Nature, Volume 66

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Sir Norman Lockyer
Macmillan Journals Limited, 1902 - Electronic journals
 

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Page 192 - The Lord at thy right hand: Shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies : He shall wound the heads over many countries. He shall drink of the brook in the way : Therefore shall he lift up the head.
Page 189 - INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY. The Principles of Theoretical and Systematic Chemistry. With 5 Woodcuts. With or without the ANSWERS of Problems.
Page 257 - For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the earth and putting new mould about the roots that must work it.
Page 198 - If two triangles have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other and the sides about these equal angles proportional, the triangles are similar.
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Page 120 - I can discover no logical haltingplace between the admission that such is the case, and the further concession that all vital action may,, with equal propriety, be said to be the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. And if so, it must be true, in the same...
Page 208 - ... through the wall from the air on one side to the air on the other side, and second, by actual leakage of warmer or colder air into the building.
Page 34 - This committee, after holding eleven meetings and collecting a quantity of evidence, has just published its report, which has been adopted by the council of the Institution. As the subject is one of vital importance, not only to the electrical profession, but to the whole nation, it will be of interest to consider this report in some detail. By their first resolution the committee state that " the development of electrical science in the United Kingdom is in a backward condition as compared with...
Page 99 - ... from the southwest in the northern hemisphere and from the northwest in the southern hemisphere.

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