Scientific Dialogues: Intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young People: in which the First Principles of Natural and Experimental Philosophy are Fully Explained, כרך 1J. Grigg, T. Desilver, 1829 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 32
עמוד 9
... understand the operations of nature , as well as the works of ingenious artists . These , I trust , will lead you , insensibly , to admire the wisdom and good- ness by means of which the whole system of the universe is constructed and ...
... understand the operations of nature , as well as the works of ingenious artists . These , I trust , will lead you , insensibly , to admire the wisdom and good- ness by means of which the whole system of the universe is constructed and ...
עמוד 12
... understand this , for if in the second figure I were to describe the angle by the letter B only , you would not know whether I meant the angle ABC or ABD . Father . That is the precise reason why it is necessary in most descriptions to ...
... understand this , for if in the second figure I were to describe the angle by the letter B only , you would not know whether I meant the angle ABC or ABD . Father . That is the precise reason why it is necessary in most descriptions to ...
עמוד 14
... understand what philosophers mean when they make use of the word matter ? Emma . Are not all things which we see and feel composed of matter ? Father . Every thing which is the object of our senses is composed of matter differently mo ...
... understand what philosophers mean when they make use of the word matter ? Emma . Are not all things which we see and feel composed of matter ? Father . Every thing which is the object of our senses is composed of matter differently mo ...
עמוד 19
... understand it . Are there not , papa , seve- ral kinds of gravity ? Father . Yes , there are ; two of which it will be sufficient for our present purpose to describe ; the one is the attraction of cohesion ; the other that of ...
... understand it . Are there not , papa , seve- ral kinds of gravity ? Father . Yes , there are ; two of which it will be sufficient for our present purpose to describe ; the one is the attraction of cohesion ; the other that of ...
עמוד 22
... understand this ? Father . I will endeavour to remove your diffi- culty . Heat expands all bodies without excep- tion , as you shall see before we have finished our lectures . Now the fire applied to metals in or- der to melt them ...
... understand this ? Father . I will endeavour to remove your diffi- culty . Heat expands all bodies without excep- tion , as you shall see before we have finished our lectures . Now the fire applied to metals in or- der to melt them ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
advantage gained angle appear astronomers attraction of cohesion attraction of gravitation axis ball body called centre of gravity centre of motion Charles clock consequently CONVERSATION days and nights degrees diameter distance diurnal motion earth ecliptic Emma Ephemeris equal equator explain fall Father feet fixed stars force fulcrum full moon globe greater half heat heavens hemisphere hence Herschel horizon inch inclined plane James journey Jupiter kind law of motion length less lever light line of direction marble Mars matter means mechanical power Mercury millions of miles minutes moon's move nearer observe orbit papa perpendicular philosophy planets polar circles poles pound pound weight principle proportion pulleys rays reason retrograde motion revolves rise rotation round the sun Saturn screw seen sidereal day Solar System space passed sun's superior planets suppose surface tides tion turn Tutor velocity Venus visible wedge weight
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 223 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
עמוד 206 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
עמוד 75 - Powers, are certain simple instruments, commonly employed for raising greater weights, or overcoming greater resistances, than could be effected by the natural strength without them. These are usually accounted six in number, viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw.
עמוד 250 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
עמוד 120 - To ask or search I blame thee not, for heaven Is as the book of God before thee set, Wherein to read his wondrous works, and learn His seasons, hours, or days, or months, or years.
עמוד 188 - evidence of things not seen," in the fulness of Divine grace ; and was profound on this, the greatest concern of human life, while unable even to comprehend how the " inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit" could be the cause of the change of the seasons.
עמוד 239 - Lo ! from the dread immensity of space Returning, with accelerated course, The rushing comet to the Sun descends ; And as he sinks below the shading earth, With awful train projected o'er the Heavens, The guilty nations tremble.
עמוד 198 - Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
עמוד 60 - It is a law of nature, with respect to matter, that every motion and change of motion is proportional to the force impressed, and in the direction of that force.
עמוד 196 - But opposite in levell'd west was set His mirror, with full face borrowing her light From him, for other light she needed none In that aspect, and still that distance keeps Till night...