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  An Account of some Experiments and Observations on the constituent parts of certain astringent Vegetables


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id: 20751
title: Priestley in America, 1794-1804
author: Smith, Edgar Fahs
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  was given the writer years ago by a great-grandson of Joseph Priestley. many life sketches of Priestley, there has come the desire to know more think of Priestley as working only in England, his native land, and Franklin was then sixty years of age, while Priestley was little a natural philosopher." In short, Franklin "made Priestley into a man of Read Priestley''s volumes on Air and on Natural Philosophy. visit Priestley, the Tammany Society presented this address: arrival in this country by a Society of persons whose studies bear reading that the good Doctor thought "Philadelphia by no means so Many times since the days of Priestley real researchers after truth have interested in everything Priestley did during his life in this country While none of the letters to Priestley''s friends mention a family event Priestley regarded him as a rising man in the Country.[7] He


id: 21094
title: The Girl in the Golden Atom
author: Cummings, Ray
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  "None of it''s clear to me," said the Very Young Man. The Doctor crossed under the light and took an easier chair. "What did they look like going?" asked the Very Young Man. The Chemist The Banker looked startled, while the Very Young Man pulled the Chemist "He''s right, you know," said the Doctor, and the Very Young Man agreed "Get him up by the scratch," whispered the Very Young Man. The men bent closer over the table, as the Doctor looking through his "Try to put him on the scratch, too," said the Very Young Man. When the lizard was small enough the Doctor held it with the callipers "That''s a thought," said the Very Young Man. The Doctor sat down somewhat wearily, and again took the papers from his "First," said the Doctor, smiling at the Big Business Man, who lay upon


id: 17882
title: Consolations in Travel; or, the Last Days of a Philosopher
author: Davy, Humphry, Sir
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  consider religion as essential to man, and belonging to the human mind in man or men had certain powers or instincts, such as now belong to the of God to man, I can hardly suppose that an infinitely powerful and allwise Creator would bestow upon the early inhabitants of the globe a proves the natural evil tendency of the human mind after the fall of man. fitted for his existence; and I suppose in the early state of created man more natural that a change should take place in the human mind than in in man; destruction of life is only a change of existence, and supposing Mind, the creator of infinite worlds, enter into the form of a man born my feelings from nature to God; I saw in all the powers of matter the appeared like the new-born animal, works of a Divine mind; I saw love as


id: 38246
title: Heroes of Science: Chemists
author: Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
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  Berzelius--Davy''s work on acids, alkalis, and salts--He Water was regarded as a substance which, like air, readily combined with ESTABLISHMENT OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CHEMICAL SCIENCE--PERIOD OF DALTON. ESTABLISHMENT OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CHEMICAL SCIENCE--PERIOD OF DALTON. that when elements combine the atom of the compound so produced is built up method for determining the atomic weights of compounds of that element. small particles, the molecule (of a compound or of an element) and the atom water gas there are two atoms of hydrogen combined with sixteen parts by nature of the elements in the acid atoms, or even in the arrangement of the Davy''s view of an acid as a compound of water with a negative oxide was place of three atoms of hydrogen in the molecule; that the new substance At the time when Dalton was thinking out his theory of atoms, Davy was


id: 45395
title: The Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 2 (of 2)
author: Paris, John Ayrton
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  H. Davy proposes four different kinds of lamp for the purpose.--The numerous services conferred upon Science by Sir Humphry Davy, we first, the Royal Society of London, for which Davy having returned object of their deliberations, the chairman of the committee, Dr. Gray, who was generally acquainted with Sir Humphry Davy, judged it [37] Sir Humphry Davy attempted to produce the phenomena with of the Safety-lamp belongs to Sir Humphry Davy or to Mr. George The following letter from Sir Humphry Davy announces the farther In the year 1825, Sir Humphry Davy had the honour to receive These facts, Davy observes, appear to admit of many applications; Sir Humphry Davy suggests a chemical method for unrolling Sir Humphry Davy suggests a chemical method for unrolling Sir Humphry Davy thinks that whoever has considered the phenomena Philosophical Transactions for the year 1823, Sir Humphry Davy Sir Humphry Davy has observed, that "at the time when the


id: 45394
title: The Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 1 (of 2)
author: Paris, John Ayrton
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  Thomas Lawrence, presented to the Royal Society by Lady Davy; and conceives a new theory of heat and light.--His ingenious experiment of Potash discovered.--Whether Ammonia contains oxygen.--Davy''s Shortly after Dr. Murray had published his system of chemistry, Davy accompanied Mr. Children in an excursion to Tonbridge, and the new work was placed "Having observed," says Davy, "that no painful effects were In the next place, Davy''s experiment is important, inasmuch as it lecturer, Mr. Davy, to agricultural subjects; and in the following The constant appearance of acid and alkaline matter in pure water, Davy thinks that the acid and alkaline taste produced upon the between electrical powers and chemical affinities; but Davy very myself, I shall not enter into the history of Davy''s experiments It appears from the following letter, that Davy visited his friend These results Davy gained by experiments made on different kinds of


