Lives of Philosophers of the Time of George III.R. Griffin, 1855 - 492 pages |
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... doctrine " admirably tallies with all the phenomena , yet it ascribes to fixed air properties which really make it a new body or ex- istence " ( " forment réellement un nouvel etre " ) . * In order to estimate the importance of this ...
... doctrine " admirably tallies with all the phenomena , yet it ascribes to fixed air properties which really make it a new body or ex- istence " ( " forment réellement un nouvel etre " ) . * In order to estimate the importance of this ...
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... doctrines of the connection between fermenta- tion and digestion treated with ridicule , and those who adopted them jocularly called the " fermentateurs . " 6 A few years later , however , the face of things changed . In the ...
... doctrines of the connection between fermenta- tion and digestion treated with ridicule , and those who adopted them jocularly called the " fermentateurs . " 6 A few years later , however , the face of things changed . In the ...
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... doctrine made its way in France may be presumed from Morveau's remark on causticity , already cited , and also from this , that the article on ' Magnesia , ' published in 1765 , dogmatically asserts Black to be in error when he ...
... doctrine made its way in France may be presumed from Morveau's remark on causticity , already cited , and also from this , that the article on ' Magnesia , ' published in 1765 , dogmatically asserts Black to be in error when he ...
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... doctrine , and aban- doned the fanciful hypothesis , simple and ingenious though it be , of Stahl . Berthollet , the earliest con- vert , had come over to the truth two years before . Thus , discoveries had been made which laid the foun ...
... doctrine , and aban- doned the fanciful hypothesis , simple and ingenious though it be , of Stahl . Berthollet , the earliest con- vert , had come over to the truth two years before . Thus , discoveries had been made which laid the foun ...
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... doctrine of latent heat , however , was immediately applied by all philo- sophers to the production of the different airs which were successively discovered . They were found to owe their permanently elastic state to the heat absorbed ...
... doctrine of latent heat , however , was immediately applied by all philo- sophers to the production of the different airs which were successively discovered . They were found to owe their permanently elastic state to the heat absorbed ...
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Page 54 - Who directing the Force of an Original Genius Early exercised in Philosophic Research To the Improvement of The...
Page 262 - I might be inclined to entertain some such thought; but a great flood stops me in my course. Opposuit natura — I cannot remove the eternal barriers of the creation. The thing, in that mode, I do not know to be possible. As I meddle with no theory, I do not absolutely assert the impracticability of such a representation. But I do not see my way to it ; and those who have been more confident have not been more successful.
Page 283 - The life which I led at Glasgow was a pleasurable dissipated life in comparison of that which I lead here at Present. I have begun to write a book in order to pass away the time.
Page 415 - D'Alembert. But in the meantime Matthew Stewart, (Life of Simson, p. 137,) had undertaken to assail this question by the mere help of the ancient geometry, and had marvellously succeeded in reconciling the Newtonian theory with observation. Father Walmisley, a young English priest of the Benedictine order, also gave an analytical solution of the difficulty in 1749. The other great problem, the investigation of which occupied D'Alembert, was the Precession of the equinoxes and the Nutation of the...
Page 228 - ... that insidious and crafty animal, vulgarly called a statesman or politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuations of affairs.
Page 58 - ... four-fifths of the common air employed ; so that as common air cannot be reduced to a much less bulk than that by any method of phlogistication, we may safely conclude, that when they are mixed in this proportion, and exploded, almost all the inflammable air, and about one-fifth part of the common air, lose their elasticity, and are condensed into the dew which lines the glass.
Page 52 - ... and encouragement to all young persons who showed any indications of talent, or applied to him for patronage or advice. His health, which was delicate from his youth upwards, seemed to become firmer as he advanced in years, and he preserved up almost to the last moment of his existence, not only the full command of his extraordinary intellect, but all the alacrity of spirit, and the social gaiety which had illumined his happiest days.
Page 203 - ... seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society, with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board: he does not consider that the pieces upon the chessboard have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.
Page 314 - Lavoisier, as well as of the conclusion drawn from them, that dephlogisticated air is only water deprived of its phlogiston ; but, at that time, so far was M. Lavoisier from thinking any such opinion warranted, that till he was prevailed upon to repeat the experiment himself, he found some difficulty in believing that nearly the whole of the two airs could be converted into water.
Page 65 - Lavoisier, that Mr. Cavendish had drawn his conclusion before April 1783, although in one of the additions to that paper reference is made to Mr. Watt's theory. As great obscurity hangs over the material question at what time Mr. Cavendish first drew the conclusion from his experiment, it may be as well to examine what that great man's habit was in communicating his discoveries to the Royal Society.