Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 3Royal Society of Edinburgh., 1857 Obituary notices are included in many of the volumes. |
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... published by the Medico - Chirurgi- cal Society of London . Vol . XXXIII . 8vo . - By the Society . An Enquiry into M. Antoine d'Abadie's Journey to Kaffa , to discover the Source of the Nile . By C. T. Beke . 8vo . - By the Author ...
... published by the Medico - Chirurgi- cal Society of London . Vol . XXXIII . 8vo . - By the Society . An Enquiry into M. Antoine d'Abadie's Journey to Kaffa , to discover the Source of the Nile . By C. T. Beke . 8vo . - By the Author ...
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... published observations at Geneva and the great St Bernard , on the same principle as I have fully explained in my Fourteenth Letter above referred to . The comparisons of the temperature and the rate of motion lead to con- clusions ...
... published observations at Geneva and the great St Bernard , on the same principle as I have fully explained in my Fourteenth Letter above referred to . The comparisons of the temperature and the rate of motion lead to con- clusions ...
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... published his Atlas Scotia in 1654. This atlas , begun at the charge of Sir John Scott , of Scotstarvet , director of the Chancery in Scotland , was , probably , carried on and completed at the national expense . These maps , which are ...
... published his Atlas Scotia in 1654. This atlas , begun at the charge of Sir John Scott , of Scotstarvet , director of the Chancery in Scotland , was , probably , carried on and completed at the national expense . These maps , which are ...
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... published in 1744 , made considerable advances in accuracy . In 1750 , John Dorret , land - surveyor , published a map of Scotland , in five sheets , at the expense of the Duke of Argyll . This map had more pretension than any that ...
... published in 1744 , made considerable advances in accuracy . In 1750 , John Dorret , land - surveyor , published a map of Scotland , in five sheets , at the expense of the Duke of Argyll . This map had more pretension than any that ...
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... published , some of these , among which may be specially noted , Lanarkshire by Forrest , Mid - Lothian by Knox , Sutherlandshire by Burnett and Scott , and Edinburgh , Fife , and Haddington by Green- wood , have been deservedly reputed ...
... published , some of these , among which may be specially noted , Lanarkshire by Forrest , Mid - Lothian by Knox , Sutherlandshire by Burnett and Scott , and Edinburgh , Fife , and Haddington by Green- wood , have been deservedly reputed ...
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Pagina 459 - Wilson. — A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. "An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit.
Pagina 141 - It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency, to derive mechanical effect from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.
Pagina 205 - Observations made at the Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory, at Toronto, in Canada.
Pagina 53 - If an engine be such that, when it is worked backwards, the physical and mechanical agencies in every part of its motions are all reversed, it produces as much mechanical effect as can be produced by any thermodynamic engine, with the same temperatures of source and refrigerator, from a given quantity of heat.
Pagina 143 - There is at present in the material world a universal tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy. 2. Any restoration of mechanical energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible in inanimate material processes, and is probably never effected by means of organized matter either endowed with vegetable life or subjected to the will of an animated creature. 3. Within a finite period of time past, the earth must have been, and within a finite period of time to come. the earth...
Pagina 505 - Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore MC Perry.
Pagina 216 - On our attention being called to the object it was discovered to be an enormous serpent, with head and shoulders kept about four feet constantly above the surface of the sea...
Pagina 51 - That the quantity of heat produced by the friction of bodies, whether solid or liquid, is always proportional to the quantity of force expended.
Pagina 170 - The Canadian Journal ; a Repertory of Industry, Science and Art ; and a Record of the Proceedings of the Canadian Institute.
Pagina 326 - THE JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE, and the TRANSACTIONS of the HIGHLAND and AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY of SCOTLAND. Published Quarterly.