An Attempt to Establish a Pure Scientific System of Mineralogy: By the Application of the Electro-chemical Theory and the Chemical Proportions

Przednia okładka
R. Baldwin, 1814 - 144
 

Wybrane strony

Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko

Kluczowe wyrazy i wyrażenia

Popularne fragmenty

Strona 143 - WERNER'S NOMENCLATURE OF COLOURS. With Additions, arranged so as to render it highly useful to the Arts and Sciences, particularly Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Morbid Anatomy. Annexed to which are Examples selected from Well-known Objects in the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms.
Strona 143 - The Meteorologist's Annual Assistant in keeping a Diary of the Weather; or, Register of the State of the Barometer, Thermometer, Wind, &c. and fall of Rain. Folio, price 3s. sewed.
Strona 12 - Hence it follows that in every compound body there are one or more electro-positive with one 11 12 or more electro-negative ingredients, * which, as the combinations consist of oxides, means the same as that every body in the combination, called by us a lasis, must be answered by another which acts the part of an acid, even supposing that in its isolated situation it does not possess the general characters for which acids are distinguished, namely, a sour taste, and the property of changing vegetable...
Strona 140 - ... subjects discussed. To each volume there are two Tables of Contents: one corresponding with the number as printed ; the other exhibiting the different subjects classed under their respective heads.
Strona 141 - Encyclopaedia from every work of a similar kind. The volumes already published contain numerous inventions and discoveries, and many original views in the Arts and Sciences, which were never before communicated to the Public.
Strona 139 - The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, from their Commencement in 1665, to the Year 1800, abridged ; with Notes and Biographical Illustrations. By CHARLES HUTTON, LL.
Strona 140 - Original, as complete as moderate limits and a reasonable price would allow. The subjects are presented in the same order in which they appear in the original. The more important dissertations are reprinted in the style and language of the respective authors...
Strona 19 - ... solutions in water, although it is equally applicable to other crystallizing mixed liquids. The opinion, that minerals have been produced by the fusing agency of a high temperature and a consequent cooling, has not yet lost all its advocates, although a single decrepitating crystal, a single petrifaction, is an incontestable proof for all who can perceive what is proved by the existence of these. It is clear, on the other hand, that we often see formed crystals which, according to what we have...
Strona 140 - It has consequently been several times projected, bat as often abandoned on account of the immense expense which would have attended the undertaking. At last it was determined to publish an Abridgment of the Work, but upon a plan which should render it a substitute for the Original, at complete as moderate limits and a reasonable price would allow.
Strona 142 - Essay on the Theory of the Earth. Translated from the French of M. Cuvier, Perpetual Secretary of the French Institute.

Informacje bibliograficzne