The Annals of Philosophy, Band 19Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1822 |
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Seite 229 - Three fourths of the total number of bones in the German caves belong to two extinct species of bear, and two-thirds of the remainder to the extinct hyaena of Kirkdale. There are also bones of an animal of the cat kind (resembling the jaguar or spotted panther of South America) and of the wolf, fox, and polecat, and rarely of...
Seite 139 - ... which was alone in vogue with us at that time. But it was not long before I, with immense pains, but no assistance, set myself with the utmost zeal to the study of Sir Isaac Newton's wonderful discoveries in his ' Philosophise Naturalis Principia Mathematica...
Seite 62 - Vesuvius,* the wood of the houses is uniformly converted into charcoal ; yet the colours on the walls, most of which would have been destroyed or altered by heat, are perfectly fresh, and where papyri have been found in these houses, they have appeared in the form of white ashes...
Seite 3 - It was proved by several experiments that the motion depended entirely upon the magnetism, and not upon the electrical inductive power of the magnet, for masses of soft iron, or of . other metals, produced no effect. The electrical arc or column of flame was more easily affected by the magnet, and its motion was more rapid when it passed • through dense than through rarified air; and in this case, the conducting medium or chain of aeriform particles was much shorter.
Seite 117 - ... called, is not at the extremity of the needle, but may be represented by a point generally in the axis of the needle at some little distance from the end. It was evident also that this point had a tendency to revolve round the wire, and necessarily, therefore, the wire round the point...
Seite 39 - Dalton, was not a new gas sui generis, " but a modification of olefiant gas, constituted of the same elements as that fluid, and in the same proportions, with this only difference, that the compound atoms are triple instead of double:" and Dr. Thomson has adopted this opinion in his Principles of Chemistry.
Seite 40 - It is a well known fact that when two magnets are brought near together, their unlike poles ; *'. e., the north pole of one and the south pole of the other...
Seite 157 - Hortus suburbanus londinensis; or, A catalogue of plants cultivated in the neighbourhood of London, arranged according to the Linnean system, with the addition of the natural orders to which they belong, etc.
Seite 230 - ... which has left traces of its ravages, committed at no very distant period, over the surface of the whole globe, and since which no important or general physical changes appear to have affected it. Both in the ease of the English and German caverns...
Seite 78 - Illustrations of the History, Manners, and Customs, Arts, Sciences, and Literature, of Japan ; selected from Japanese Manuscripts, and printed Works. By M. Titsingh, formerly chief Agent of the Dutch East India Company, at Nangasaki; and accompanied with many coloured Engravings, faithfully copied from Original Japanese Paintings and Designs.