 | Elisabeth Jay - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 240 pages
...by mere pressure, without any machinery, by merely being placed in one particular way, produce very irresistible force? What can be more strange, than...pounds by the intervention of a few bars of thin iron? Can anything surprise us more than to find that the colour white is a mixture of all others? that water... | |
 | 1828 - 484 pages
...astonishing than the fact, that a few pounds of water may, by mere pressure, without any machinery, by merely being placed in a particular way, produce an...extraordinary truths which Optical Science discloses. Can anything surprise us more, than to find that the colour of white is a mixture of all others — that... | |
 | 1828 - 506 pages
...astonishing than the fact, that a few pounds of water may, by mere pressure, without any machinery, by merely being placed in a particular way, produce an...extraordinary truths which Optical Science discloses. Can anything surprise us more, than to find that the colour of white is a mixture of all others — that... | |
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... by mere pressure, without any machinery, by merely being placed in a particular way, produce an irresistible force? What can be more strange, than that an ounce weight should balance hundreds of pounds, by the intervention of a few bars of thin iron... 
