Of
Of Tii• Compound Sprains. The Variety Of Compound Strains Is Inexhaustible; We Can Only Be Expected Here To Treat Of The Simplest And Most Important. Iv. Of The Resistance To Cross Strains. The Usual Form Of This Strain Is When The Points Of Bearing Arc At Some Distance From Each ...
Of
Of Embass1e5• 1. By Public Minister, Is Commonly Meant The Person Whom The State Has Charged With Its Public Affairs ; In A More Particular Sense, The Person Who Is At The Head Of Some Department Of The Government; And In A Still More Confined Sense, The Person Whom The ...
Of Tile Stowage Of
Of Tile Stowage Of Siiips. On This Important Subject, We Cannot Do Better Than Introduce To Our Readers Mr. Morgan's Valuable Paper, Contained In The First Number Of His Useful Periodical Work, Named, " Papers On Naval Architecture." 'by The Stowage Of A Ship Is Meant The Disposition Of The ...
Of Vision After
Of Vision. After Having Considered, In Detail, The Various Funcafter Having Considered, In Detail, The Various Func- Tions Which Depend Upon The Contractility Of The Muscular Fibre, We Must Now Proceed To Those Which Originate In The Sensibility Of The Nervous System. These May Be Di Vided Into The Two ...
Ohre
Ohre, Where Not Only The Egyptian, But Those Of Other Nations, Will Be Fully Explained And Illustrated. The Total Annihilation Of Memphis, Heliopolis, And Other Structures, At The Northern Extremity Of This Won Derful Valley, Has Left Us Only The Pyramids, The Enor Mous Sphinx, With Vestiges Of A Great ...
Old Castile
Castile, (old) A Province Of Spain, Lies On The Western Side Of The River Ebro, Which, With The Moun Tain Of Doea, Separate It On The East From Arragon And Navarre. On The North, It Is Bounded By Asturias And Biscay ; On The West, By The Kingdom Of Leon ...
Oliver Goldsmith
Goldsmith, Oliver, Was Born In The Parish Of For Ney, And County Of Longford, In Ireland. He Was The Se Cond Son Of The Rev. Charles Goldsmith, A Respectable Cler Gyman Of The Established Church. His Early Education Was Limited To Reading, Writing, And Arithmetic, Such As Could Be Acquired ...
Omnivorous Birds
Omnivorous Birds. Beak Middle-sized, Robust, Sharp On The Edges, The Sip Per Mandible More Or Less Notched At The Point ; Feet Fur Nished With Four Toes, Namely, Three Before And One Behind, Wings Moderate, With The Quill Feathers Terminating In A Point. The Birds Which Compose This Order, Usually ...
On Absorption After
On Absorption. After. Having Given An Account Of The Means By Whichafter. Having Given An Account Of The Means By Which I Fresh Matter Is Provided, To Repair The Waste That Is Con Tinually Going Forward In The System, It Remains For Us To I Consider The Function By Which ...
On Achromatic Ete Pieces
On Achromatic Ete-pieces. In Order To Correct The Chromatic Aberration In The Eyepieces Of Telescopes, We Are Not Under The Necessity Of Using Compound Lenses Of Different Dispersive Powers, As All The Orders Of Rays Can Be United By A Particular Arrangement Of The Eye-glasses. This Will Be Obvious From ...
On Calculating Tile Tonnage
On Calculating Tile Tonnage Of Ships. The Method Of Constructing A Scale Of Solidity, Na Turally Leads To The Consideration Of The Mode By Which The Tonnage Of A Ship Should Be Calculated; An Inter Esting Disquisition On Which, We Add From The Pen Df Mr. Morgan. The Propriety Of ...
On Dioptric Burning Instruments
On Dioptric Burning Instruments. There Is Reason To Believe That The Ancients Were Ac Quainted With The Use Of Burning Lenses, Though The In Formation Upon This Point Which Has Been Conveyed To Our Times Is Extremely Trifling. All That We Know On The Subject, Indeed, Is Contained In Pliny ...
On Practical Construction
On Practical Construction.* When A Draught Of A Ship Is Formed Upon The Prin Ciples Which Have Been Laid Down, Adapting Them As Much As Possible To The Nature Or The Service On Which She Is Designed To Be Employed, And To The Seas Or Rivers Which It Is Intended ...
On Steam Vessels
On Steam Vessels. The Application Of Steam To The Propelling Of Ves Sels On The Ocean, Is Likely To Produce As Great A Revo Lution In Warfare As The First Introduction Of Cannon; And Its General Influence On Navigation Will Claim In Its Ultimate Consequences, A Rank Almost Equal With ...
On The
On The Srmitns Of Ships. The Interesting And Important Investigations, That Have Taken Place Respecting The Sterns Of Our Ships Of War, Not Having Yet Found Their Way Into Any Of Our Encyclopxdias, We Shall Devote A Short Space To Its Consideration, And Review The Arguments That Have Been Advanced ...
On The Arching Of
On The Arching Of Ships. By The Arching Of A Ship, We Mean That Alteration Of Form Which Every Vessel Undergoes From The Mo Ment It Is Launched. In Every Point Of View In Which The General Problem Of Arching Can Be Contemplated, It Will Be Found To Involve Considerations ...
On The Construction Of
On The Construction Of Ships In The Mercantile Navy. It Is Remarkable That Most Of The Investigations Of Fered To The Public Notice Respecting Shipbuilding Have An Especial Reference To The Construction Of Ships Of War, Their Ingenious Authors Seeming To Overlook The Great Variety Of Vessels Which Constitute Our ...
On The Dimensions And
On The Dimensions And Different Forms Of Ships. One Of The First And Most Important Considerations Which A Naval Constructer Has To Attend To, Is The Rela Tion Which The Co-ordinate Dimensions Of A Ship Bear To Each Other;—how The Length Should Be Related To The Breadth, And How Both ...
On The Explosion And
On The Explosion And Rupture Of Steam Boilers. The Remark, That It Is The Lot Of Mortality To Have Good United To Evil, Has Been Made A Thousand Times, And Applies With Peculiar Force To The Case Of Steam Engines. A Great Drawback Upon The Profit And Con Venience Derived ...
On The Judicial Establishments
On The Judicial Establishments Of Scotland• In The Article Law We Gave A Very Brief Account Of Some Of The Courts Of Law In Scotland. Since That Ar Ticle Was Written, The Course Of Experimental Reforma Tion, Which Commenced About Twenty Years Ago, Has Proceeded, And A Statute Of Last ...
On The Natural History
On The Natural History Of Inorganic Bodies. The Inorganic Kingdom Presents To The Naturalist Three Divisions Of Objects Of Vast Importance To Our Existence And Comfort, Which Correspond With The Ancient Distri Bution Of Inanimate Bodies, Under The Terms Air, Water, The Natural History Of The Atmosphere Is Usually Studied ...
On The Parabolic System
On The Parabolic System Of Constructing Ships Vented By Admiral F. H. Chapman. The System Which Is At Present Used By The Swed Ish Engineers, In The Construction Of Ships, Was The Result Of The Labours Of The Latter Years Of Chapman's Life; It Is Called The Parabolic Method, And ...
On The Pressure And
On The Pressure And Equilibrium Of Fluids Tuts Principle, Which Has Been Adopted As The Founda Tion Of Hydrostatics By Euler, D'alembert, Bossut, And Prony, Is A Necessary Consequence Of The Definition Which We Have Already Given Of Fluidity ; For, Since The Parts Of A Fluid Yield To The ...
On The Resistance Which
On The Resistance Which A Ship In Motion Meets With From The Water. We Come Now To The Consideration Of A Subject. Embarrassed With Difficulties Of No Ordinary Kind, And Which Will Continue To Retard The Advancement Of Na Val Architecture, So Long As Its Primary Laws Remain Imperfectly Developed. ...
On The Sails Of
On The Sails Of Ships. The Principal Object In The Formation Of A Ship, Is Its Motion Through The Water, And The Action Of The Wind On The Sails Is The Great Source From Which That Motion Is Derived. The Degree In Which This Action Is Exerted, Is Dependent In ...