Science Lectures for the People, Volumes 5-6John Heywood., 1874 |
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... move is the direction of propagation of the ray of light . The intensity of light depends upon the extent of the vibra- tions , or the height of the waves ; the colour , upon the number of vibrations executed in a given interval of time ...
... move is the direction of propagation of the ray of light . The intensity of light depends upon the extent of the vibra- tions , or the height of the waves ; the colour , upon the number of vibrations executed in a given interval of time ...
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... moves round its own axis ; this broad end is closed by another glass disc , in the centre of which is a small star or other figure , formed of thin films of selenite , exhibiting when examined with polarised light strongly - contrasted ...
... moves round its own axis ; this broad end is closed by another glass disc , in the centre of which is a small star or other figure , formed of thin films of selenite , exhibiting when examined with polarised light strongly - contrasted ...
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... move about for a time as if seeking the female flowers , at the same time discharging their pollen , some of which reaches the stigmas and fertilises the ovules . After the fertilisation is effected the coil of the stalk of the female ...
... move about for a time as if seeking the female flowers , at the same time discharging their pollen , some of which reaches the stigmas and fertilises the ovules . After the fertilisation is effected the coil of the stalk of the female ...
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... move ; but when the gun cotton has thus been rendered compact , its detonation by a blow is readily accomplished ; consequently the more highly gun_cotton is compressed , the more sensitive it is to detonation . Loose gun- cotton wool ...
... move ; but when the gun cotton has thus been rendered compact , its detonation by a blow is readily accomplished ; consequently the more highly gun_cotton is compressed , the more sensitive it is to detonation . Loose gun- cotton wool ...
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... moving power . The general shape of a bird is something like the shape of a fish ; the object being the same in both , namely , to offer as little resistance as possible to the medium - whether it be air or water - tnrough which the ...
... moving power . The general shape of a bird is something like the shape of a fish ; the object being the same in both , namely , to offer as little resistance as possible to the medium - whether it be air or water - tnrough which the ...
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Page 182 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 39 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 34 - Now at last we see the full use of every part of the flower, of the water-secreting horns, of the bucket half full of water, which prevents the bees from flying away, and forces them to crawl out through the spout, and rub against the properly placed viscid pollenmasses and the viscid stigma.
Page 200 - The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air, but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterwards. Who can tell but that in time this pure air may become a fashionable .article 1 Lee. cit. p. 94. in luxury ? Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it.
Page 34 - Catasetum, is widely different, though serving the same end; and is equally curious. Bees visit these flowers, like those of the Coryanthes, in order to gnaw the labellum; in doing this they inevitably touch a long, tapering, sensitive projection, or, as I have called it, the antenna. This antenna, when touched, transmits a sensation or vibration to a certain membrane which...
Page 95 - ... electricity,' and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk : but what is it ? What made it ? Whence comes it ? Whither goes it ? Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle ; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever...
Page 34 - When the bee, thus provided, flies to another flower, or to the same flower a second time, and is pushed by its comrades into the bucket and then crawls out by the passage, the pollen-mass necessarily comes first into contact with the viscid stigma, and adheres to it, and the flower is fertilised.
Page 95 - At bottom we do not yet know ; we can never know at alL It is not by our superior insight that we escape the difficulty ; it is by our superior levity, our inattention, our want of insight. It is by not thinking that we cease to wonder at it. Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form, is a wrappage of traditions, hearsays, mere words. We call that fire of the black thunder- cloud
Page 95 - We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud 'electricity,' and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? "What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? Science has done much for us ; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle ; wonderful, inscrutable,...
Page 184 - ... themselves when they heard I was to preach for him. But visiting that country some years afterwards, when I had raised myself to some degree of notice in the world, and being invited to preach in that very pulpit, the same people crowded to hear me, though my elocution was not much improved, and they professed to admire one -of the same discourses they had formerly despised.