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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... five pounds and an half ; —and had a vitriolic smell . - And another weighed three pounds and an half ; -was black on the outside , as if from smoke ; —and , in- ternally , seemed composed of matter of the colour of ashes ; - in which ...
... five pounds and an half ; —and had a vitriolic smell . - And another weighed three pounds and an half ; -was black on the outside , as if from smoke ; —and , in- ternally , seemed composed of matter of the colour of ashes ; - in which ...
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... five inches long , and four broad ; nearly square ; and polished : black on the sur- face , as if smoked ; but within , like a sort of sand - stone , with various small particles of iron , and bright metallic stars . Other stones are ...
... five inches long , and four broad ; nearly square ; and polished : black on the sur- face , as if smoked ; but within , like a sort of sand - stone , with various small particles of iron , and bright metallic stars . Other stones are ...
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... five or thirty miles in height ; and , if to this conclu- sion we add , not only that some ashes actually were carried to a greater distance than two hundred miles ; but that , when any substance is at a vast height in the atmosphere ...
... five or thirty miles in height ; and , if to this conclu- sion we add , not only that some ashes actually were carried to a greater distance than two hundred miles ; but that , when any substance is at a vast height in the atmosphere ...
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... five leagues distant from the former , and therefore about three hundred miles from the latter , a shower of dust fell in the night upon the decks . + In October , 1762 , at Detroit , in America , was a most sur- prising darkness , from ...
... five leagues distant from the former , and therefore about three hundred miles from the latter , a shower of dust fell in the night upon the decks . + In October , 1762 , at Detroit , in America , was a most sur- prising darkness , from ...
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... five pounds . And in England , on the 20th of October , 1791 , in Corn- wall . Of one of the hail - stones of this latter , minor storm , I have had an opportunity of obtaining , by the favour of a friend , an exact model in glass ...
... five pounds . And in England , on the 20th of October , 1791 , in Corn- wall . Of one of the hail - stones of this latter , minor storm , I have had an opportunity of obtaining , by the favour of a friend , an exact model in glass ...
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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...