Book/Printed Material A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges.
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Image 1 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges.- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 2 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges.- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 3 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges.- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 4 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges.- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 5 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges.- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 6 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges.- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 7 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. S’to BY THE SAME AUTHUH, 21 £cxt~book on €l)emistrrj, FOR TIIE DSE OF SCIIOOLS AND COLLEGES. WITH NEARLY 300 ILLUSTRATIONS. 12ttfCf, SHEEP.- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 8 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges.- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 9 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY FOR THE USB OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. CONTAINING THE MOST RECENT DISCOVERIES AND FACTS COHV PILED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES. BY JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER, M.D., VBOFEBSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 10 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. 4 C 23 U777 /w7 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, by Harper Brothers, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 11 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. PREFACE. The success which has attended the publication of my Text-Book on Chemistry,” four large editions of it having been called for in less than a year, has induced me to publish,...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 12 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. IV PREFACE. which, had they been presented at first, would have dis¬ couraged or perhaps disgusted him. I am persuaded that the superficial knowledge of the physical sciences which so extensively prevails...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 13 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. TREFACE. V ferent points of view. The laws of Undulations, now beginning to be recognized as an essential portion of this department of science, I have introduced as an abstract of what...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 14 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. TREFACE. «rt first taught by Lord Bacon, that, so liable to fallacy ara the operations of the intellect, experiment must always be the great engine of human discovery, and, therefore, of human...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 15 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. CONTENTS. Lactam Tag* I. Properties of Matter. i II. Properties of Matter and Physical Forces 6 III. Natural Philosophy—Pneumatics 11 IV. Weight and Pressure of the Air .17 V. Pressure of the...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 16 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. Vlli CONTENTS. j*,-- Lectur^ei JTxXXiX. Action of Lenses y XL. Colored Light. XLI. Colored Light continued) XLII. Uridulatory Theory of Light XLIII. Polarized Light. XLIY. Double .Refraction XL VI Natural Optical Phenomena...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 17 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. INTRODUCTI CONSTITUTION OF MAT LECTURE I. Properties of Matter. The Three Forms of Mat¬ ter Vapors The distinctive essential and accessory properties. Extension. Impenetrability Unchangea¬ bility.—Illustrations of Extension.—Methods of measur¬ ing small...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 18 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. 2 DISTINCTIVE PROPERTIES. to a certain degree, it takes on the solid condition, as ic. or snow and when its temperature is sufficiently raised, it assumes the gaseous state, and is then...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 19 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES. Fig 2. their volume or figure may be, occupy a determinate por¬ tion of space. We measure them by three dimensions— length, breadth, and thickness. Impenetrability points out the fact...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 20 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. 4 UNCHANGE ABILITY OF MATTER. ability. This property may be looked upon as the foun* dation of Chemistry and though there are many phenom¬ ena which we constantly witness which seem to...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 21 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. THE SPHEROMETER. 5 lows It has three horizontal steel branches, a b c, Fig 5, which form with each other angles of 120 degrees. From the extremities of these branches there proceed...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 22 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. G ACCESSORY PROPERTIES. may be mentioned. It consists of si vessel, a a, Fig. 6, of any suitable shape, and heavy enough to sink in water when plunged with its mouth downward....- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 23 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. EXPANSIBILITY AND ELASTICITY. 7 fore. By inclosing water or any other liquid in a strong vessel, and causing a piston, driven by a screw, to act upon it, it may be reduced...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 24 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. 8 DIVISIBILITY. substance can often be altered by mechanical processes, such as by hammering, or by heating and cooling, as in the process of tempering. The divisibility of matter may be proved...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 25 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. FORCES OF ATTRACTION AND REPULSION. 0 causes them to fall, when unsupported, to the ground, or when supported, to exert pressure upon the supporting body. Nor is this property limited to terrestrial...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 26 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. 10 NATURE OF ATOMIC FORCES. are made up of minute, indivisible particles, called atoms, which are arranged at variable distances from each other. These distances are determined by the relative preva¬ lence...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 27 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. PNEUMATICS. 11 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY PROPERTIES OF THE AIR. PNEUMATICS. LECTURE III. Natural Philosophy.— Observations on this branch oj Science. Pneumatics.— General Relations of the Air.—Its connec¬ tion with Motion and Organization.—Limited Extent....- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 28 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. 12 RELATIONS OF THE ATMOSPHERE. human intellect, but which is the natural consequence of a familiarity with absolute facts. These serve us as our points of departure, and in the more difficult...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 29 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. 15XTENT OF TIIE ATMOSPHERE. 13 they come from the air, and to it they again are re¬ stored. It is not, therefore,vthe beautiful blue color which the air possesses, and which people...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 30 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. K COMPRESSIBILITY OF AIR. example, are yellow, some green, some purple, and some *ed. The first striking property of atmospheric air which we encounter, is the facility with which the volume of...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 31 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. ELASTICITY OF AIR. 15 am ag them that we find the lightest substance in nature —hydrogen gas. They are, moreover, the only perfectly elastic substances that we know. Thus, a quantity of...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 32 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. 16 VARIABLE DENSITY OF THE ATM :S1 HERE. one, for the limited extent of the atmosphere, may alsi be assigned—contraction—arising from cold. Observa tion has shown that, as we rise to greater...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 33 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. THE AIR-PUMP. 17 LECTURE IV. Weigiit*and Pressure of the Air. Description of the Air-pump.—Its Action. Limited Exhaustion Fun¬ damental fact that Air has weight.—Relative weight of other Gases. TVeight gives rise to...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 34 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. 18 STRUCTURE OF THE AIR-PUMP. tom of each syritge, and when the handle, b, is moved the syringes withdraw the air from the interior of the jar From the same central perforation...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 35 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. STRUCTURE OF THE AIR-PUMP. 19 into the globe shuts and now as the piston comes down it condenses the air below it, and as this air is condensed it resists exerting its...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 36 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. 20 WEIGHT OF THE AIR. proved in a very Fig. 13. atisfactory manner by the aid of tho pump. Let theie be a glass flask, a Fig. 13, the mouth of which...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 37 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. PRESSURE OF THE AIR- 21 Fig. 15. From the fact that the air has weight, it necessarily follows that it exerts pressure on all those portions that are in the lower regions,...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 38 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. 22 PRESSURE OF TIIE AIR. LECTLRE V. The Pressure of the Air. The Magdeburg Hemis¬ pheres Water supported by Air. The Pneumatic Trough. The Barometer. —Description of this Instrument.—Cause of its Action.—Different...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 39 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. PRESSURE OF TIIE AIR. 23 a piece of paper should be used provided the glass has the proper form. Thus, let there be a bottle, a, Fig. 19, in the bottom of...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867
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Image 40 of A text-book on natural philosophy for the use of schools and colleges. 24 TIIE BAROMETER. space or vacuum between the top of the mercury and tne top of the jar. Fig. 21 This experiment which, as we are soon to see, is a very...- Contributor: Draper, John William
- Date: 1867