Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1863 |
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... than fifteen pounds of powder , throw a ninety - pound shot through twelve centimetres of iron plating at forty metres . But the French artillerists have accomplished far more than this . As long 60 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY .
... than fifteen pounds of powder , throw a ninety - pound shot through twelve centimetres of iron plating at forty metres . But the French artillerists have accomplished far more than this . As long 60 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY .
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... metres ; and , although this gun is not yet in common use in the French service , several specimens of it have been manufactured , and the experiments have been carried on in the present year with increasing success . " The writer also ...
... metres ; and , although this gun is not yet in common use in the French service , several specimens of it have been manufactured , and the experiments have been carried on in the present year with increasing success . " The writer also ...
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... metres in length , glass being , as our readers know , a non - conductor . Whatever explanation may hereafter be given of M. Luca's discovery , one fact seems even now indisputable , namely , that the human body may directly influence ...
... metres in length , glass being , as our readers know , a non - conductor . Whatever explanation may hereafter be given of M. Luca's discovery , one fact seems even now indisputable , namely , that the human body may directly influence ...
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... metres in a second , he estimates it as 298,000,000 . If this be correct , the sun's parallax is 8.86 " , instead of 8.57 " . Thus the mean distance of the sun from our earth is dimin- ished by about 3 . DISPERSION OF LIGHT . M. Radan ...
... metres in a second , he estimates it as 298,000,000 . If this be correct , the sun's parallax is 8.86 " , instead of 8.57 " . Thus the mean distance of the sun from our earth is dimin- ished by about 3 . DISPERSION OF LIGHT . M. Radan ...
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... metres in depth , covered with about fifty metres of various strata of tertiary soil , and itself resting on nearly fifty metres of marl or clay , which is in contact with the green - sands from which the celebrated well of Grenelle ...
... metres in depth , covered with about fifty metres of various strata of tertiary soil , and itself resting on nearly fifty metres of marl or clay , which is in contact with the green - sands from which the celebrated well of Grenelle ...
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Seite 140 - In this ascension, six pigeons were taken up. One was thrown out at the height of three miles ; it extended its wings and dropped...
Seite 171 - In order to explain,' he says, ' the occurrence of the dark lines in the solar spectrum, we must assume that the solar atmosphere encloses a luminous nucleus, producing a continuous spectrum, the brightness of which exceeds a certain limit. The most probable supposition which can be made respecting the sun's constitution is, that it consists of a solid or liquid nucleus, heated to a temperature of the brightest whiteness, surrounded by an atmosphere of somewhat lower temperature. This supposition...