The several Phaenomena of the Torricellian Experiment exhibited and explained.
All the Phaenomena of Pulleys, both single and in all their possible Combinations explain'd.
The Phaenomena of Glass Bubbles and Images accounted for.
This also hints the other remarkable Phaenomena of Pendulums; viz.
The Phaenomena of Terrella, or Spherical Loadstones.
We use those phaenomena to correct and to expand our law.
If we seem to ourselves to have discovered a law, we do not throw it away the moment we find phaenomena which will not be explained by it.
First; students try to explain too often all the facts which they meet by the very few laws which they know; and especially moral phaenomena by physical, or at least economic laws.
Fortunately, I lately found two very good accounts of the phaenomena that attended the explosion, which formed the new mountain, published a few months after the event.
Accordingly, the pretension of philosophers to explain physical phaenomena by physical causes, or to predict their occurrence, was, up to a very late period of Polytheism, regarded as a sacrilegious insult to the gods.
All social phaenomena are produced by the totality of human emotions and beliefs, of which the emotions are mainly predetermined, while the beliefs are mainly post-determined.
But the phaenomena of Chemistry and Biology depend on them often for their very existence.
The poet, on the other hand, avoiding dry and abstract definitions, rather combines than analyzes, and dwells more on the sensible phaenomena of nature, than her mysterious and scientific workings.
Italy was also filled with many local deities, in consequence of those wonderful natural phaenomena which it so abundantly exhibited, and which its early inhabitants ascribed to invisible powers.
There is, we think, only one solution of the phaenomena which we find in the history and in the drama of that age.
But not to go so far as prisoners of war and the dead to find instances of this disinterested esteem for riches, let us observe with a little attention those phaenomena that occur to us in common life and conversation.
To consider these phaenomena of the porter and letter in a certain light, they are contradictions to common experience, and may be regarded as objections to those maxims, which we form concerning the connexions of causes and effects.
Most fortunately all this reasoning is found to be exactly conformable to experience, and the phaenomena of the passions.
Let us endeavour to explain these phaenomena by the foregoing system.
These two phaenomena of the effects of relation and acquaintance will give mutual light to each other, and may be both explained from the same principle.
When any phaenomena are constantly and invariably conjoined together, they acquire such a connexion in the imagination, that it passes from one to the other, without any doubt or hesitation.
These twophaenomena appear contradictory, and require some attention to be reconciled.
These two phaenomena are remarkable in themselves, but much more so when compared.
There are no phaenomena that point out any such kind affection to men, independent of their merit, and every other circumstance.
Some of the most curious phaenomena of the human mind are derived from this property of the passions.
And yet he did his best to ascertain the causes of the phaenomena of the universe.
But now he began to form a theory as to the cause of the phaenomena of the universe.
He affirmed that matter was indestructible; that nature produced "all phaenomena as the fruit of her own womb.
Of the disposition and application of which wheels, and the various phaenomena resulting, I could, if I had time, fill you a sheet.
The Distance, Velocity, Size, Solidity, and other Properties of those Bodies considered; and the wonderful Phaenomena of their Tails and Atmospheres accounted for.
But this knowledge is only to be obtained by the application of the methods of investigation adopted in physical researches to the investigation of the phaenomena of society.
Henceforward a horse is a sort of indication or label, telling us where we shall find a peculiar series of phaenomena called the circulation of the blood.
To begin with, let every child be instructed in those general views of the phaenomena of Nature for which we have no exact English name.
Whatever forms the Living Being may take on, whether simple or complex, production, growth, reproduction, are the phaenomena which distinguish it from that which does not live.
After this manner, and in every age and country of the world, down to the present day, have the allegories invented by priests, and cunningly drawn from the astronomical phaenomena of nature, passed for religion amongst the unthinking million.
None of the phaenomena of Nature prove, but all disclaim a first cause.
In fact, the nature of the phaenomena seems to offer almost insurmountable impediments to any extensive and prolific application of such a procedure in biology.
A description of the selenographia, an apparatus for exhibiting the phaenomena of the moon; together with an account of some of the purposes to which it may be applied.
The Use of the Copernican Spheres, teaching to solve the Phaenomena by them, as easily as by the Ptolomaick Spheres; by Joseph Moxon, &c.
Now, by means of astronomical History, we ascertain, cloudily, that some such phaenomena have occurred.
The clearness with which even material phaenomena are presented to the understanding, depends very little, I have long since learned to perceive, upon a merely natural, and almost altogether upon a moral, arrangement.
All phaenomena are referable to one, or to the other, or to both combined.
Fancying ourselves thus placed, we shall no longer find difficulty in accounting for the phaenomena presented--which are perspective altogether.
If the phaenomena which lie before him will not suit his purpose, all history must be ransacked.
The fact is, that Mr. Southey's proposition is opposed to all history, and to thephaenomena which surround us on every side.
Mr. Southey's whole system of finance is grounded on the phaenomena of evaporation and rain.
The optical phaenomena are but a geometry, the lines of which are drawn by light, and the materiality of this light itself has already become matter of doubt.
Thence it comes, that in nature itself the more the principle of law breaks forth, the more does the husk drop off, the phaenomena themselves become more spiritual and at length cease altogether in our consciousness.
The phaenomena (the material) most wholly disappear, and the laws alone (the formal) must remain.
For we must learn from the Phaenomena of Nature what Bodies attract one another, and what are the Laws and Properties of the Attraction, before we enquire the Cause by which the Attraction is perform'd.
And these Discoveries being proved, may be assumed in the Method of Composition for explaining the Phaenomena arising from them: An Instance of which Method I gave in the End of the first Book.
For in all these Hypotheses the Phaenomena of Light have been hitherto explain'd by supposing that they arise from new Modifications of the Rays; which is an erroneous Supposition.
For those Phaenomena depend not upon new Modifications, as has been supposed, but upon the original and unchangeable Properties of the Rays.
There are yet other Phaenomena when these Plates are a little thicker on one side than on the other, and others when the Plates are more or less concave than convex, or plano-convex, or double-convex.
I content my self with having prosecuted this kind of Phaenomena so far as to discover their Cause, and by discovering it to ratify the Propositions in the third Part of this Book.
These are the principal Phaenomena of thin Plates or Bubbles, whose Explications depend on the properties of Light, which I have heretofore deliver'd.
Where these and such like Causes interpose not, the Colour always answers to the sort or sorts of the Rays whereof the Light consists, as I have constantly found in whatever Phaenomena of Colours I have hitherto been able to examine.
But these are Curiosities of little or no moment to the understanding the Phaenomena of Nature.
It is one of the chief agents employed in producing the phaenomena of nature.
The phaenomena are so complex that induction is of but little avail, unless supported and confirmed by deduction.
Similar phaenomena have been observed in epileptic delirium, and in the delirium of fevers.
Physiologists have in times past maintained the contrary; and some have even ventured to apply to the phaenomena of stimulation the dynamic law that "action and reaction are equal and opposite.
We may search in vain among the phaenomena of intoxication for any genuine evidences of that heightened mental activity which is said to be followed by a depressive recoil.
Its productions and features may be without example, as the phaenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes.
The natural phaenomena that take place every day before our eyes did not escape my examinations.
The first thing he published was--An attempt for the explication of the phaenomena observeable in the XXXV experiment of the honourable Robert Boyle, esq.
Thus there can be little doubt, that the further science advances, the more extensively and consistently will all the phaenomena of Nature be represented by materialistic formulae and symbols.
But when they are brought together, under certain conditions, they give rise to the still more complex body, protoplasm, and this protoplasm exhibits the phaenomena of life.
But, at the very bottom of the animal scale, even this simplicity becomes simplified, and all the phaenomena of life are manifested by a particle of protoplasm without a nucleus.
And, so far as the conditions of the manifestation of the phaenomena of contractility have yet been studied, they are the same for the plant as for the animal.
Withdraw any one of these three from the world, and all vitalphaenomena come to an end.
If the phaenomena exhibited by water are its properties, so are those presented by protoplasm, living or dead, its properties.
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