Scientific memoirs : being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy / by John William Draper.

  • Draper, John William, 1811-1882.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Scientific memoirs : being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy / by John William Draper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX. Absorbent media, action of 197 Absorption of chemical rays 231 . . of radiant Iieiit 200 ofradiaiions, necessity of. ]8t! Achromaticity of camera 210 Actinic rays 130-132 Adhesion and capillary attraction... 346 Air in interior of flame 68 Albertus Magnus on phosphores- cence 135,1.59 Alchemy 313-315 Alcohol flame spectrum, analysis of. .55 AUotropism in living beings. 375 its successive stages 310 of chlorine 284 Analogies of heat and chemical rays. 230 Angstrom's discovery 186 law 428 Animal and flame, analogy of. 189 Animals, circulation in 370 Antagonism in sjiectra 98 Anthracite, burning, analysis of 57 Arseniuretted iiydrogen 55 Arterialization of blood 378 Atmospheric lines 75 Attraction, capillary 34.2 B. Baldwin's phosphorus 134. Bancnlari's experiment 456 Becquerel on rai/ons conlinuateurs... 278 on ultra red lines 79 Bending of stems of plants 413 Berzeliiis on allotropism 370 on carbon compounds 303 Bitumens and resins 408 J51ood, arterialization of 373 151ou-])ipe flame 68-69 Bologiiian stone I34 J5oracic acid, spectrum of ' 55 i$ouguer's photometric method... 30 156 criticised by Mel- . loni.... 49 Boyle, experiments of, on diamond.. 135 on inovemoiits in solids 343 Brewster's experiments, criticism on. 36 Bromide of silver as test 202 Bromine cannot decompose water... 445 Bubbles, soap, endosmosis through,. 356 Budde on ciilorine 427 Bunsen and Eoscoe, experiments of. 429 quoted 263 Burning glasses and mirrors... 436-441 driven by clock 443 Calcium light, radiations of 320 Calorific hypothesis of vision 102 Camphor, experiments with 203 Canton's phosphorus 136 Capillary attraction 342 an electric phe- nomenon 346 Carbon, allotropism of 285 nucleus in vision 105 solid, disengaged in flame .. 60 Carbonic acid decomjjosed by color- ed solutions 172 decomposed by light.. 167 '* decomposed in spec- trum 169,410 Carbonic oxide, spectrum analvsis of '.54,66 Carbuncle, legend of. 133 Chemical force, distribution of, in spectrum 404 hypothesis of vision 105 radiations, absorption of.. 201 rays,action of silver iodide ^, , , on 236 ( hlor-hydrogen ]ihotometer 245 Chlorine and hydrogen, relation to flight 248, 282, 425, 431 Chlorine, active and inactive 271 duration of its modifica- tion 273, 283, 313 indigo rays absorbed by... 276 its allotropism .,. 284 modified 271 substitutes hydrogen 306 two stages in its modifica- tion 274 water decomposed by 286 Ciilorophane, itsiihosphore.sccnt prop- 141