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... studies which have a most exalting tendency . Thought has made the subtile element of the thunderstorm man's most obedient messenger . Thought has solicited the sunbeam to betray its secrets ; and an invisible agent , controlled by ...
... studies which have a most exalting tendency . Thought has made the subtile element of the thunderstorm man's most obedient messenger . Thought has solicited the sunbeam to betray its secrets ; and an invisible agent , controlled by ...
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... studies of a naturalist . He remained out of Parliament , went little into any society but that of learned men , while his relaxation was confined to exercise and to angling , of which he was so fond , that he would devote days and even ...
... studies of a naturalist . He remained out of Parliament , went little into any society but that of learned men , while his relaxation was confined to exercise and to angling , of which he was so fond , that he would devote days and even ...
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... studies of the principles of Hydraulics , in the course of his invention of the press , enabled him to introduce many valuable improvements in pumping machinery . By varying the form of the piston and cylinder , he was enabled to obtain ...
... studies of the principles of Hydraulics , in the course of his invention of the press , enabled him to introduce many valuable improvements in pumping machinery . By varying the form of the piston and cylinder , he was enabled to obtain ...
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... studies , the effects of which are so strikingly manifested in the philosophical character of his botanical investigations . At an early age he was sent to the grammar - school of his native town , and in 1787 entered at Marischal ...
... studies , the effects of which are so strikingly manifested in the philosophical character of his botanical investigations . At an early age he was sent to the grammar - school of his native town , and in 1787 entered at Marischal ...
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... studies at University College , Oxford , where he was entered at fourteen years of age , and during the vacations was placed under the private tuition of Dr. Langhorne , the editor of ' Plutarch's Lives . ' * Dr. Cartwright was the ...
... studies at University College , Oxford , where he was entered at fourteen years of age , and during the vacations was placed under the private tuition of Dr. Langhorne , the editor of ' Plutarch's Lives . ' * Dr. Cartwright was the ...
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Memoirs of the distinguished men of science of Great Britain living in ... William Walker Affichage du livre entier - 1864 |
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afterwards apparatus appointed astronomical became Bentham Born Boulton Boulton and Watt Bramah bridge Brunel canal Cavendish Charlotte Dundas chemical chemistry Civil Engineers commenced considerable construction continued contrivances Crompton Dalton Davy death died discovery distinguished Dollond early Edinburgh elected Ellesmere Canal eminent employed Encyclopædia Britannica engaged England engraving erected established experiments father feet Francis Baily Gilbert Glasgow heat Henry Henry Maudslay Herschel honour Huddart improvements Institution instruments invention inventor iron James Watt Jenner Jessop John John Rennie knowledge labour lectures living London Lord machine machinery manufacture Maskelyne mathematical Maudslay mechanical memoir ments nature navigation numerous obtained occupied original paper patent period Peter Dollond Philosophical plates Playfair practical published Rennie residence Royal Society Samuel Samuel Bentham Samuel Crompton scientific Sir Joseph Banks Soho steam steam-engine studies succeeded Symington Telford Tennant Thomas Young tion took Transactions Trevithick various Watt Watt's William Wollaston Young
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Page 139 - Watt, who directing the force of an original genius early exercised in philosophic research to the improvement of the steam-engine, enlarged the resources of his country, increased the power of man, and rose to an eminent place among the most illustrious followers of science, and the real benefactors of the world.
Page 70 - Having never seen the disease but in its casual way before, that is when communicated from the cow to the hand of the milker, I was astonished at the close resemblance of the pustules, in some of their stages, to the variolous pustules.
Page 69 - ... so that, if a cuckoo should be ready with an egg much sooner than the time pointed out, not a single nestling, even one of the earliest, would be fit to provide for itself before its parent would be instinctively directed to seek a new residence, and be thus compelled to abandon its young one; for old cuckoos take their final leave of this country the first week in July.