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The London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics, Vol. 5 of 22

Author : Thomas Curtis
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0483787590

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The London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics, Vol. 5 of 22 by Thomas Curtis Pdf

Excerpt from The London Encyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics, Vol. 5 of 22: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge; Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams Cafer, in ornithology, a species of merops, with gray plumage and a yellow spot near the anus, tail long. Native of Ethiopia. Also, a species of picus, brown above, beneath light green, dotted with black, the under part of the wings and tail vermilion colored. Found at the Cape of Good Hope. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis].

Author : Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600046967

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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]. by Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) Pdf

The Wayward Comet

Author : Martin Beech
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781627340649

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Comets have not only blazed across the celestial vault throughout human history, they have embellished the night sky since the Earth itself formed some 4.5 billion years ago. Comets were among the first-born solid bodies in the solar system, and their frozen nuclei tell of the primordial chemistry and chaos that ultimately resulted in the formation of the planets, the evolution of life and us. For all this, however, comets have long been celestial oddities: they baffled our distant ancestors, and human society continues to marvel and speculate wildly at their appearance even to the present day. Cutting against the perceived constancy of the stars, comets seemingly present themselves at random times and they are often interpreted as harbingers of terrestrial change - both good and ill. How then are we to tame the comet: where do they form, how do they move, and can their appearances be predicted? Such questions have preoccupied astronomers for centuries but comets have only gradually allowed the secrets of their wayward flight to be revealed. In this book I explore the historical struggle to understand not only the place of comets within a societal context, but also the scientific quest to make their paths amenable to mathematical certitude. The latter narrative is the more technical in content, but it took tactile form with the invention, in 1732, of the cometarium, a mechanical device to demonstrate the first two of Kepler's planetary laws. And, this development was later paralleled, in the mid to late 19th century, by the development of various mechanical devices (analog computers) to help obtain solutions to Kepler's Problem - the problem which asks, exactly where in its orbit is a given comet at some specific set time. The telling of the wayward comets story covers the past two millennia of human history, and it takes us from the phenomenological musings of Aristotle, through the exactitude of Newton's gravitational theory and calculus, to the truly incredible study of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, in the modern era.

Discovering Water

Author : David Philip Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351943758

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The 'water controversy' concerns one of the central discoveries of modern science, that water is not an element but rather a compound. The allocation of priority in this discovery was contentious in the 1780s and has occupied a number of 20th century historians. The matter is tied up with the larger issues of the so-called chemical revolution of the late eighteenth century. A case can be made for James Watt or Henry Cavendish or Antoine Lavoisier as having priority in the discovery depending upon precisely what the discovery is taken to consist of, however, neither the protagonists themselves in the 1780s nor modern historians qualify as those most fervently interested in the affair. In fact, the controversy attracted most attention in early Victorian Britain some fifty to seventy years after the actual work of Watt, Cavendish and Lavoisier. The central historical question to which the book addresses itself is why the priority claims of long dead natural philosophers so preoccupied a wide range of people in the later period. The answer to the question lies in understanding the enormous symbolic importance of James Watt and Henry Cavendish in nineteenth-century science and society. More than credit for a particular discovery was at stake here. When we examine the various agenda of the participants in the Victorian phase of the water controversy we find it driven by filial loyalty and nationalism but also, most importantly, by ideological struggles about the nature of science and its relation to technological invention and innovation in British society. At a more general, theoretical, level, this study also provides important insights into conceptions of the nature of discovery as they are debated by modern historians, philosophers and sociologists of science.

The London Encyclopaedia

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : MINN:31951002122086W

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Catalogue of the First (third and Concluding) Portion of the Very Extensive and Valuable Stock of Mr. Henry George Bohn ... which Will be Sold ... by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... 10th of February, 1868, Etc

Author : Henry George Bohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000618758

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Catalogue of the First (third and Concluding) Portion of the Very Extensive and Valuable Stock of Mr. Henry George Bohn ... which Will be Sold ... by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... 10th of February, 1868, Etc by Henry George Bohn Pdf