Remarks Concerning Stones Said to Have Fallen from the Clouds: Both in These Days and in Antient TimesG. Nicol, 1796 - 34 sider |
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... England , ) I cannot but think it doing some service to the cause of literature , and science , to give to the world , in the earliest instance , a short A 2 abridgement of the substance of the whole of the information [ 3 ]
... England , ) I cannot but think it doing some service to the cause of literature , and science , to give to the world , in the earliest instance , a short A 2 abridgement of the substance of the whole of the information [ 3 ]
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... England . In France , on the 13th of July in the year 1788 ; -of which it is well known there has been a printed account : and con- cerning which it is said , and has been confirmed , on good au- thority , that some of the stones ...
... England . In France , on the 13th of July in the year 1788 ; -of which it is well known there has been a printed account : and con- cerning which it is said , and has been confirmed , on good au- thority , that some of the stones ...
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... strange showers of hail , in France , and in England , it might perhaps too justly be deemed an unwarrantable omission , on this occasion , not to mention the very strange fact that is affirmed to have happened [ 20 ]
... strange showers of hail , in France , and in England , it might perhaps too justly be deemed an unwarrantable omission , on this occasion , not to mention the very strange fact that is affirmed to have happened [ 20 ]
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... England . Nor can I easily conceive that such a spe- cies of stone could be formed , by art , to impose upon the public . Whether , therefore , it might , or might not , possibly be the effect of ashes flung out from Heckla , and wafted ...
... England . Nor can I easily conceive that such a spe- cies of stone could be formed , by art , to impose upon the public . Whether , therefore , it might , or might not , possibly be the effect of ashes flung out from Heckla , and wafted ...
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... England and Scotland . † That the head , which appeared about half the diameter of the moon , was of a bright white , like iron when almost in a melting heat ; the tail , which appeared about 8 ° in length , was of a duskish red , burst ...
... England and Scotland . † That the head , which appeared about half the diameter of the moon , was of a bright white , like iron when almost in a melting heat ; the tail , which appeared about 8 ° in length , was of a duskish red , burst ...
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Remarks Concerning Stones Said to Have Fallen from the Clouds, Both in These ... EDWARD. KING Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2018 |
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16th of June affirmed afterwards ages of antiquity Agram Artois ash colour black crust blackish crystals cerning Chladni Christian æra composed conclusion consolidation Cornwall Cotentin curious described earth EDWARD KING Eichstedt specimen Eichstedt stone England Ephesus extraordinary facts fall of stones fallen from heaven fire formed ground hail hail-stones hardened heard height hissing noise hundred miles inch instantly Italy Jupiter kind LIBRARY 60 Garden lightning manner mass of iron melted mentioned meteor o'clock OBSERVATORY LIBRARY 60 ounce parallelopiped particles persons phænomenon Philos plainly Plutarch preserved Professor Soldani Psalm pyramidal stones pyritical spots remarkable remembrance sand says seems shew shower of stones Siena similar events Sir Charles Blagden Sir John Pringle Sir William Hamilton SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY smoke sort sparks specific gravity stones fell stones that fell storm strata of rocks Stutz substance sulphur surface testimony thunder tion Trans volcano whilst Yorkshire
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Side 11 - ... of the stones and the attendant manifestation of electrical phenomena are the points common to the various observations. The explanation cited from a Mr. King by Cavallo seems most in accord with Shelley's employment of the phenomenon and also with Beccaria's surmise as to its electrical character: It is also well known, that a mixture of pyrites of almost any kind, beaten small, and mixed with iron filings and water, when buried in the ground, will take fire, and produce a sort of artificial...
Side 32 - The merciful and gracious Lord hath so done His marvellous works : that they ought to be had in remembrance.
Side 15 - So Tacitus says, that at Cyprus, the image of Venus was not of human shape; but a figure rising continually round, from a larger bottom to a small top, in conical fashion. And it is to be remarked, that Maximus Tyrius (who perhaps was a more accurate mathematician), says, the stone was pyramidal...
Side 17 - He made darkness his | secret | place ! his pavilion round about him with dark water, and thick| clouds to | cover | him. 19 At the brightness of his presence his | clouds re- | moved ! hail-] stones, and | coals of | fire.
Side 14 - Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter...
Side 21 - Dec. 13, 1795, heard various noises in the air, like pistols, or distant guns at sea, felt two distinct concussions of the earth, and heard a hissing noise passing through the air; and a labouring man plainly saw (as we are told) that something was so passing and beheld a stone . . . descending, and striking into the ground which flew up all about him and, in falling, sparks of fire seemed to fly from it.
Side 16 - Plutarch mentions a stone which formerly fell from the clouds; and the old writer from whom he took his account says : ( It hovered about for a long time ; seemed to throw out splinters, which flew around like wandering stars, before they fell, and at last it came down to the earth a stone of extraordinary size.
Side 7 - the stones were generated in the air by a combination of mineral substances which had risen somewhere or other as...
Side 14 - In the Acts of the holy Apostles, we read, that the chief magistrate, at Ephesus, begun his harangue to the people, by saying, " Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knowetb " not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the • Philos.
Side 24 - Lightning is an electrical stroke on a large scale. — If then the reduction of iron can be obtained, by the discharge of an electrical machine; why should not this be accomplished as well and with greater effect by the powerful discharge of the lightning of the...