Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 17 |
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Page xxvii - I am busy just now again on electromagnetism, and think I have got hold of a good thing, but can't say. It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I may at last pull up.
Page 151 - The PRESIDENT then delivered his Address, (p. 65.) It was proposed by Mr. LATHAM, seconded by Mr. FIELD, and resolved:— " That the thanks of the Society be given to the President for his Address, and that he be requested to allow it to be printed in the Quarterly Journal of the Society.
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Page 360 - It is therefore evident that the great thing to be aimed at is an absolutely uniform source of light. In the ordinary process of photometry the standard used is a candle, defined by Act of Parliament as a "sperm candle of six to the pound, burning at the rate of 120 grains per hour.
Page lxviii - I was a very lively imaginative person, and could believe in the 'Arabian Nights,' as easily as in the 'Encyclopaedia.' But facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs.
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Page xxx - The Committee are certainly of opinion that no reduction can be made in Mr. Faraday's salary — £100 per annum, house, coals, and candles; and beg to express their regret that the circumstances of the Institution are not such as to justify their proposing such an increase of it as the variety of duties which Mr. Faraday has to perform, and the zeal and ability with which he performs them, appear to merit.
Page 527 - Whilst an apprentice I loved to read the scientific books which were under my hands, and, amongst them, delighted in Marcet's " Conversations in Chemistry," and the electrical treatises in the
Page 397 - ... in a state of high chemical tension, will, by their tendency to develop those vibrations, either determine the explosion of that substance, or at any rate greatly aid the disturbing effect of mechanical force suddenly applied ; while in the...
Page 352 - ... supposed to be due to the same cause, namely, the presence to a greater or less extent of a relatively cooler absorbing atmosphere ; thus suggesting as one cause of the darkening of a spot — 1.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 17 |
| Author | Royal Society (Great Britain) |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, 1869 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2008 |
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