incidence instance intensity interval length less light luminiferous ether luminous material matter measure medium metre miles minute molecules moon motion movement nature nearly object oblique observed optical orbit ordinary parallax parallel particles pass perihelion perpendicular phænomena phænomenon plane plate portion present prism prismatic produce propagated proportion reflected reflexion refracted ray refraction refractive index result retina right angles rings round seen side space spectrum spot stars substance Sumbawa sun's suppose surface tail telescope theory thickness thing tints tion tourmaline undulation undulatory vapour velocity Vesuvius vibrations violent vis viva volcano wave weight whole
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37 ページ - The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its " fiery surge
47 ページ - I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
392 ページ - The movement of the upper one was shown by an index, that pointed to the right or to the left according to the direction of the motion.
462 ページ - The actual force necessary to be originated to give rise to the utmost imaginable exertion of animal force in any case, may be no greater than is required to remove a single material molecule from its place through a space inconceivably minute — no more, in comparison with the dynamical force disengaged, directly or indirectly, by the act, than the pull of a hair-trigger in comparison with the force of the mine which it explodes. But without the power to make some material disposition...
462 ページ - ... in comparison with the force of the mine which it explodes. But without the power to make some material disposition,' to originate some movement, or to change, at least temporarily, the amount of dynamical force appropriate to some one or more material molecules, the mechanical results of human or animal volition are inconceivable. It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in which this is performed. It suffices to bring the origination of dynamical power, to however small an extent, within...
26 ページ - ... at Naples. In an instant, a fountain of liquid transparent fire began to rise, and gradually increasing, arrived at so amazing a height as to strike every one who beheld It with the most awful astonishment. I shall scarcely...
35 ページ - Sang'ir appeared like a body of liquid fire, extending itself in every direction. The fire and columns of flame continued to rage with unabated fury, until the darkness, caused by the quantity of falling matter, obscured it at about 8 PM Stones at this time fell very thick at Sang'ir, some of them as large as two fists, but generally not larger than walnuts.
132 ページ - ... say, when the full effect of the sun's perihelion action had been endured, — the nucleus offered every appearance of most violent and, so to speak, angry excitement, evidenced by the complicated structure and convolutions of the jets issuing from it."
455 ページ - In every such change we recognize the action of Force. And in the only case in which we are admitted into any personal knowledge of the origin of force, we find it connected (possibly by intermediate links untraceable by our faculties, but yet indisputably connected] with volition, and by inevitable consequence with motive, with intellect, and with all those attributes of mind in which personality consists.
36 ページ - Peltate" no vestige of a house is left ; twenty-six of the people, who were at Sumbawa at the time, are the whole of the population who have escaped. From the most particular inquiries I have been able to make, there were certainly not fewer than 12,000 individuals in Tomboro and Pekate' at the time of the eruption, of whom only five or six survive.