Nature, Volume 40Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1889 |
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Page 84 - Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page 136 - Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, read at the Annual Visitation of the Royal Observatory, 1860, June 2; and Address of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors, 1860, May 12.
Page 110 - ... that for the ordinary necessities of lighthouse illumination, mineral oil is the most suitable and economical illuminant, and that for salient headlands, important landfalls, and places where a very powerful light is required, electricity offers the greatest advantages.
Page 192 - Without entering into details, I will give the conclusions I then arrived at in the very words I used : — 1. The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an evident periodicity of properties. 2. Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg, platinum, iridium, osmium) or which increase regularly (eg, potassium, rubidium, cesium).
Page 131 - Published under the direction of the general council of medical education and registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the medical act (1858).
Page 33 - GIPHANTIA ; or, a view of what has passed, what is now passing, and during the present century, what will pass, in the world.
Page 188 - FRS, president, in the chair. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of...
Page 193 - When, in 1871, I described to the Russian Chemical Society the properties, clearly defined by the periodic law, which such elements ought to possess, I never hoped that I should live to mention their discovery to the Chemical Society of Great Britain as a confirmation of the exactitude and the generality of the periodic law.
Page 218 - Fields," &c. Crown 8vo., cloth, 3s. 6d. " His descriptions are so fresh that they will give genuine pleasure to everyone who reads them. The book will be especially interesting to young readers.
Page xvii - SMITH.— GRAPHICS, or the Art of Calculation by Drawing Lines, applied especially to Mechanical Engineering. By ROBERT H. SMITH, Professor of Engineering, Mason College, Birmingham. Part I. With separate Atlas of 29 Plates containing 97 Diagrams. 8vo. , 15$.