The Physical Basis of SocietyD. Appleton and Company, 1916 - 406 من الصفحات |
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... elements in the body , moreover , would undergo marked changes if the temperature were much higher than it is . Our clothing does not give heat to the body , and is a better conductor of heat than air . It is chiefly of value because it ...
... elements in the body , moreover , would undergo marked changes if the temperature were much higher than it is . Our clothing does not give heat to the body , and is a better conductor of heat than air . It is chiefly of value because it ...
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... element of utmost importance to living organ- isms is carbon although this forms only .03 per cent by volume of the atmosphere and .01 per cent by weight of water . It is stated that over 100,000 compounds of carbon are now known . Some ...
... element of utmost importance to living organ- isms is carbon although this forms only .03 per cent by volume of the atmosphere and .01 per cent by weight of water . It is stated that over 100,000 compounds of carbon are now known . Some ...
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... elements and eliminate the harmful . How these elements are changed into living structure we know not the fact has become clear . We are all familiar with the old illustration of the lily beauti- ful in spite of the mud in which it ...
... elements and eliminate the harmful . How these elements are changed into living structure we know not the fact has become clear . We are all familiar with the old illustration of the lily beauti- ful in spite of the mud in which it ...
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... elements and makes them available as plant food . Once in a while the results are less happy . In countries of good rainfall the soluble salts of calcium , magnesium , sodium and potassium are leached out of the soil and carried off ...
... elements and makes them available as plant food . Once in a while the results are less happy . In countries of good rainfall the soluble salts of calcium , magnesium , sodium and potassium are leached out of the soil and carried off ...
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... elements from the air . Thanks to the spectroscope we now know the spectrum of colors from red at the lower end to violet at the upper . Experiment has revealed that red and yellow light pro- mote the assimilation of carbon dioxid ...
... elements from the air . Thanks to the spectroscope we now know the spectrum of colors from red at the lower end to violet at the upper . Experiment has revealed that red and yellow light pro- mote the assimilation of carbon dioxid ...
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الصفحة 155 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
الصفحة 139 - I happened to read for amusement ' Malthus on Population,' and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species. Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work...
الصفحة 58 - Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.
الصفحة 139 - In October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic enquiry, I happened to read for amusement Malthus on Population, and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would...
الصفحة 54 - It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.
الصفحة 186 - The two parents between them contribute on the average onehalf of each inherited faculty, each of them contributing onequarter of it. The four grandparents contribute between them one-quarter, or each of them one-sixteenth ; and so on, the sum of the series i + J + i + TV + , being equal to 1, as it should be.
الصفحة 126 - This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
الصفحة 58 - I am tempted to give one more instance showing how plants and animals, remote in the scale of nature, are bound together by a web of complex relations.
الصفحة 159 - I can conceive in biology would be the discovery of the instability which leads to the continual division of the cell. When I look at a dividing cell I feel as an astronomer might do if he beheld the formation of a double star: that an original act of creation is taking place before me.
الصفحة 58 - I have also found that the visits of bees are necessary for the fertilization of some kinds of clover; for instance, 20 heads of Dutch clover (Trifolium repens) yielded 2,290 seeds, but 20 other heads protected from bees produced not one.