An Experimental Inquiry Into the Cause of the Changes of Colours in Opake and Coloured Bodies: With an Historical Preface Relative to the Parts of Philosophy Therein Examined, and to the Several Arts and Manufactures Dependent on ThemJ. Nourse, 1777 - 138 pages |
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An Experimental Inquiry Into the Cause of the Changes of Colours in Opake ... Edward Hussey Delaval No preview available - 2018 |
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Acid affez Ainfi Alcali alfo Aqua Fortis aqua regia auffi autre avoir bien boëte bout C'eft c'est-à-dire calcined chaleur spécifique Changes of Colour Chym ci-defsùs colonne comm confiderable corps dans le degré deux différence diffolved doit être du Barometre échelle eſt étoit exemple expériences expofed Fahrenheit fait fame fans faut fe trouve fecond felon fenfible fera fimilar foit folution fome font fubftances fuch fupérieure furface Glafs glaſs Green Green Vitriol hauteur du Barometre heat inftrument Iron j'ai jufqu'à l'air l'atmoſphere l'autre l'eau l'échelle l'on le mercure le Thermometre ligne Liquor lorfque mercure metal milliemes moſt moyene n'eft Nitre Nitrous Acid nombre Nonius obfervations parceque particles petit peut pouces Anglois premier produit Purple qu'il qu'on quantité quelques refervoir Strabo temperature tems thefe Thermometre theſe thofe thoſe tige tion tout tuyau uſed vaiffeau Vitriol Water Yellow δὲ καὶ τὰ τῶν
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Page iii - ... them; and that these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Page iv - ... they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed. Water and earth composed of old worn particles and fragments of particles, would not be of the same nature and texture now with water and earth composed of entire particles in the beginning. And therefore that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations and new associations and motions of these permanent particles; compound bodies being apt to...
Page 165 - Essai sur la nouvelle théorie du feu élémentaire et de la chaleur des corps.
Page 83 - Description et usages des Nouveaux Barometres, pour mesurer la Hauteur des Montagnes et la Profondeur des Mines, appartenants aux Collections d'Instrumens d'Astronomie et de Physique, faits...
Page 5 - Rays of one Colour, and tranfmit thofe of another ', on the fame grounds that thin Plates or Bubbles do reJleSt or tranfmit thofe Rays.
Page iii - All thefe things being confidered, it feems " probable to me, that God in the beginning formed " Matter in folid, mafly, hard, impenetrable, move...
Page 179 - On fait, par expérience, que tous les animaux qui ont des poumons . ont leur fang beaucoup plus chaud que ceux qui n'en ont point. C'eft même une règle générale que le fâng de ceux qui ont des poumons , cil d'autant plus chaud, que leurs poumons font plus grands.
Page 71 - Les chaux mercurielles que j'ai traitées , font au nombre de quatre: les deux premières ont été faites par l'intermède de l'acide nitreux & de l'acide marin , & toutes deux féparées de ces acides par...
Page iii - But mould they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed. Water and Earth, compofed of old worn Particles and Fragments of Particles, would not be of the fame Nature and Texture now, with Water and Earth compofed of entire Particles in the Beginning. And therefore...
Page xxxvi - And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn; and the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price