| Richard Kirwan - Mineralogy - 1784 - 438 pages
...this method the elevation of mountains is determined by the different heights of 2 columns of mercury, one at the top and the other at the bottom of the mountain, the degree gree of heat of each being equal, or reduced to an equality, and the common temperature... | |
| Science - 1815 - 1036 pages
...which though imperceptible might have affected its gravity. The thermometers were sometimes placed one at the top, and the other at the bottom of the vessel, in order to ascertain beyond doubt the temperatures at the initial points, or the extremes... | |
| Agriculture - 1823 - 504 pages
...which though imperceptible might have affected its gravity. The thermometers were sometimes placed one at the top, and the other at the bottom of the vessel, in order to ascertain beyond doubt the temperatures at the initial points, or the extremes... | |
| James Harmer - Trials (Murder) - 1825 - 126 pages
...came to the pond; but, on going to the spot, I was surprised to find that there are two turnstiles— one at the top, and the other at the bottom of the avenue; the opening, between the posts are extremely narrow, so that a full grown person can, with... | |
| Thomas Sandwith - Human anatomy - 1825 - 244 pages
...tongue, to which the larynx ascends; when we swallow, and closes the glottis. Birds have two larynxes, one at the top, and the other at the bottom of the trachea ; but no epiglottis. The inferior glottis corresponds to the reed of a hautboy or clarionet,... | |
| Science - 1824 - 628 pages
...which though imperceptible might have affected its gravity. The thermometers were sometimes placed one at the top, and the other at the bottom of the vessel, in order to ascertain, beyond doubt, the temperatures at the initial points, or the extremes... | |
| Abraham Wivell - 1827 - 98 pages
...done in the life time of the poet, has had recourse to the means of splicing two pieces of canvas, one at the top and the other at the bottom of the picture ; _ — ___^_^_ . , i gentleman, of the highest literary attainments, that he begged of the... | |
| Abraham Wivell - 1827 - 104 pages
...done in the life time of the poet, has had recourse to the means of splicing two pieces of canvas, one at the top and the other at the bottom of the picture ; gentleman, of the highest literary attainments, that he begged of the author of them a copy,... | |
| English fiction - 1830 - 812 pages
...ribands and flowers ; there are generally two bouquets employed ; they are placed on opposite sides, one at the top, and the other at the bottom of the crown. Sometimes a single flower is placed under the brim, but in general it is an ornament composed... | |
| Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1882 - 636 pages
...that he transmuted the hall in the Castle of Durham, for whereas there were two seats of regality, one at the top and the other at the bottom of the hall, now he left only the upper one, and on the site of the lower one made a pantry, &c., with two... | |
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