Elements of experimental and natural philosophy : being a familiar and easy introduction to the study of the physical sciences; embracing animal mechanics, pneumatics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, acoustics, optics, caloric, electricity, voltaism, and magnetism / by Jabez Hogg.

  • Hogg, Jabez, 1817-1899.
Date:
1861
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    Hydraulic clock, 123. pumps, centrifugal, 136. Hydro-electric apparatus, 453. Hydrogen, 149. Hydi'ometer, 22. Hydrostatics, 104. , level of fluids, 105. bellows, 114. paradox, 114. I equilibrium, 115. pressure, 120. press, 116. for I'aising the Britannia Bi-idge, 118. Ice, 273. Iceland spar .crystals, 422. Inclined plane, the, 70. Inertia, 35. Instruments in use in an astrono- mical observatory, 361. . Iron, expansion of, by heat, 241, Kaleidoscope, 287. i Laws of motion, 38. ] Lenses, and their construction, 295. , a meniscus, 297. • , burning, 302. , double concave, 297. , plano-concave, 297. , double convex, 298. « , plano-convex, 296. Leslie's freezing experiment, 271. ILever, the, 61. , the compound, 67. i Light from stars, 368. , diffraction of, 410. , diminution of, by distance, 281. •, fringes of, 412. - from the heavenly bodies, 292. •, how emitted, 275. •, interference of, 408. , Young's theory of, 412. •, its velocity, 278. , Kirchhofl'and Bunsen's appa- ratus, 414. —, matter as related to, 277. , nature of, 274. , polarized, 418. , radiation of, 17. Light, reflexion of, 282. , refracted, 288. , refractive, the laws of, 292. , shadow of, 279. , sources of, 276. , spectrum analyses of, 414. , theoi-y of the ray of, 310. , transmitted, 280. , vision defective through re- fraction, 290. Lightning, 463. Loadstone, 515. Luminous bodies, 277. Magdeburg's hemispheres, 154. Magic lantern, the, 394. perspective, 286. Magnet, properties of the, 515. , the declination, 525. , the horizontal-force, .526. , the vertical-force, 528. Magnetic poles, the, .521. observations, 523. axis, 517. Magnetism, its discovery, 512. Magneto-electric machine, 540. Malleability, 10. Matter, brittleness of, 9. , consistence of, 6. , density of, 8. , divisibility of, 3. , ductility of, 10. , elasticity of, 11. , hardness of, 8. , inactivity of, 35. , indestructibility of, 2. , nature of, 1. , pliability of, 11. , resistance of, 3. , state of aggregation, 6. , tenacity of, 9. Matteucci'sgalvanicexperiments, 501. Mechanics, 60. Mechanism of the human frame, 73. of other portions of the animal economy, 90. Micrometer, astronomical, 366. Microscope, the, 373. , Mr. Lister's improvement, 370. , solar, 380. Microscope, hydro-oxygen, 382.