Nature, Volume 77Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1908 |
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Page 265 - Saxon portion of it to the end of the ninth or the beginning of the tenth century.
Page 3 - The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt : it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest ; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
Page 307 - ... and in the philosophical division of the classes of bodies, the analogy between the greater number of properties must always be the foundation of arrangement. On this idea, in naming the bases of potash and soda, it will be proper to adopt the termination which, by common consent, has been applied to other newly discovered metals, and which, though originally Latin, is now naturalized in our language.
Page 76 - Nests and Eggs of Birds found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania, by AJ North, vol.
Page 306 - Some people say I ought not to accept this prize, and there have been foolish paragraphs in the papers to that effect ; but if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would indeed be a civil war of the worst description ; we should rather, through the instrumentality of men of science, soften the asperities of national hostility.
Page 286 - College, has been appointed a member of the council of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty.
Page 2 - In studying this Fourth state of Matter we seem at length to have within our grasp and obedient to our control the little indivisible particles which with good warrant are supposed to constitute the physical basis of the universe.
Page 305 - Sir Joseph Banks, Count Rumford, and other distinguished philosophers were present. The audience were highly gratified, and testified their satisfaction by general applause. Mr. Davy, who appears to be very young, acquitted himself admirably well; from the sparkling intelligence of his eye, his animated manner, and the tout ensemble, we have no doubt of his attaining a distinguished eminence.
Page 306 - Why, Davy can eat them all ! There is an energy, an elasticity, in his mind which enables him to seize on and analyse all questions, pushing them to their legitimate consequences. Every subject in Davy's mind has the principle of vitality. Living thoughts spring up like turf under his feet.
Page 307 - There was a violent effervescence at the upper surface; as the lower, or negative surface, there was no liberation of elastic fluid; but small globules having a high metallic lustre, and being precisely similar in visible characters to quicksilver, appeared, some of which burnt with...