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300 Vibrations reduced angle appear Barometer blue branch carbonic acid centre circle co-ordinates colour conducting power conic sections copper cos² cosec curve CYLINDER diffusion diffusion-volume Edinburgh electrometer equation experiment fish FLAT NEEDLE fluid gases given HANSTEEN's Standard heat hectemoria hence hydrogen inches inquiry intersection JAMES BERNOULLI July July 16 July 29 latitude light lines logarithmic spiral loxodrome magnetic Mean 13 meridian metals method millimetres nitrous acid observations obtain oscillation P. M. Chronometer gaining paper plane polar pole prime meridian Professor projection quantity radius Rate of Chron Rate of Chronometer rays REAUM reduced to HANSTEEN's refrangible remark rivers salmon shew shewn sin² smolt spawning sphere spherical surface tan² tangent temperature Ther Thermom tion trout tube vendace Vibs yellow аф
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Page 573 - HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY ON THE MORE NORTHERN COASTS OF NORTH AMERICA.
Page 444 - He states, as a general conclusion, "that the arrangement of metallic conductors of heat does not differ more from that of those of electricity than either arrangement does alone under the hands of different observers.
Page 458 - The vibrations take place with an intensity proportional (within certain limits) to the difference of the conducting powers of the metals for heat, the metal having the least conducting power being necessarily the coldest.
Page 201 - The other extremity f, of the helical wire communicated by means of the cup of mercury i, with the iron wire g, the fine point of which may be brought by the hand into contact with the surface of the mercury in h, and separated from it at the instant when the contact of the connector ab, with the poles of the magnet is effected. The spark is produced in the tube h.
Page 539 - The transparent parts of bodies, according to their several sizes, reflect rays of one colour, and transmit those of another, on the same grounds that thin plates or bubbles do reflect or transmit these rays; and this I take to be the ground of all their colours.
Page 514 - We are yet imperfectly acquainted with the natural history of the herring. Its winter habitation has generally been supposed within the arctic circle, under the vast fields of ice which float on the northern ocean, where it fattens on the swarms of shrimps and other marine insects which are said to be most abundant in those seas.