The Theological, Philosophical and Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. William Jones ...: In Twelve Volumes : to which is Prefixed a Short Account of His Life and Writings, Volum 10F. and C. Rivington, 1801 |
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Pàgina 10
... discovered by comparing the report of a cannon with the flash of its fire . The velocity of light is in- stantaneous , but sound takes some consider- able time in its passage ; so that the interval betwixt Mr. Derham says it was heard ...
... discovered by comparing the report of a cannon with the flash of its fire . The velocity of light is in- stantaneous , but sound takes some consider- able time in its passage ; so that the interval betwixt Mr. Derham says it was heard ...
Pàgina 39
... discovering im perfection in the scale , by comparing the fifth with the third major . The seventeenth , or double octave of the major third , is to the unison or fundamental note as 1 to 5 , or as 16 to 80 : but if we consider this ...
... discovering im perfection in the scale , by comparing the fifth with the third major . The seventeenth , or double octave of the major third , is to the unison or fundamental note as 1 to 5 , or as 16 to 80 : but if we consider this ...
Pàgina 53
... discovered by laying some light body on it , which will appear to be agitated so as even to fall away from the string : but if the same E 3 string 1 string makes a discord with its fellow , no motion On Sympathetic Sounds , & c . 53.
... discovered by laying some light body on it , which will appear to be agitated so as even to fall away from the string : but if the same E 3 string 1 string makes a discord with its fellow , no motion On Sympathetic Sounds , & c . 53.
Pàgina 64
... discovery . He presented to the Society , in the year 1758 , before Tartini's book was published , a memoir relating all the detail of the experiment . This is mentioned by M. D'Alembert in the Preface to his Elemens de Musique ...
... discovery . He presented to the Society , in the year 1758 , before Tartini's book was published , a memoir relating all the detail of the experiment . This is mentioned by M. D'Alembert in the Preface to his Elemens de Musique ...
Pàgina 72
... discovery in Eustathius , he determined to try whether he could reduce it to practice . Accordingly he took an old lute , and having put strings upon it , he exposed it to the wind in every man- ner he could think of ; but all without ...
... discovery in Eustathius , he determined to try whether he could reduce it to practice . Accordingly he took an old lute , and having put strings upon it , he exposed it to the wind in every man- ner he could think of ; but all without ...
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Pàgina 454 - He answered and said unto them, "When it is evening ye say, 'It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.
Pàgina 326 - Imagine all Nature now standing in a silent expectation to receive its last doom ; the tutelary and destroying angels to have their instructions ; every thing to be ready for the fatal hour; and then, after a little silence, all the host of heaven to raise their voice, and sing aloud : Let God arise ; let his enemies be scattered ; as smoke is driven away, so drive them away ; As wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
Pàgina 291 - With much difficulty I reached the top of Mount Vesuvius, in which I saw a vast aperture full of smoke, which hindered the seeing its depth and figure. I heard within that horrid gulf certain odd sounds, which seemed to proceed from the belly of the mountain ; a sort of murmuring, sighing, throbbing, churning, dashing (as it were) of waves, and between whiles a noise, like that of thunder or cannon, which was constantly attended with a clattering like that of tiles falling from the tops of houses...
Pàgina 456 - ... appears round the moon, rain will be the consequence. If the rays of the sun, breaking through the clouds, are visible in the air, and appear like those horns of irradiation which painters usually place upon the head of Moses, the air is sensibly filled with vapours, which reflect the rays to the sight; and those vapours will soon produce rain.
Pàgina 464 - In the year 1775, a drought of three months continuance, broke up at the summer solstice : the day before the rain came upon us, the swallows flew very near the ground, which they had never done in the fine weather. In the mountainous country of Derbyshire, which goes by the name of The Peak, the inhabitants observe, that if the sheep wind up the hills in the morning to their pasture, and...
Pàgina 95 - Hic canit errantem lunam solisque labores ; unde hominum genus et pecudes ; unde imber et ignes ; Arcturum pluviasque Hyadas geminosque Triones ; quid tantum Oceano properent se tinguere soles 745 hiberni, vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet.
Pàgina 455 - Islands, a redness like fire was observed all over the sky. When the sky, in a rainy season, is tinged with a seagreen colour, near the horizon, when it ought to be blue, the rain will continue and increase; if it is of a deep dead blue, it is abundantly loaded with vapours, and the weather will be showery.
Pàgina 97 - I further consider,' he says, ' that three sounds placed by the interval of a third one above another, do constitute one entire harmony, which governs and comprises all the sounds that by art or imagination can at once be joined together in musical concordance, that I cannot but think a significant emblem of that Supreme and Incomprehensible Three in One, governing, comprising, and disposing the whole machine of the world, with all its included parts, in a most perfect and stupendous...
Pàgina 292 - I observed a mixture of colours in the cloud over the crater, green, yellow, red, and blue; there was likewise a ruddy dismal light in...
Pàgina 339 - God hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, he hath weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance.