The Royal Institution: Its Founder and Its First ProfessorsLongmans, Green, 1871 - 431 páginas |
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... Italy for his health . The principal objects in view were to determine the expansive force of the elastic vapour generated in the combustion of gunpowder in its various states of con- densation , and to ascertain the ratio of its ...
... Italy for his health . The principal objects in view were to determine the expansive force of the elastic vapour generated in the combustion of gunpowder in its various states of con- densation , and to ascertain the ratio of its ...
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... Italy on account of his health . He was absent sixteen months . At Verona the directors of the two great hospitals La Pieta and La Misericordia , containing 350 and 500 poor , accepted his offer to rebuild the kitchens . Seven - eighths ...
... Italy on account of his health . He was absent sixteen months . At Verona the directors of the two great hospitals La Pieta and La Misericordia , containing 350 and 500 poor , accepted his offer to rebuild the kitchens . Seven - eighths ...
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... Italy I brought two papers by Count Rumford , one on ' Coloured Shadows , ' the other on a ' Method of Measuring the Comparative Intensities of the Light Emitted by Lumi- nous Bodies . ' In the former he shows neatly enough that the ...
... Italy I brought two papers by Count Rumford , one on ' Coloured Shadows , ' the other on a ' Method of Measuring the Comparative Intensities of the Light Emitted by Lumi- nous Bodies . ' In the former he shows neatly enough that the ...
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... Italy with me . She appears to be most sincerely at- tached to me , and I esteem and love her very much . ' On February 7 , 1804 , the Count writes again from Paris . He and Madame Lavoisier were then making preparations for their ...
... Italy with me . She appears to be most sincerely at- tached to me , and I esteem and love her very much . ' On February 7 , 1804 , the Count writes again from Paris . He and Madame Lavoisier were then making preparations for their ...
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... Italy and the south of France , to be gone two years , so you must patiently stay where you are for the present . You will wish to know what sort of a place we live in . The house is rather an old - fashioned concern , but in a plot of ...
... Italy and the south of France , to be gone two years , so you must patiently stay where you are for the present . You will wish to know what sort of a place we live in . The house is rather an old - fashioned concern , but in a plot of ...
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