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Though these three classes include the motions of solid, liquid, and aerial bodies
; there is nevertheless a fourth division of motions; I mean those of the supposed
ethereal fluids of magnetism, electricity, heat, and light; whose properties are not
...
Though these three classes include the motions of solid, liquid, and aerial bodies
; there is nevertheless a fourth division of motions; I mean those of the supposed
ethereal fluids of magnetism, electricity, heat, and light; whose properties are not
...
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... it could therefore make less resistance to the mechanical impulse of light;
which, according to the observations related by Mr. Melvil in the - C 3 Edinburgh
Edinburgh Literary Essays, only communicates heat, and should therefore only.
Secr.
... it could therefore make less resistance to the mechanical impulse of light;
which, according to the observations related by Mr. Melvil in the - C 3 Edinburgh
Edinburgh Literary Essays, only communicates heat, and should therefore only.
Secr.
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Edinburgh Literary Essays, only communicates heat, and should therefore only
communicate momentum, where it is obstructed, refle&ted, or refracted.—From
whence also may be colle&ted the final cause of this degree of transparency of
the ...
Edinburgh Literary Essays, only communicates heat, and should therefore only
communicate momentum, where it is obstructed, refle&ted, or refracted.—From
whence also may be colle&ted the final cause of this degree of transparency of
the ...
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Mr. Dean, a mason, of Austry, in Leicestershire, had the spine of the third vertebra
of the back enlarg— ed; in some weeks his lower extremities became feeble, and
at length quite paralytic: neither the pain of blisters, the heat of fomentations, ...
Mr. Dean, a mason, of Austry, in Leicestershire, had the spine of the third vertebra
of the back enlarg— ed; in some weeks his lower extremities became feeble, and
at length quite paralytic: neither the pain of blisters, the heat of fomentations, ...
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... and by the unceasing variations of the heat, moisture, and pressure of the
atmosphere; and these sensual motions, precisely as the muscular one above
mentioned, obey their correspondent irritations without our attention or
consciousness.
... and by the unceasing variations of the heat, moisture, and pressure of the
atmosphere; and these sensual motions, precisely as the muscular one above
mentioned, obey their correspondent irritations without our attention or
consciousness.
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| Title | Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life ... Volume 1 of Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life, Erasmus Darwin |
| Author | Erasmus Darwin |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1801 |
| Length | 516 pages |
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