Category: Science - Physics
Those who do pioneer work in science encounter not only the inherent difficulties of research and interpretation, but also the misapprehension of certain educated men whose distinctive gift is a fatal genius for applying false standards of measurement to the progress of though...
It is not uncommon in Iceland that houses, especially small outhouses, are dug into small hills, hillsides, or sloping ground, just as this house is. It is, in fact, built very...
14. Part 14The busy pen of Mr. _John Fiske_ has produced another book marked by the qualities which the public has learned to associate with all his work--lucidity of expression, felicity...
2. Part 2Social phenomena have the interesting characteristic that small forces, while never lost in that composition of forces which determines the ultimate equilibrium of the social sy...
7. Part 7"Is there a lesson, though given by the most learned professor, that could cause to live before us all the life of the Rome of the Cæsars as do these effigies? In the long succe...
13. Part 13Although Mr. Selous did not determine latitudes or longitudes, his long-distance compass bearings enabled him to lay down a network of triangles connecting Fort Salisbury with M...
16. Part 16Mr. _Frederick H. Gelman's Elements of Blowpipe Analysis_ (New York: The Macmillan Company; 60 cents) is intended to serve the twofold purpose of giving the student a general ou...
10. Part 10Our closing glance must be directed to the far Orient. Japan, the newest of kingdoms, has a model brace of institutions for superior education in agriculture. When Japan awoke t...
12. Part 12Hard on the heels of this work came news of Galvani's remarkable discovery (1790) of the fact that freshly amputated frogs' legs, on being touched along the lines of the muscles...
6. Part 6With the sudden demand for more papers came rapid progress in the mechanical department of the business. Double cylinder presses capable of printing twenty thousand papers an ho...
11. Part 11Otto von Guericke made a vast step forward by constructing the first electrical machine, in a crude form, truly, but which proved of the utmost service in adding to our knowledg...
15. Part 15The plan of the investigation undertaken by Mr. _Walter Smith_ in his _Methods of Knowledge_[36] is, first, to give a definition of knowledge. The methods are then considered by...
5. Part 5"The president assured me that if I would spend no time in intellectual drifting, adhering to the impersonal and scientific deductions of the one discoverer to whose clarified s...
3. Part 3Cape Cod[11] juts to the north with open water west of it, and beyond that again land. It has also a long, harborless coast on the east, with strands and sand banks, and is scor...
8. Part 8As a matter of fact, he has such a key at the telescope which he uses to make his observations in taking time, so that when he wishes to record the precise instant in which anyt...
1. Part 1Those who do pioneer work in science encounter not only the inherent difficulties of research and interpretation, but also the misapprehension of certain educated men whose dist...
9. Part 9Concerning Greece and the smaller kingdoms in southeastern Europe, together with the land of the Turk, not much to the encouragement of the scientific agriculturist can be said;...
17. Part 17=For Outdoor Improvement.=--The American Park and Outdoor Association has taken up and aims to nationalize the important work of the improvement of outdoors. Not that it expects...