The Fairy-land of ScienceD. Appleton and Company, 1903 - 252 страници |
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... substances of the earth ; that is to say , we can not split it up into other substances , wherever we find it , it is always the same . Now if I put this piece of potas- sium on the water it does not disappear quietly like the sugar ...
... substances of the earth ; that is to say , we can not split it up into other substances , wherever we find it , it is always the same . Now if I put this piece of potas- sium on the water it does not disappear quietly like the sugar ...
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... substance potash in the basin ; made with a great deal of fuss by chemical attraction drawing different atoms together . When you can really picture this power to yourself it will help you very much to understand what you read and ...
... substance potash in the basin ; made with a great deal of fuss by chemical attraction drawing different atoms together . When you can really picture this power to yourself it will help you very much to understand what you read and ...
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... clasping each other , and mingling so as to make a new substance , and to feel how wonderful are the many changing forms of nature . It is useful to be able to classify a flower and to know that THE FAIRY - LAND OF SCIENCE . 19.
... clasping each other , and mingling so as to make a new substance , and to feel how wonderful are the many changing forms of nature . It is useful to be able to classify a flower and to know that THE FAIRY - LAND OF SCIENCE . 19.
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... waves , travelling across space much in the same way as ripples travel across a pond . The only difficulty was to explain in what substance these waves could be travelling : not through water , 34 THE FAIRY - LAND OF SCIENCE .
... waves , travelling across space much in the same way as ripples travel across a pond . The only difficulty was to explain in what substance these waves could be travelling : not through water , 34 THE FAIRY - LAND OF SCIENCE .
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... substance filling all space between us and the sun and the stars ; a sub- stance so very delicate and subtle , that not only is it invisible , but it can pass through solid bodies such . as glass , ice , or even wood or brick walls ...
... substance filling all space between us and the sun and the stars ; a sub- stance so very delicate and subtle , that not only is it invisible , but it can pass through solid bodies such . as glass , ice , or even wood or brick walls ...
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Страница 154 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Страница 197 - That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Страница 3 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.