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1.–5. rezultāts no 71.
2. lappuse
... reflected and another refracted . This pose that it was the crystalline humour which cor . writer makes some ingenious attempts to explain responded to the wall which received the images refraction , or to ascertain the law of it . He ...
... reflected and another refracted . This pose that it was the crystalline humour which cor . writer makes some ingenious attempts to explain responded to the wall which received the images refraction , or to ascertain the law of it . He ...
7. lappuse
... reflection from a mirror , since there is more light lost in the latter case than in the former . " With a view therefore to assist the artist , he en- deavoured to ascertain the refractive power of dif- ferent kinds of glass , and also ...
... reflection from a mirror , since there is more light lost in the latter case than in the former . " With a view therefore to assist the artist , he en- deavoured to ascertain the refractive power of dif- ferent kinds of glass , and also ...
8. lappuse
... reflected from a polished mir- ror , which he fixes at the place where the reflected ray meets a perpendicular to the mirror drawn through the object . But this work is so imperfect , and so inaccurately drawn up , that it is not ...
... reflected from a polished mir- ror , which he fixes at the place where the reflected ray meets a perpendicular to the mirror drawn through the object . But this work is so imperfect , and so inaccurately drawn up , that it is not ...
9. lappuse
... reflected from the dense air ; and the most perfect and pleasing deception depending upon the images in the air is ... reflected with the same degree of inclination to one another that they had before their incidence ; but he shows that ...
... reflected from the dense air ; and the most perfect and pleasing deception depending upon the images in the air is ... reflected with the same degree of inclination to one another that they had before their incidence ; but he shows that ...
10. lappuse
... reflected from any observed in order to make his conclusions unques - thing else ; and he found that the distance of ... reflected to R , upon the screen GH , where it was compared with another beam of light that fell upon S , through ...
... reflected from any observed in order to make his conclusions unques - thing else ; and he found that the distance of ... reflected to R , upon the screen GH , where it was compared with another beam of light that fell upon S , through ...
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acid action ammonia angle angle of incidence animal appear arteries axis blood body bones called carbonic acid cause cavity centre Cicero circulation colour consists copal copper cylinder degree diameter distance earth ecliptic edges effect employed equal experiments faculty feet figure fixed fluid furnace give glass heat hole hydrogen inches iron kind less light manner matter means mercury metal metonymy mixed mixture mode motion mucilage muscles nature nitric acid object observed orator organ orichalcum oxalic acid oxide oxygen painting paper parallel pass perpendicular phosphorus physiognomy piece placed plane plate porcelain portion potash pressing rollers principle printing prism produced proper proportion prussic acid quantity quicksilver Quintilian rays reflected refraction round side sometimes specific gravity substance supposed surface thing tion tube vapour varnish vessels weight wheel whole wire
Populāri fragmenti
46. lappuse - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
136. lappuse - The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to market all the grass and corn of the country, produces itself not a single pile of either.
282. lappuse - For sublime objects are vast in their dimensions, beautiful ones comparatively small: beauty should be smooth and polished; the great, rugged and negligent: beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly; the great in many cases loves the right line; and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation: beauty should not be obscure; the great ought to be dark and gloomy: beauty should be light and delicate; and great ought to be solid, and even massive.
135. lappuse - The substitution of paper in the room of gold and silver money, replaces a very expensive instrument of commerce with one much less costly, and sometimes equally convenient. Circulation comes to be carried on by a new wheel, which it costs less both to erect and to maintain than the old one.
53. lappuse - Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements, from that infusion of Hebraisms, which are derived to it out of the poetical passages in, holy writ.
195. lappuse - ... is so essential to the subsistence of all human creatures, it is not probable that it could be trusted to the fallacious deductions of our reason, which is slow in its operations, appears not, in any degree, •during the first years of infancy, and, at best, is in every age and period of human life extremely liable to error and mistake.
195. lappuse - I shall add, for a further confirmation of the foregoing theory, that, as this operation of the mind, by which we infer like effects from like causes, and vice versa, is so essential to the subsistence of all human creatures, it is not probable that it could be trusted to the fallacious deductions of our reason, which is slow in its operations, appears not in any degree during the first years of infancy, and at best is, in every age and period of human life...
135. lappuse - ... purchase such goods as are likely to be consumed by idle people who produce nothing, such as foreign wines, foreign silks, &c. ; or, secondly, they may purchase an additional stock of materials, tools, and provisions, in order to maintain and employ an additional number of industrious people, who re-produce, with a profit, the value of their annual consumption.
215. lappuse - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has...