The Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the End of the Year 1700: Containing pt. 1, The mathematical papers; pt. 2, The physiological papers; pt. 3, the anatomical papers; pt. 4, The philological and miscellaneous papers, by J. Eames and J. MartynM. Mathews, 1734 |
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الصفحة 3 - ... as the Poets describe the Old Chaos ; for such a Choc impelling the solid Parts would occasion the Waters, and all fluid Substances that were unconfined, as the Sea is, with one Impetus to run violently towards that Part of the Globe were [sic] the Blow was received ; and that with Force sufficient to rake with it the whole Bottom of the Ocean, and to carry it upon the Land ; heaping up into Mountains those earthy Parts it had born away with it, in those Places where the opposite Waves balance...
الصفحة 149 - Sometimes they disappear of a sudden, and appear again in an instant in some other place. Commonly they keep hovering about six feet from the ground.
الصفحة 185 - Devon, the loads always hold their course from eastward to westward ; though in other parts of England they frequently run from north to south. The miners report, that the sides of the load never bear in a perpendicular, but constantly underlay, either to the north or to the south.
الصفحة 334 - But if in the same Field, you plant the blue Corn in one Row of Hills (as we term them) and the white, or yellow, in the next Row, they will mix and interchange their Colours; that is, some of the ears of Corn in the blue Corn Rows, shall be white, or yellow; and some again, in the white or yellow Rows, shall be of a blue Colour.
الصفحة 105 - ... some had their points reaching up to the zenith, or near it, where they formed a sort of canopy, or thin cloud, sometimes red, sometimes brownish, sometimes blazing as if on fire, and sometimes emitting streams all round it.
الصفحة 280 - ... which the divisions were cut, lie in the same plane with the needle, and at such a distance from each other that the needle might play freely between them. A few of the degrees at the north end were divided into six equal parts, each division being 10'. It was easy, by the help of a convex glass, to determine the pointing of the needle to less than a quarter of these divisions, or to about 2
الصفحة 237 - The melted tin must also have a certain degree of heat ; for, if it is not hot enough, it will not stick to the iron ; and, if it is too hot, it will cover it with too thin a coat, and the plates will have several colors, as red, blue, and purple, and upon the whole have a cast of yellow.
الصفحة 172 - L'Aigle; and a few days after, the Dutch ship, with her cargo of brandy and oil, arose on the shore near Tangier, which is at least four leagues to the westward of the place where she sunk, and directly against the strength of the current, which has persuaded many men that there is a recurrency in the deep water in the middle of the Gut that sets outward to the grand ocean, which this accident very much demonstrates...
الصفحة 304 - ... outside consists of eight pieces of wood of three inches thick, in form of a quadrangular frame, about twelve inches square at the bottom on the inside, and twenty-two on the upper part ; which last is likewise the perpendicular height of it.
الصفحة 296 - Linnaeus, is different from the varnish trees of India, yet it resembles them in its poisonous qualities. The Honourable Paul Dudley informs us that it poisons two ways, " either by the touching or handling of it, and that its scent when cut down in the woods, or on the fire, has poisoned persons to a very great degree. One of my neighbours was blind for above a week together with only handling it, and a gentleman in the country, when sitting by his fireside in the winter, was swelled for several...