Lectures on natural philosophy the result of many years' practical experience of the facts elucidated. With an appendix: containing, a great number and variety of astronomical and geographical problems. Also some useful tables, and a comprehensive vocabulary / [Margaret Bryan].

  • Bryan, Margaret, active 1815.
Date:
1806
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Credit: Lectures on natural philosophy the result of many years' practical experience of the facts elucidated. With an appendix: containing, a great number and variety of astronomical and geographical problems. Also some useful tables, and a comprehensive vocabulary / [Margaret Bryan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ecliptic circle. The sun’s apparent path in the heavens. It is called ecliptic because eclipses happen when the moon is in this circle. Efe7'V€sce7we. Production of heat by intestine motion. Efficient. Causing effects. Effiuvia. Small particles flying off from bodies. Effiux. The act of flowing out. . Elastic. The power of extending and regaining its former sha])e. Elementary. The first and constituent principles of any thing. Emerging. Rising from obscurity. Ephe7neris. An account of the daily motions and situations of the planets. Epocha. The time at which a new computation is begun. The time from which' dates are numbered. Equator. The circle which equates or divides the globe of our earth into two equal hemispheres, being equally distant from the north and south poles. When we speak of this circle, in reference to the sun or stars, we call it the equinoctial. Equilateral. Having all sides equal. Equilibrium. Equality of weight or power. Equinoctial points, or equinoxes. Those two points of the globe where the ecliptic ahd equatorial circles intersect each other. Ether. An element considered to be more subtile than air or light, and an intermediate agent which is supposed to fill the regions beyond the atmosphere of the planets. Etherial. Subtile, light, celestial. Evanescent. Vanishing. Evaporate. To fly off. Exhaustion. The act of drawing out. Fallacious. Deceitful.