The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonHarper & Bros., 1843 - 314 páginas |
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... Heat - On Fire and Flame - On Elective Attraction - On the Structure of Bodies - His supposed Attachment to Alchymy - His Hypothesis respecting Ether as the Cause of Light and Gravity -On the Excitation of Electricity in Glass - His ...
... Heat - On Fire and Flame - On Elective Attraction - On the Structure of Bodies - His supposed Attachment to Alchymy - His Hypothesis respecting Ether as the Cause of Light and Gravity -On the Excitation of Electricity in Glass - His ...
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... heat - they illuminate -they promote chymical combination - they effect chymical decompositions - they impart magnetism to steel they alter the colours of bodies - thev communicate to plants and flowers their peculiar colours , and 92 ...
... heat - they illuminate -they promote chymical combination - they effect chymical decompositions - they impart magnetism to steel they alter the colours of bodies - thev communicate to plants and flowers their peculiar colours , and 92 ...
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... heat , according as it pro- duces a temporary or a permanent change in the relative position of the molecules . This is not the place to enlarge on this subject ; but we may be permitted to apply the idea to the curious experi- ment of ...
... heat , according as it pro- duces a temporary or a permanent change in the relative position of the molecules . This is not the place to enlarge on this subject ; but we may be permitted to apply the idea to the curious experi- ment of ...
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... heat , are endowed with a repulsive force which prevents them from accumulating when in a state of conden- sation , or when they are detained by the absorptive action of opaque bodies , will be readily admitted . By this power a beam of ...
... heat , are endowed with a repulsive force which prevents them from accumulating when in a state of conden- sation , or when they are detained by the absorptive action of opaque bodies , will be readily admitted . By this power a beam of ...
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... heat of the summer and the autumnal sun . In the century which preceded the birth of New- ton the science of astronomy advanced with the most rapid steps . Emerging from the darkness of the middle ages , the human mind seemed to rejoice ...
... heat of the summer and the autumnal sun . In the century which preceded the birth of New- ton the science of astronomy advanced with the most rapid steps . Emerging from the darkness of the middle ages , the human mind seemed to rejoice ...
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