Nature, Volume 55Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1897 |
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Page 66 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 148 - ... with coal mining. The underground photographs are an attractive feature of the work, being very lifelike and necessarily true representations of the scenes they depict.
Page xiii - BEVAN.— CELLULOSE: an Outline of the Chemistry of the Structural Elements of Plants. With Reference to their Natural History and Industrial Uses.
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Page 56 - It measures no less than two yards in length from the tip of its snout to the end of its tail. The photographs of these two drawings, which were sent to the Academy, were taken by M. Charles...
Page 251 - So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And- these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
Page 161 - WE have been glancing through a new list of the staffs of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and of botanical departments and establishments at home, and in India and the Colonies, in correspondence with Kew.
Page 141 - BA, late of Trinity College, with the object of promoting the study of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics among students of Natural Science, both men and women. The Studentship is usually offered once in every three years. Value, about £90 a year for two years. 1912 Archie Edward Heath, BA, Trinity. IMS Xat avardtJ. ATHENS, BRITISH SCHOOL AT The Managing Committee of the British...
Page 91 - Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy). We have glanced at the reasons for the place of grammar as leading the humane studies, as well as for the place of arithmetic as leading the nature studies. Following arithmetic, as the second study in importance among the branches that correlate man to nature, is geography. It is interesting to note that the old quadrivium of the Middle Ages included geography, under the title of geometry, as the branch following arithmetic in the enumeration;...
Page 38 - July 14, 1897, provided that an essay deemed by the committee of award to be worthy of the prize shall have been offered. Essays intended for competition may be upon any subject in medicine, but...