The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated on the Principles of Modern Philosophy, Volum 1

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J. Johnson, 1796 - 46 pàgines

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Pàgina 483 - ... majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds.
Pàgina 483 - ... did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more.
Pàgina 232 - P mn with that of the great one. Now, since in viewing a very remote object, we can scarcely see a point of it but what is at least as broad as the great mirror, we may consider the rays of each pencil, which flow from every point of the object, to be parallel to each other, and to cover the whole reflecting surface DUVF.
Pàgina 241 - The axis of the prism (that is, the line passing through the middle of the prism from one end of it to the other end parallel to the edge of the refracting angle) was in this and the following experiments perpendicular to the incident rays.
Pàgina 318 - C, standing on the floor, both appear to be electrized; for he, having only the middle quantity of electrical fire, receives a spark upon approaching B, who has an over quantity ; but gives one to A, who has an under quantity. If A and B approach to touch each other, the spark is stronger, because the difference between them is greater. After such touch there is no spark between either of them and C, because the electrical fire in all is reduced to the original equality.
Pàgina 241 - I let the refracted light fall perpendicularly upon a sheet of white paper at the opposite wall of the chamber, and observed the figure and dimensions of the solar image formed on the paper by that light. This image was oblong and not oval, but terminated with two rectilinear and parallel sides, and two semicircular ends. On its sides it was bounded pretty distinctly, but on its ends very confusedly and indistinctly, the light there decaying and vanishing by degrees.
Pàgina 10 - The idea of solidity we receive by our touch ; and it arises from the resistance which we find in body to the entrance of any other body into the place it possesses, till it has left it.
Pàgina 233 - B. in their way they form that extremity of the image at b. In like manner the rays E which come from the top of the object AB and fall parallel upon the great mirror at F, are thence reflected converging to its focus, where they form the lower extremity K of the inverted image...
Pàgina 341 - ... over a large tract of country, the lightning is seen to dart from one part of it to another, and often to illuminate its whole mass. When the cloud has acquired a sufficient extent, the lightning strikes between the cloud and the earth, in two opposite places; the path of the lightning lying through the whole body of the cloud and its branches. The longer this lightning continues, the...
Pàgina 491 - O A vapour, mist, or rain, descends with it, by which the path of it is marked with wet. The following is a description of one which happened a few years since at Leicester, about fifty miles from Boston, in New England : it happened in July, on a hot day, about four o'clock in the afternoon. A few clouds having gathered westward, and coming overhead, a sudden motion of their running together in a point being observed, immediately a spout of wind struck the...

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