The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
| 1 | |
| 26 | |
| 33 | |
| 53 | |
| 61 | |
| 73 | |
| 79 | |
| 92 | |
| 347 | |
| 354 | |
| 371 | |
| 378 | |
| 392 | |
| 398 | |
| 428 | |
| 435 | |
| 104 | |
| 112 | |
| 117 | |
| 127 | |
| 142 | |
| 148 | |
| 154 | |
| 160 | |
| 175 | |
| 185 | |
| 187 | |
| 198 | |
| 213 | |
| 227 | |
| 233 | |
| 239 | |
| 268 | |
| 284 | |
| 290 | |
| 299 | |
| 317 | |
| 321 | |
| 331 | |
| 445 | |
| 459 | |
| 468 | |
| 477 | |
| 504 | |
| 523 | |
| 529 | |
| 541 | |
| 547 | |
| 549 | |
| 1 | |
| 8 | |
| 21 | |
| 28 | |
| 42 | |
| 59 | |
| 69 | |
| 75 | |
| 81 | |
| 519 | |
| 534 | |
| 542 | |
| 548 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
according acid action amount angle appear axes battery becomes bismuth bodies carbonic cause circuit clear Cloudy colour combination common condition consequently considerable considered consisting contains copper corresponding crystals deflection described direction distance effect electricity employed equal equation exhibited exist expansion experiments fact figure fluid force former give given glass greater heat homogeneous functions inch increase intensity iron latter lead length less light lines liquid magnetic manner means metal motion moving nature needle object observed obtained optic particles pass phænomena plane plate polarized portion positive present produced quantity rays reference relation remains remarkable respect rubian seen separated shown side similar single solid solution structure substance sulphuric supposed surface temperature theory thickness tion voltaic wire zinc
Popular passages
Page 66 - How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 304 - Within a finite period of time past, the earth must have been, and within a finite period of time to come, the earth must again be, unfit for the habitation of man as at present constituted, unless operations have been, or are to be performed, which are impossible under the laws to which the known operations going on at present in the material world are subject.
Page 409 - It has never been resolved into simpler or elementary influences, and may perhaps best be conceived of as an axis of power having contrary forces, exactly equal in amount, in contrary directions.
Page 243 - What would be the visual effect of simultaneously presenting to each eye, instead of the object itself, its projection on a plane surface as it appears to that eye...
Page 134 - According to it, the equivalent weights of bodies are simply those quantities of them which contain equal quantities of electricity, or have naturally equal electric powers ; it being the ELECTRICITY which determines the equivalent number, because it determines the combining force. Or, if we adopt the atomic theory or phraseology, then the atoms of bodies which are equivalents to each other in their ordinary chemical action, have equal quantities of electricity naturally associated with them.
Page 304 - There is at present in the material world a universal tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy.
Page 9 - When equal quantities of mechanical effect are produced by any means whatever from purely thermal sources, or lost in purely thermal effects, equal quantities of heat are put out of existence or are generated.
Page 265 - It may be said, this indistinctness and duplicity is not attended to, because the eyes shifting continually from point to point, every part of the object is successively rendered distinct ; and the perception of the object is not the consequence of a single glance, during which only a small part of it is seen distinctly, but is formed from a comparison of all the pictures successively seen while the eyes are changing from one point of the object to another. All this...
Page 539 - And in order that my invention may be most fully understood, and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me in carrying out my invention.
Page 333 - ... in direct proportion to the absolute quantity of electricity which passes. 378. Hence arises still further confirmation, if any were required, of the identity of common and voltaic electricity...