The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

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Page 239 - Elements of Chemistry, including the most recent discoveries and applications of the Science to Medicine and Pharmacy, and to the Arts. By ROBERT KANE, MD, MRIA, Professor of Natural Philosophy to the Royal Dublin Society ; Professor of Chemistry to the Apothecaries
Page 17 - So difficult is it to judge from the aspect of a country whether or not it is healthy, that if a person had been told to choose within the tropics a situation appearing favourable for health, very probably he would have named this coast.
Page 342 - to descend perpendicularly from a vast height. It evidently fell by its specific gravity, and was not shot or propelled by any extraneous force. On approaching the earth with accelerated motion, it assumed a dazzling whiteness, and an elongated form, and dashing to the ground in Beckwith Square, opposite the stores of Messrs.
Page 499 - Illustrations of Arts and Manufactures; being a selection from a Series of Papers read before the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. By Arthur Aikin, FLS, FGS, &c.
Page 566 - limite mundi)—almost simultaneously, overleaped at three different points. It is the greatest and most glorious triumph which practical astronomy has ever witnessed. Perhaps I ought not to speak so strongly—perhaps I should hold some reserve in favour of the bare possibility that it may be all an illusion—and that further researches, as they have repeatedly before, so may now fail to
Page 158 - the operation, the patient described his visual perception as being that of an extensive field of light, in which everything appeared dull, confused, and in motion, and in which no object was distinguishable. On repeating the experiment
Page 231 - By the Rev. J. CHALLIS, MA, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy in the University of Cambridge*.
Page 158 - watery spheres, which moved with the movements of the eye, but when the eye was at rest remained stationary, and their margins partially covering one another. Two days after this the same phenomena were observed, but the spheres were less opake and somewhat transparent; their movements
Page 548 - inferred how very little real knowledge has yet been obtained respecting the nature of the shooting-stars. It is certain that they appear at great altitudes above the earth, and that they move with prodigious velocity; but everything else respecting them is involved in profound mystery. From the
Page 17 - The miasma is not always produced by a luxuriant vegetation with an ardent climate; for many parts of Brazil, even where there are marshes and a rank vegetation, are much more healthy than this sterile coast of Peru.

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