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

  • Charles Tomlinson
Date:
1838
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Credit: The student's manual of natural philosophy / [Charles Tomlinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Steel, colours of, when heated, 543 Steering-compass, 285 Stereometer, the, 184 Strings, vibrations of, 311. 332. 337 pitch of, how altered, 331 lengths of, 338 Sturgeon on thermo-electricity, 299 Style, old and new, 568 of sun-dial, 592. See Gnomon. Suction-pumps, 122 Sugar, refined, 184 formed in vacuo, 204 Sun, the, source of heat and light, 26 azimuth of, how taken, 297 the position of, 566. 583 altered by refraction, 461 declination of, 576 rise and sun-set, 565. 575 amplitude of, 583 diurnal path of, 589 motion of, in the ecliptic, 605 Sun-dial, the, 556 construction of, 587. 594 position of the style, 587. 592 hour-lines, on, 585. 590 artificial globe and mathemati¬ cal scales used in constructing, 593 horizontal, 595 vertical, 596 position of style, 596 for different latitudes, 597 table of latitudes, 598 meridian-line, 598 time, as indicated by, 600 inclined south dial, 601 inclining and reclining dials, 601 polar dial, upper and lower, 601 equinoctial dial, 602 east and west dials, 602 deinclining dials, 603 other varieties of dials, 604 cross-diad, 604 Surfaces, radiation from, 61 Sympiesometer, 134 Synthesis, 424 Tables, Alphonsine, 482 Tait, his musical glasses, 357 Tambourine, vibration of, 307. 309. 321. 341 Tea, making of, 67 pot, the best, 67 Telescope, the, 466 history of, 498 Galilean, 499 astronomical, 502 the Newtonian, 508 Telescope, Gregorian, 510 Cassegrainian, 511 by Brewster, 511 by Herschel, 515 Telescopes, refracting, 486 reflecting, 505 lenses for, 519. 521 specula for, 523 tubes for, 525 space-penetrating power of, 526 night, 527 Temperature, standard of, 72 defined, 86 correction for, 228 Tempering, process of, 34 Tension of vapour, 112 Theory, 5 Thermo-electricity, 299 Thermometer, the, 23 defined, 68 of Sanctorio and Drebbel, 69 of Boyle, 70 Geoffrey, 70 Amoutons, 70 Florentine Academicians, 70 Hooke on, 72 Halley on, 72. 73 Newton on, 72 Homer on, 73 Fahrenheit on, 73. 84 Nicholson on, 77 tubes, mode of testing, 76 mode of filling, 77 graduation of, 79 in warm climates, 83 freezing-point, 79 boiling-point, 80 standard height of barometer, 81 correction to, 82 scale of, 84 Arago on, 83 Bellani on, 83 Heaumur on, 8 De Luc on, 84 Celsius on, 85 Delisle on, 85 Murray on, 85 Air 87 Leslie on, 89 Differential, 89 Register, 90 Rutherford on, 90 Six on, 90 Forbes, on, 91 Cavendish on, 91 Kewley on, 92 Balance, 92 Cummings on, 92
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