A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Comprehending All the Branches of Useful Knowledge, with Accurate Descriptions as Well of the Various Machines, Instruments, Tools, Figures, and Schemes Necessary for Illustrating Them, as of the Classes, Kinds, Preparations, and Uses of Natural Productions, Whether Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Fossils, Or Fluids; Together with the Kingdoms, Provinces, Cities, Towns, and Other Remarkable Places Throughout the World, Band 4W. Owen, 1764 - 3506 Seiten |
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... MOTION , COMMUNICATION of motion , and PERCUSSION . REFLECTION of the rays of light , in ca- toptrics , is their return , after approach- ing fo near the furfaces of bodies , as to be thereby repelled , or driven backwards . Thus the ...
... MOTION , COMMUNICATION of motion , and PERCUSSION . REFLECTION of the rays of light , in ca- toptrics , is their return , after approach- ing fo near the furfaces of bodies , as to be thereby repelled , or driven backwards . Thus the ...
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... motion of the particles of it may be quicker than that of the rays ; and there- fore , when a ray , at the inftant it im- pinges upon any furface , is in that part of a vibration of this elastic fubftance which confpires with its motion ...
... motion of the particles of it may be quicker than that of the rays ; and there- fore , when a ray , at the inftant it im- pinges upon any furface , is in that part of a vibration of this elastic fubftance which confpires with its motion ...
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... motion of light lefs than air , refifts that of the ball more ; or , to speak more just- ly ,, because water , by its greater attrac- tion , accelerates the motion of the rays of light more than air does . In order to illuftrate the ...
... motion of light lefs than air , refifts that of the ball more ; or , to speak more just- ly ,, because water , by its greater attrac- tion , accelerates the motion of the rays of light more than air does . In order to illuftrate the ...
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... motion of reptiles . Thus , particularly in the earth - worm , Dr. Wil- lis tells us , the whole body is only a chain of annular mufcles ; or , as Mr. Derham fays , it is only one continued fpiral muscle , the orbicular fibres where- of ...
... motion of reptiles . Thus , particularly in the earth - worm , Dr. Wil- lis tells us , the whole body is only a chain of annular mufcles ; or , as Mr. Derham fays , it is only one continued fpiral muscle , the orbicular fibres where- of ...
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... motion , without permitting , for an inftant , any vacuity to remain behind it ; and those fluids in which , they being not fuffici- ently compreffed , the fpace left behind the moving body remains for fome time empty . Thefe ...
... motion , without permitting , for an inftant , any vacuity to remain behind it ; and those fluids in which , they being not fuffici- ently compreffed , the fpace left behind the moving body remains for fome time empty . Thefe ...
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