The student's manual of natural philosophy / [Charles Tomlinson].

  • Charles Tomlinson
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1838
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    Polarization of lights 93 Poles, magnetic, 254. 258 Pores, 14. 301. 394 Pouillet, his hygrometer, 227 Powders, specific gravity of, 185 repulsion of, by vapour of ether, 550 Powell, B., his experiment on calorific repulsion, 553 Pressure, atmospheric, 113 correction for, 229 liquid, 157 Prevost’s theory of radiant heat, 62 Priestley on divisions of science, 152 Primitive colours, 429 examples of, 430 Principles, scientific, 11. 24. 250. 377 Prism, the, 390 defined, 419 action of, 420 Prout on the air, 105. 108. 146 Ptolemy of Alexandria, his system of astronomy, 481 Ptolemy Lagus, patronizes astro¬ nomy, 481 Pump, the, 117 its action, 119 Pyrometers, 96 of Daniell, 97 of Brequet, 100 Pythagoras on the motion of the earth round the sun, 479 Quadrant, divisions of, 580 Quicksilver, definition of, 74. See Mercury. Padiation of heat, 58 Pain, theory of, 142 cause of, 201 Painbow, the, 453 formation of, 454 primary and secondary, 457 tertiary and quaternary, 459 lunar, 460 Pamsden on graduation, 249 Parefaction, cold produced by, 28 Patio, 408 Pays of light, 394. 396. 492 colorific, 420 calorific, 446 chemical, 447 direction of, 492. 535 focus of, parallel, diverging, and converging, 487 rules for finding foci, 488 Peade, his permanent soap-bubble, 530 Peaumur, his thermometer, 84 re-discovers the ancient Tyrian dye, 452 Peflecting circle, how divided, 247 telescopes, 505 varieties of, 508 Peflexion of light, 396 to 405 angle of, 397 sine of, 407 Pefraction of light, 405 to 417 index of, 409. 442 law of, 411 by the prism, 420 atmospheric, 461 through lenses, 487 Pegister-thermometers, 90 Repulsion, magnetic, 258 calorific, 552 Phimibs, 283 Rhythm, 316 Picci on the pump, 118 Ritchie on heat, 64 on Newton’s rings, 543 Ritter on the effect of light on the salts of silver, 447 Robinson on the hour-glass, 561 Robison on heat, 26 on air, 115 on vibration of a magnet, 268 his experiment with a telescope, 526 Rogers quoted, 251. 486 Romans, their divisions of the night, 575 Pomer on thermometers, 73 on velocity of light, 395 Pose’s fusible metal, 36 Royal Society on the thermometer, 80 Pumford on friction, 29 on solar rays, 45 on conduction, 56 on radiant heat, 59 Rutherford, his register-thermome¬ ter, 90 Saccharometer, the, 181 Sanctorio, thermometer of, 69 Sand, experiments on the flow of, 562 Sand-glass, phenomena of, 561 Savart, his viplin, 323 how made, 324 tested by M. Lefebvre, 325 on pitch of sounds, 334 Saussure on heat, 26 on air, 105 on boiling-points, 150 his hygrometer, 217 on the colour of the sky, 462
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