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Page 11 - Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
Page 29 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes...
Page 13 - ... the product of the sum and difference of any two quantities, is equal to the difference of their squares.
Page 8 - These two kinds of air unite with violence, they become red hot, and, upon cooling, totally disappear. When the vessel is cooled, a quantity of water is found in it, equal to the weight of the air employed. This water is then the only remaining product of the process, and water, light, and heat, are all the products," (unless, he adds in the paper of November, there be some other matter set free, which escapes our senses).
Page 2 - ... the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
Page 6 - A body immersed in a fluid, which is specifically lighter than itself, loses so much of its weight as is equal to the weight of a quantity of the fluid of the same bulk with itself.
Page 8 - ... it in a latent state, so as not to be sensible to the thermometer or to the eye ; and if light be only a modification of heat, or a circumstance attending it, or a component part of the inflammable air, then pure or dephlogisticated air is composed of water deprived of its phlogiston and united to elementary heat?
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| Titre | American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 12 American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, William Nicholson |
| Auteur | William Nicholson |
| Éditeur | Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 |
| Original provenant de | l'Université du Wisconsin - Madison |
| Numérisé | 10 nov. 2007 |
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