| 1827 - 698 pages
...Mechanical Philosophy. How wonderfid are the laws that regulate the motions of fluids ! Is there anything in all the idle books of tales and horrors more truly...extraordinary truths which Optical Science discloses. Can anything surprise us more, than to find that the colour of white is a mixture of all others — that... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 600 pages
...'the idle books of tales and horrors more truly astonishing than the fact, that a few pounds of \vater may, by mere pressure, without any machinery, by merely...pounds, by the intervention of a few bars of thin iron ? ObfceHre the extraordinary truths which Optical Science discloses. Can any tiling surprise us more,... | |
| 1828 - 496 pages
...books of tales and, horrors more truly astonishing than the fact, that a few pounds of water niay, by mere pressure, without any machinery, by merely...intervention of a few bars of thin iron ? Observe tha extraordinary truths which Optical Science discloses. Can anything surprise us more, than to find... | |
| 1832 - 510 pages
...Recollect some of the extraordinary discoveries of mechanical philosophy. How wonderful are the laws that regulate the motions of fluids ! Is there any thing...pounds, by the intervention of a few bars of thin iron 1 Observe the extraordinary truths which optical science discloses. Can any thing surprise us more,... | |
| 1833 - 436 pages
...prevent children from bon» fitting by the. excellent Ьэяот of .Mm. Barbauld and Мин Edgrwortli. that a few pounds of water may, by mere pressure,...strange, than that an ounce weight should balance hundred« of pounds, by the intervention of a few bars ol thin iron] Observe the extraordinary truths... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1833 - 458 pages
...powerful and astonishing effects. " What can be more strange," says a profound and energetic writer,* " than that an ounce weight should balance hundreds...by the intervention of a few bars of thin iron'!" And when we consider that all the mechanical powers may be reduced to the lever, the wheel and axle,... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1838 - 690 pages
...powerful and as-ouishing effects. " What can be more strange (says a profound and energetic wri er*) than that an ounce weight should balance hundreds...pounds by the intervention of a few bars of thin iron ?" And when we consider that all the mechanical powers may be reduced t'i the /ever, the wheel and... | |
| Henry Mayhew - 1842 - 58 pages
...of tales and horrors more truly astonishing than the fact, that a few pounds of water may, by simple pressure, without any machinery, by merely being placed...balance hundreds of pounds by the intervention of a few thin bars of iron? Observe the extraordinary truths which optical science discloses. Can anything surprise... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1843 - 342 pages
...Mechanical Philosophy. How wonderful are tin laws that regulate the motions of fluids ! Is there anything in all the idle books of tales and horrors more truly...few bars of thin iron ? Observe the extraordinary * Children's Books have at all times been made upon the pernicious plan of exciting wonder, generally... | |
| Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 pages
...mechanical philosophy. How wonderful are the laws that regulate the motions of fluids ! Is there anything in all the idle books of tales and horrors more truly...extraordinary truths which optical science discloses. Can anything surprise us * ChiUren't Books have at all times been made upon the pernicious plan of exciting... | |
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