A Sketch Romance of Motion, Or, A Mode of Motion of the Planetary Bodies in Space. Also a Hypothetical Analysis and Synthesis of Nitrogen1871 |
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A Sketch Romance of Motion, Or, A Mode of Motion of the Planetary Bodies in ... Alec Lee Volledige weergave - 1871 |
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actual distances ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS areas in equal ATMOSPHERIC DECOMPOSITION Atomic of Gases atomic weight ball bination Specific Gravity carbonic anhydride Carbonic Oxide contains 4 vol cyanogen DECOMPOSITION AND RECOMPOSITION describe equal areas distance of equal earth elliptic orbit equal magnetisation equal velocities ether in space force of gravitation force of projection force of propulsion force varying Formula Atomic Vol Formula of Analysis Formula of Atomic free oxygen Gases Weight Atomic H₁ heavenly bodies HYPOTHETICAL ANALYSIS HYPOTHETICAL DECOMPOSITION light and heat magne-crystallic magnetic action magnetic field material substance medium in space Name of Substance Nitrogen 4 vol Olefiant Gas perpendicular planet varies planetary bodies positions of equilibrium process of respiration ratio resisting medium revolve ROMANCE OF MOTION round the sun SKETCH ROMANCE SOLAR SYSTEM square roots subduplicate Substance Formula Atomic supposed SYNTHESIS OF NITROGEN tan² tangent vapour of water varies inversely Weight Atomic Vol
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Pagina 2 - And time, and place, are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery...
Pagina 2 - Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Pagina 2 - Cyrene's torrid soil, Levied to side with warring winds, and poise Their lighter wings. To whom these most adhere He rules a moment : Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more imbroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Pagina 2 - He rules a moment: Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray, By which he reigns; next him high arbiter Chance governs all. Into this wild abyss, The womb of nature, and perhaps her grave, Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire, But all these in their pregnant causes mixed Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless the almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to create more worlds...
Pagina 7 - ... supposed to persevere in their state of rest or of motion, in a straight line, unless compelled to change that state...
Pagina 13 - ... which a body attracted toward a given point, may be made to move in a given curve. He particularly shews by an interesting application of mathematical principles, that a body moving in an ellipse and describing equal areas in equal times, about one of the foci, must be attracted toward that focus, by a force varying inversely as the square of its distance from ' the focus : that the squares of the periodic times of bodies, moving in different ellipses about a common centre of force in the common...