 | 1827 - 618 pages
...the ceiling of the room (provided it made a vacuum) more than our whole weight, namely, a weight of fifteen stone, the fly can easily move on four feet...It has likewise been found that some of the larger sea animals are by the same construction, only upon a greater scale, enabled to climb the perpendicular... | |
 | English literature - 1827 - 608 pages
...compared to the weight of the fly ; for if its feet are to its body in the same proportion as ours are to our bodies, since we could support by a single...vacuum) more than our whole weight, namely, a weight of fifteen stone, the fly can easily move on four feet in the same manner by help of tin.- vacuum made... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1827 - 68 pages
...compared to the weight of the fly ; for if its feet are to its body in the same proportion as ours are to our bodies, since we could support by a single...vacuum) more than our whole weight, namely, a weight of fifteen stone, the fly can easily move on four feet in the same manner by help of the vacuum made under... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Mathematics - 1828 - 248 pages
...compared to the weight of the fly ; for if its feet are to its body in the same proportion as ours are to our bodies, since we could support by a single...manner by help of the vacuum made under its feet. OBJECTS, ADVANTAGES, AND [This Cut represents the foot of a common fly, and of a grasshopper, magnified... | |
 | William Daniel Conybeare - Theology - 1831 - 188 pages
...compared to the weight of the fly ; for if its feet are to its body in the same proportion as ours are to our bodies, since we could support by a single...vacuum) more than our whole weight, namely, a weight of fifteen H2 (tone, the fly can easily move on four feet in the same manner by help of the vacuum made... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...compared to the weight of the fly; for if its feet are to its body in the same proportion as ours are to our bodies, since we could support by a single...vacuum) more than our whole weight, namely, a weight of fifteen stone, the fly can easily move on four feet in the same manner by help of the vacuum made under... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...compared to the weight of the fly ; for if its feet are to its body in the same proportion as ours are to our bodies, since we could support by a single...vacuum) more than our whole weight, namely, a weight of fifteen stone, the fly can easily move on four feet in the same manner by help of the vacuum made under... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1832 - 510 pages
...are to its body in the same proportion as ours are to our bodies, since we could support by a smgle hand on the ceiling of the room (provided it made...vacuum) more than our whole weight, namely, a weight of fifteen stone, the fly can easily move on four feet in the same manner by help of the vacuum made under... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1836 - 226 pages
...compared with the weight of the fly ; for, if its feet are to its body in the same proportion as ours are to our bodies, since we could support by a single...more than our whole weight, '; namely, a weight of fifteen stone, the fly can easily move on four feet in the same manner, by help of the vacuum made... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...compared with the weight of the fly ; for, if its feet arc to its body in the same proportion as ours are to our bodies, since we could support by a single...vacuum,) more than our whole weight, namely, a weight of fifteen stone, the fly can easily move on four feet in the same manner, by help of the vacuum made... | |
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... between the foot and the glass or wall. The consequence of this is, that the air presses the foot on the wall with a very considerable force compared to the weight of the fly ; for if its feet are to its body in the same... 
