Volume 1

Caloric: its mechanical, chemical, and vital agencies in the phenomena of nature / By Samuel L. Metcalfe.

  • Metcalfe, Samuel L. (Samuel Lytler), 1798-1856.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Caloric: its mechanical, chemical, and vital agencies in the phenomena of nature / By Samuel L. Metcalfe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the animating principle, 541 ; on the cause of the blood’s coagulation, 646 ; on the unity of all animals, 757 ; his logical demonstration of a Trinity, 857, note. AiiNOTT, Dr. on attraction and repulsion as ultimate phenomena, 16; his definition of a menstruum, 235; his four elementary truths, 277. Asclepiades, his excellent medical axiom, 982. Ashmun, on the difficulty of healing wounds in central Africa, 810, note. Asia, mountains of, 24, 696, note; its extent and population, 695, 697 ; why warmer than America in the same latitudes, 701, note. Asthma, mortality from in England and Wales, 785, table; its prevalence during winter, 786; reduction of temperature in, 797. Astronomers, on variations in the planetary inclinations, 28 ; great discoveries of, 33. Atmosphere, owes its volume and elastic force to caloric. Atoms, theory of, 46; electrical polarity of, 166; Kant’s theory of, 172. Attraction, of caloric for ponderable matter the cause of all other attractions, 13, 17 ; regarded as an ultimate principle of action, 16; of cohesion, 17; capillary, theory of, 253 ; foundation of, 17, 200 ; aggregate force of maintains the earth in the glo¬ bular form, 18 ; primary physical cause and rationale of, 110; chemical, views of by Oerstedt, Prout, and Whewell, 199; promoted by heat and arrested by cold, 211, 220; views of Dr. Black, 212 ; of Sir H. Davy and Berzelius, 221. Aurora Borealis, theory of, 361. Axiom of Newton, 270. Axis, inclination of the earth’s, 27, 28 ; Laplace on, 27 ; Milton on, 28, note ; motion of the sun on his, 41; of the planets on their axes, 43. Baal, an ancient Chaldean and Phoenician name of the sun, 741. Back, Captain, on the temperature of North America on the Great Slave Lake, 350. Bacon, Lord, his definition of heat, 3 ; contradictory opinions of, 3; on the defects of physical science, 156; on the neglect of ancient wisdom, 160; his classification of matter, 160; on the elder Cupid, or attraction of the atom, 162; on the contraction and expansion of matter, 162; on living astronomy, 162; regards heat and cold as nature’s two hands, 176; on the innate heat of different bodies, 190; on the generation and transformation of bodies, 197; on the ancient Pan, 273; on the heat of lightning, 318; on tornados, 338, 343; on the