American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 10Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 |
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... rays , those rays that are absorbed by the dark colour , heat the interior air , which causes the liquor to descend at first with rapidity in the cor- responding branch . But as a part of the heat which had introduced itself by means of ...
... rays , those rays that are absorbed by the dark colour , heat the interior air , which causes the liquor to descend at first with rapidity in the cor- responding branch . But as a part of the heat which had introduced itself by means of ...
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... rays dispersed throughout the iris : the orange is differently disposed , at a tri- fling distance from the pupil , is in flakes , and round ; but the blue so far overpow ers it , that the eye assumes the appear- ance of being wholly of ...
... rays dispersed throughout the iris : the orange is differently disposed , at a tri- fling distance from the pupil , is in flakes , and round ; but the blue so far overpow ers it , that the eye assumes the appear- ance of being wholly of ...
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... rays of light , according to their figure and density : and the me- chanical elasticity of the epiglottis , and the chemical affinities exercised in respi- ration , are further examples to the same effect . Yet the energy and power of ...
... rays of light , according to their figure and density : and the me- chanical elasticity of the epiglottis , and the chemical affinities exercised in respi- ration , are further examples to the same effect . Yet the energy and power of ...
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... rays of light are affected , in passing through the various parts of the eye , is explained un- der the article OPTICS . See also VISION . We have only to add a few remarks on the physiology of the eye . The quantity of light that can ...
... rays of light are affected , in passing through the various parts of the eye , is explained un- der the article OPTICS . See also VISION . We have only to add a few remarks on the physiology of the eye . The quantity of light that can ...
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... rays . The painful effect produced on the reti- na by a strong light is obviated by the contracted state of the pupil ; while the opposite condition of that opening , in darkness , is designed to admit a suffici- ent quantity of rays ...
... rays . The painful effect produced on the reti- na by a strong light is obviated by the contracted state of the pupil ; while the opposite condition of that opening , in darkness , is designed to admit a suffici- ent quantity of rays ...
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