The Life of Sir Humphry Davy: Late President of the Royal Society Foreign Associate of the Royal Institute of FranceHenry Colburnan and Richard Bentley, 1831 - 547 pages |
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... Is assisted in experiments on sea - weed by M. Berard . — Crosses the Alps . - Arrives at Genoa . - Institutes experiments on the Torpedo . - Visits Florence , and accom- plishes the combustion of the diamond , by the great CONTENTS . xiii.
... Is assisted in experiments on sea - weed by M. Berard . — Crosses the Alps . - Arrives at Genoa . - Institutes experiments on the Torpedo . - Visits Florence , and accom- plishes the combustion of the diamond , by the great CONTENTS . xiii.
Page xiv
... combustion of the diamond , by the great lens in the cabinet of Natural History.- Experiments on Iodine . - He examines the colours used by the Ancients . - Visits all the cele- brated Philosophers of Italy and Switzerland , with whom ...
... combustion of the diamond , by the great lens in the cabinet of Natural History.- Experiments on Iodine . - He examines the colours used by the Ancients . - Visits all the cele- brated Philosophers of Italy and Switzerland , with whom ...
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... examine the French theory of combustion ; the defects of which he considers to arise from the assumption of the imaginary fluid caloric , and the total neglect of light . He conceives that the light SIR HUMPHRY DAVY . 47.
... examine the French theory of combustion ; the defects of which he considers to arise from the assumption of the imaginary fluid caloric , and the total neglect of light . He conceives that the light SIR HUMPHRY DAVY . 47.
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... combustion previously existed in the oxygen gas , which he therefore proposes for the future to call PHOS - OXYGEN . In following up this question , he would seem to consider Light as the Anima Mundi , diffusing through the universe not ...
... combustion previously existed in the oxygen gas , which he therefore proposes for the future to call PHOS - OXYGEN . In following up this question , he would seem to consider Light as the Anima Mundi , diffusing through the universe not ...
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... combustion , that is , the production of Light and Heat by the mixture . of two incombustible bodies . " It may be presumed , that this phenomenon arose from the develope- ment and decomposition of a portion of Euchlorine , a compound ...
... combustion , that is , the production of Light and Heat by the mixture . of two incombustible bodies . " It may be presumed , that this phenomenon arose from the develope- ment and decomposition of a portion of Euchlorine , a compound ...
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