Nature, Volume 81

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Sir Norman Lockyer
Macmillan Journals Limited, 1909 - Electronic journals
 

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Page 304 - And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length, and the breadth, and the height of it are equal.
Page 52 - The first thing is good stock, and the second thing is good stock, and the third thing is good stock, and when you have paid attention to these three things, fit environment will keep your material in good condition. No environment or educational grindstone is of service unless the tool to be ground is of genuine steel — of tough race and tempered stock.
Page 254 - ... unelectrified ones, that we shall obtain a knowledge of the ultimate structure of electricity before we arrive at a corresponding degree of certainty with regard to the structure of matter. We have already made considerable progress in the task of discovering what the structure of electricity is. We have known for some time that of one kind of electricity — the negative — and a very interesting one it is. We know that negative electricity is made up of units all of which are of the same kind;...
Page 94 - ... purposes of the smelter or for use in the Arts and Manufactures, and they usually have to undergo a series of operations, at times extremely simple, but at others also highly elaborate, in order to fit them for such use, and it is to this series of operations that the term "Dressing" is applied. The object of the present work is to give an account of the theory and practice of the Dressing of Minerals, which will, I hope, prove useful to the miner or metallurgist who desires to understand the...
Page 260 - As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but we do not see our goal, we do not see the horizon ; in the distance tower still higher peaks, which will yield to those who ascend them still wider prospects...
Page 260 - ... full of hope. And they have ground for hopefulness, for they live in stirring times. "The new discoveries," said JJ Thomson recently, "made in physics during the last few years, and the ideas and potentialities suggested by them, have had an effect upon workers in that field akin to that produced by the Renaissance. Enthusiasm has been quickened, and there is a hopeful, youthful, perhaps exuberant, spirit abroad which leads men to make with confidence experiments that would have been thought...
Page 106 - My mother was the most profoundly and sincerely religious woman with whom I was ever intimately acquainted, and my father always entertained and expressed the highest admiration for her mental gifts, to which he attributed whatever talents his children might have possessed.
Page 130 - On a sudden we heard what seemed to be the report of a gun fired at the distance of between five and six miles. It was not the hollow sound of an earthly explosion, or the sharp cracking noise of falling timber, but in every way resembled a discharge of a heavy piece of ordnance. On this all were agreed, but no one was certain whence the sound proceeded.
Page 198 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 255 - ... mathematicians. Some years before the discovery of corpuscles it had been shown by a mathematical investigation that the mass of a body must be increased by a charge of electricity. This increase, however, is greater for small bodies than for large ones, and even bodies as small as atoms are hopelessly too large to show any appreciable effect ; thus the result seemed entirely academic. After a time corpuscles were discovered, and these are so much smaller than the atom that the increase in mass...

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