The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 59McClure, Phillips and Company, 1901 |
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... atmosphere was so thoroughly charged by humidity that a clear sky was rarely observed . On the evening of March 12 , 1898 , we saw the first distinctive aurora . A faint arc was seen the night previous , but the light was so feeble that ...
... atmosphere was so thoroughly charged by humidity that a clear sky was rarely observed . On the evening of March 12 , 1898 , we saw the first distinctive aurora . A faint arc was seen the night previous , but the light was so feeble that ...
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... atmosphere of mysterious excitement . A wave of light rolled slowly from one side to the other . This wave soon took on the texture of torn lacework and was drawn to and fro , while the arc , which was less brilliant , remained as it ...
... atmosphere of mysterious excitement . A wave of light rolled slowly from one side to the other . This wave soon took on the texture of torn lacework and was drawn to and fro , while the arc , which was less brilliant , remained as it ...
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... some con- nection with the storms , for it was invariably either preceded or suc- ceeded by violent atmospheric agitation . We did not hear any sounds , nor could we at any time perceive an odor , 32 POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY .
... some con- nection with the storms , for it was invariably either preceded or suc- ceeded by violent atmospheric agitation . We did not hear any sounds , nor could we at any time perceive an odor , 32 POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY .
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... atmosphere , particularly by an ex- change of celestial and terrestrial electricity . The question is , however , one of the problems of the future . Though many exploring expeditions have penetrated the icy polar solitudes , very few ...
... atmosphere , particularly by an ex- change of celestial and terrestrial electricity . The question is , however , one of the problems of the future . Though many exploring expeditions have penetrated the icy polar solitudes , very few ...
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... atmosphere , and the question may now grain . According to this , the superi- be considered as settled . Not only has ority of the liquors of ' ye olden time ' Dewar condensed hydrogen directly was due not so much to the fact that from ...
... atmosphere , and the question may now grain . According to this , the superi- be considered as settled . Not only has ority of the liquors of ' ye olden time ' Dewar condensed hydrogen directly was due not so much to the fact that from ...
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Page 145 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Page 408 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed from the earth : and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 308 - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science In different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Page 364 - 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 any thing 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 135 - Who dreads to the dust returning? Who shrinks from the sable shore, Where the high and haughty yearning Of the soul can sting no more? No, stand to your glasses, steady! The world is a world of lies: A cup to the dead already — And hurrah for the next that dies!
Page 364 - It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Page 467 - Considering all these facts, I feel justified in maintaining that human tuberculosis differs from bovine and cannot be transmitted to cattle. It seems to me very desirable, however, that these experiments should be repeated elsewhere, in order that all doubts as to the correctness of my assertion may be removed.
Page 138 - best that the nation could bring." North and South, the nation was impoverished by the loss. The gaps they left are filled, to all appearance. There are relatively few of us left today in whose hearts the scars of- forty years ago are still unhealing. But a new generation has grown up of men and women born since the war. They have taken the nation's problems into their hands, but theirs are hands not so strong or so clean as though the men that are stood shoulder to shoulder with the men that might...
Page 486 - Secondly, on the supposition that the earth performs an annual revolution around the sun, it is embraced along with the planets, in Kepler's law, that the squares of the times are as the cubes of the distances ; otherwise, it forms an exception, and the only known exception, to this law.
Page 566 - That disease, over which science has since achieved a succession of glorious and beneficent victories, was then the most terrible of all the ministers of death. The havoc of the plague had been far more rapid : but the plague had visited our shores only once or twice within living memory ; and the...