A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts, Հատոր 1

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Taylor and Walton, 1845
 

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Oblique ropes 53 Inclined plane Wedges 54 Props or shores Screws
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energy Preservation of energy or of ascending force 60 Effect of a blow
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effect of machines Experiments 67 Cautions with regard to the construction
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geometry Statics Passive strength Friction Drawing Outline 71 Pen
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LECTURE XI
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Mezzotinto Etching 92 Aqua tinta Musical characters Printing Copying
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of a labouring man 101 Temporary exertions Horses 102 Wind Water
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Fracture Strength Resilience 110 Effect of velocity Limit of strength
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Architecture Form of a column 121 Eddystone lighthouse Wall
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cathedral Pantheon Orders of architecture Gothic architecture 127 Carpen
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Kinds of wheels 136 Eccentric wheels Sun and planet wheels
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Paper
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Expansion of pendulums Compensations for clocks 153 Com
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Screws Cranes Walking wheels 160 Whites crane Weighing cranes Lewis
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LECTURE XIX
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Glaziers vice Wire drawing Pottery Glassblowing Percussion Forges
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Democritus Invention of the arch Archytas and Eudoxus
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of Syracuse 184 185 Athenæus Ctesibius 185 Vitruvius Middle ages
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LECTURE XXI
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on the bank of a river Pressure on a concave surface 200 Pressure of different
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Compressibility of liquids
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Effect of a short pipe Diverging pipe Experiments of Bernoulli Venturi
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Changes and flexures of rivers Lateral friction Venturis experiments 225 Ball
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ON HYDRAULIC PRESSURE
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LECTURE XXVI
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LECTURE XXVII
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Pitots tube Hydrometric fly Captain Hamiltons hydraulic register Motions
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Forcing pump Mixed pump Pistons Bramahs press Sucking pump
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Velocity of a blast 263 Ventilation Corn fan 264 Chimnies Furnaces
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powder Galileo Torricelli Castelli 277 Mariotte Guglielmini Guericke
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Correction on account of heat 290 Transmission in gases of different kinds
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Effect of temperature Longitudinal sounds of solids Lateral vibrations Flexi
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LECTURE XXXIX
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Uniformity of velocity Reflection and refraction 361 Partial
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LECTURE XL
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Euclid Ptolemy Alhazen Vitellio R Bacon Janson 375 Galileo
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LECTURE XLI
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Distances of the stars 390 Clusters or nebulae Arrangement of the stars
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Planets Ecliptics 400 Change of position of the ecliptic Nodes Keplerian
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ERRATA
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force of gravity 410 Suns change of place Orbits of the planets Keplerian
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satellites Comets Light of the heavenly bodies 421 Planetary worlds Fon
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Hadleys quadrant Declinations Refraction and parallax Latitudes
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plumb line Ellipticity 435 Measurements of degrees Zones 436 Climates
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Particular modifications 445 Tides of the channels and of rivers Inferior
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Arabians Persians Copernicus 456 Tycho Brahe Kepler
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logical table
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tion Essential and accidental properties of matter Extension Divisibility
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repulsion Inertia 470 Gravitation Cause of gravitation Mathematical con
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by heat 474 Liquidity Superficial cohesion 475 Bubbles Form of the surface
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Effect of velocity Pictets experiments Heat from combustion 486 Com
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Vibrations Mechanical effects of vibrations 502 Chemical effects Comparison
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tric fluid Its attractions and repulsions 508 Conductors and nonconductors
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Perforation of a jar Direction of the motion Opinions respecting
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Theory of the pile Efficacy of decomposable substances Electrical machines
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Magnetical substances 532 Aurora borealis North and South poles Attrac
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Variation of the declination Line of no declination Dip 536 Artificial mag
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ON CLIMATES AND WINDS
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Immediate effects of the sun Prévosts calculations Variations
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Precipitation Moisture Mediterranean 552 Currents
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of animals and vegetables 566 Description of a vegetable Germination
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LECTURE LIX
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Amphibia Fishes Insects 575 Vermes 576 Senses Nutrition 577 Ner
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Էջ 277 - ... so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run, like a constant fountain-stream, forty feet high.
Էջ 281 - In engines that are to be worked wholly or partially by condensation of steam, the steam is to be condensed in vessels distinct from the...
Էջ 277 - I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty foot high; one vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
Էջ 196 - ... imaginary, in contact with it, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to that particle, and whose height is equal to its depth below the upper surface of the fluid.
Էջ 468 - And to shew that I do not take Gravity for an essential Property of Bodies, I have added one Question concerning its Cause, chusing to propose it by way of a Question, because I am not yet satisfied about it for want of Experiments.
Էջ 280 - ... in common fire-engines, and which I call the steam-vessel, must, during the whole time the engine is at work, be kept as hot as the steam that enters it — first, by enclosing it in a case of wood or any other materials that transmit heat slowly ; secondly, by surrounding it with steam or other heated bodies...
Էջ 277 - Intra sphceram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon...
Էջ 464 - Besides this porosity, there is still room for the supposition, that even the ultimate particles of matter may be permeable to the causes of attractions of various kinds, especially if those causes are immaterial : nor is there anything in the unprejudiced study of physical philosophy that can induce us to...
Էջ 281 - Fourthly. I intend in many cases to employ the expansive force of steam to press on the pistons, or whatever may be used instead of them, in the same manner as the pressure of the atmosphere is now employed in common fire engines.
Էջ 281 - ... are placed weights, so fitted to them as entirely to fill up a part or portion of their channels, yet rendered capable of moving freely in them by the means hereinafter mentioned or specified. When the steam is admitted in these engines between these weights and the valves, it acts equally...

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