The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. LL.D., Late President of the Royal Society, Foreign Associate of the Royal Institute of France, &c. &c. &c, Volume 1Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831 - 547 pages |
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Page 40
... animals , sea - vegetables might not be the pre- servers of the equilibrium of the atmosphere of the ocean . From these experiments he concluded , that the different orders of the marine Cryptogamia were capable of decomposing water ...
... animals , sea - vegetables might not be the pre- servers of the equilibrium of the atmosphere of the ocean . From these experiments he concluded , that the different orders of the marine Cryptogamia were capable of decomposing water ...
Page 71
... animals , however , it is unquestionably given out perceptibly during animal action . When any considerable change takes place in the organic matter of the body , so as to destroy the powers of life , new chemical attractions and repul ...
... animals , however , it is unquestionably given out perceptibly during animal action . When any considerable change takes place in the organic matter of the body , so as to destroy the powers of life , new chemical attractions and repul ...
Page 74
... animal temperature , with a view to future compa- rison . The paralytic man , wholly ignorant of the nature of the process to which he was to submit , but deeply impressed , from the representations of Dr. Beddoes , with the certainty ...
... animal temperature , with a view to future compa- rison . The paralytic man , wholly ignorant of the nature of the process to which he was to submit , but deeply impressed , from the representations of Dr. Beddoes , with the certainty ...
Page 83
... animal king- dom by the shell of the crustaceous insects . " The circumstance that first led him to the inves ... animals in the minutest quantities , or even when applied to the skin , or muscular fibre . " The fallacy of this theory ...
... animal king- dom by the shell of the crustaceous insects . " The circumstance that first led him to the inves ... animals in the minutest quantities , or even when applied to the skin , or muscular fibre . " The fallacy of this theory ...
Page 99
... animals by the same gas , proved that its effects were highly deleterious . " As it destroyed life , apparently by rendering the muscular fibre inirritable , without producing any previous excitement , I was anxious to compare its H 2 ...
... animals by the same gas , proved that its effects were highly deleterious . " As it destroyed life , apparently by rendering the muscular fibre inirritable , without producing any previous excitement , I was anxious to compare its H 2 ...
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