The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, Volume 15Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1864 - Industrial arts |
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Page 350 - Book of Facts in Science and Art, exhibiting the most important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Meteorology, Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, Antiquities, etc.
Page 308 - Thus, by means of repeated selection alone, the length of the ears has been doubled, their contents nearly trebled, and the "tillering" power of the seed increased five-fold.
Page 329 - ... but the larger have for the most part flat bottoms, within, from which rises centrally a small, steep, conical hill. They offer, in short, in its highest perfection, the true volcanic character as it may be seen in the crater of Vesuvius, and in a map of the volcanic districts of the Campi Phlegraei or the Puy de Dome.
Page 172 - It is conceivable that the various kinds of matter, now recognized as different elementary substances, may possess one and the same ultimate or atomic molecule existing in different conditions of movement. The essential unity of matter is a hypothesis in harmony with the equal action of gravity upon all bodies.
Page 218 - Mont Maudit, the snow suddenly gave way beneath our feet, beginning at the head of the line, and carried us all down the slope to our left. I was thrown instantly off my feet, but was still on my knees and endeavouring to regain my footing, when, in a few seconds, the snow on our right, which was of course above us, rushed into the gap thus suddenly made, and completed the catastrophe by burying...