item: #1 of 102
          id: 10060
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: Discourses: Biological & Geological Essays
        date: None
       words: 96781
      flesch: 52
     summary: Other observers have not succeeded in verifying these statements; and my own observations lead me to believe, that while the connection between _Torula_ and the moulds is a very close one, it is of a different nature from that which has been supposed. But the fact is that the proportion of other _Foraminifera_ is exceedingly small, nor have I found as yet, in the deep-sea deposits, any such matters as fragments of molluscous shells, of _Echini_, &c., which abound in shallow waters, and are quite as likely to be drifted as the heavy _Globigerinoe_.
    keywords: acid; air; animals; area; atlantic; bodies; body; carbonic; case; chalk; changes; clay; coal; conditions; course; day; deposit; depths; development; distribution; doctrine; doubt; earth; end; epoch; evidence; existence; existing; fact; fathoms; fauna; feet; footnote; formation; forms; geological; geology; globigerinoe; great; history; hypothesis; knowledge; land; life; living; matter; means; miocene; modification; mud; nature; new; north; ocean; order; organisms; parts; period; physical; place; plants; present; question; reason; red; remains; results; rise; rocks; science; sea; series; south; species; structure; substance; sugar; surface; things; time; types; vegetable; water; way; world; years; yeast
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        item: #2 of 102
          id: 10427
      author: Kingsley, Charles
       title: Scientific Essays and Lectures
        date: None
       words: 49667
      flesch: 68
     summary: The subject seems to me especially fit for a clergyman; for he should, more than other men, be able to avoid trenching on two subjects rightly excluded from this Institution; namely, Theology-- that is, the knowledge of God; and Religion--that is, the knowledge of Duty. All this and more, gentlemen and ladies, the pebble could tell to you, and will: but he is old and venerable, and like old men, he wishes to be approached with respect, and does not like to be questioned too much or too rapidly; so that you must not be offended if you meet with more than one rebuff from him; or if he keeps stubborn silence, till he has seen that you are a modest and attentive person, to whom it is worth while to open a little of his forty or fifty thousand years' experience.
    keywords: animals; chalk; children; clay; course; day; earth; england; facts; fear; god; good; gravel; history; knowledge; land; law; life; london; look; man; men; mind; nature; pit; plants; reason; sands; science; sea; south; species; study; superstition; theology; things; thought; time; wasp; water; work; world; years
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        item: #3 of 102
          id: 1216
      author: Babbage, Charles
       title: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes
        date: None
       words: 49891
      flesch: 53
     summary: Here, then, we find Mr. Children, who has been on the Council of the Royal Society, and who was, a few years since, one of its Secretaries, pressing one of his friends to become, and actually insisting on proposing him as, a Fellow of the Royal Society, He must have been well aware of the feelings which prevail amongst the Council as to the propriety of such a step, and by publishing the fact, seems quite satisfied that such a course is advantageous to the interests of the Society. Perhaps I ought to apologize for the large space I have devoted to the Royal Society.
    keywords: attention; board; body; captain; circumstance; committee; council; country; england; fact; john; knowledge; list; medals; meeting; members; names; nature; new; number; object; observations; opinion; order; persons; place; present; president; public; royal; science; sir; society; state; subject; time; transactions; year
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        item: #4 of 102
          id: 12506
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: Critiques and Addresses
        date: None
       words: 102011
      flesch: 55
     summary: Other observers have not succeeded in verifying these statements; and my own observations lead me to believe, that while the connection between _Torula_ and the moulds is a very close one, it is of a different nature from that which has been supposed. In fact there is, even at present, considerable ground for suspecting the existence of _Dinosauria_ in the Permian formations; but, in that case, lizards must be of still earlier date.
    keywords: animals; appears; area; berkeley; body; case; change; characters; coal; conditions; consciousness; dark; darwin; day; distance; doctrine; doubt; education; end; epoch; europe; evidence; evolution; existence; fact; fair; fauna; footnote; form; good; government; great; hand; having; history; ideas; islands; knowledge; land; language; life; living; man; mankind; matter; means; men; mind; miocene; mivart; motion; nature; new; north; number; order; origin; parts; people; period; place; plants; point; power; present; professor; question; reason; reef; remains; reviewer; rise; school; science; sea; sensations; sense; society; species; state; stock; structure; suarez; substance; sugar; surface; teaching; things; thought; time; use; views; water; way; words; work; world; years; yeast
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        item: #5 of 102
          id: 1315
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: Autobiography and Selected Essays
        date: None
       words: 55166
      flesch: 60
     summary: When the polypes formed by budding or division remain associated, the polypidom is sometimes made up of nothing but an aggregation of these cups, while at other times the cups are at once separated and held together, by an intermediate substance, which represents the branches of the red coral. And not only do the remains of stately oaks and well-grown firs testify to the duration of this condition of things, but additional evidence to the same effect is afforded by the abundant remains of elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotomuses and other great wild beasts, which it has yielded to the zealous search of such men as the Rev. Mr. Gunn.[71] When you look at such a collection as he has formed, and bethink you that these elephantine bones did veritably carry their owners about, and these great grinders crunch, in the dark woods of which the forest-bed is now the only trace, it is impossible not to feel that they are as good evidence of the lapse of time as the annual rings of the tree-stumps.
    keywords: animal; case; chalk; coral; day; education; england; english; existence; fact; feet; footnote; form; general; good; hand; history; huxley; kind; knowledge; land; life; living; man; matter; men; mind; mud; nature; new; parts; people; place; plant; polypes; present; protoplasm; reef; science; sea; society; structure; subject; surface; things; thought; time; truth; water; way; words; work; world; years
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        item: #6 of 102
          id: 14565
      author: Humboldt, Alexander von
       title: Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
        date: None
       words: 179005
      flesch: 51
     summary: de Jacquemont', t. ii., p. 58 Graec', t. ii., p. 302, 320, 340; also Aristot., 'Meteor.', i., 7 (Ideler's 'Comm.', t. i., p. 404-407); Stob., 'Eel. Phys.', i., 25, p. 508 (Heeren); Plut., 'Lys.', c. 12; Diog.
    keywords: action; activity; air; america; arago; asia; atmosphere; bodies; causes; central; changes; character; chemical; clouds; comet; condition; connection; continent; cosmos; course; crust; currents; day; degrees; density; depth; der; des; description; development; difference; direction; discovery; distance; distribution; earth; earthquakes; elevation; equator; eruption; europe; existence; facts; fall; feet; fire; footnote; forces; form; formations; general; geographical; geography; globe; granite; greek; heat; height; history; humboldt; iii; increase; influence; instance; intensity; interior; islands; knowledge; land; latitude; laws; level; life; light; like; limestone; limits; line; long; magnetic; magnetism; manner; masses; matter; mean; miles; mind; moon; motion; mountain; natural; nature; near; new; northern; november; number; observations; ocean; order; organic; origin; parts; period; phenomena; physical; planet; plants; point; portion; position; present; quantity; regions; relations; remains; results; rise; rocks; science; sea; shooting; snow; south; southern; space; species; stars; state; stones; strata; study; sun; surface; system; temperature; terrestrial; time; universe; upper; vegetable; views; volcanic; volcanoes; von; water; west; work; world; years
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        item: #7 of 102
          id: 14750
      author: Cilley, Jonathan Prince
       title: Bowdoin Boys in Labrador An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department
        date: None
       words: 26538
      flesch: 68
     summary: It was many days before their haggard appearance, with sunken eyes and dark rings beneath them, and their extreme weakness disappeared. When loaded, she still draws but little water, and is good in every way for the trip.
    keywords: bay; boat; bowdoin; camp; cary; coast; cole; day; days; eskimo; falls; feet; grand; harbor; island; labrador; lake; left; men; miles; night; north; party; place; river; shore; time; trip; vessel; water; way; wind; work
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        item: #8 of 102
          id: 15253
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
        date: None
       words: 22481
      flesch: 51
     summary: [Sidenote: caused by the increase of physical science] This revolution--for it is nothing less--in the political and social aspects of modern civilisation has been preceded, accompanied, and in great measure caused, by a less obvious, but no less marvellous, increase of natural knowledge, and especially of that part of it which is known as Physical Science, in consequence of the application of scientific method to the investigation of the phenomena of the material world. Not that the growth of physical science is an exclusive prerogative of the Victorian age.
    keywords: 12mo; bodies; body; century; cloth; doctrine; energy; evolution; fact; heat; history; hypothesis; knowledge; living; matter; motion; nature; new; phenomena; present; progress; science; sidenote; theory; time; world
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        item: #9 of 102
          id: 15468
      author: Caithness, James Sinclair, 14th earl of
       title: Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects
        date: None
       words: 36900
      flesch: 64
     summary: Taking the area of this field to be 750 square miles--a most probable estimate--we may classify the contents as household coal, steam coal, or those employed in steam-engine boilers, and coking coal, employed for making coke and gas. One of the most recent improvements is the Turbine, a sort of Barker's mill; it is of great power, small compass, and acts under a good fall with a minimum expenditure of water-power.
    keywords: air; art; body; coal; communication; day; engine; feet; force; form; heat; man; means; mind; particles; penny; place; power; present; press; pressure; produce; science; steam; time; tons; use; vessel; water; way; work; world; years
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        item: #10 of 102
          id: 15807
      author: Warren, Henry White
       title: Among the Forces
        date: None
       words: 36375
      flesch: 80
     summary: It could not let go its hold of the water in the mine, nor anywhere else, for fear everything would go to pieces, but it offered to overcome force with greater force. Greater power is in the wind everywhere.
    keywords: air; day; earth; end; feet; fire; force; god; gravitation; great; half; heat; help; inch; life; light; man; matter; men; miles; mountains; nature; new; power; pressure; rock; salt; sea; solid; space; steam; sun; things; time; water; waves; way; wind; wire; work; world
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        item: #11 of 102
          id: 15884
      author: None
       title: Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
        date: None
       words: 101498
      flesch: 68
     summary: So the name of Primary Rocks, or First Rocks, was given to the granites and other such rocks, and the name of Secondary Rocks to all water-built rocks; while those of the third class were called Transition Rocks, because they seemed to be a kind of link or stepping-stone in the change from the First to the Second Rocks. 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.
    keywords: ages; air; animals; bodies; case; chalk; conditions; course; creatures; crust; day; days; deep; distance; earth; fact; feet; fig; fire; forms; globe; great; ground; half; heat; history; illustration; kind; land; layers; life; light; living; long; look; man; mass; miles; minute; mountain; mud; nature; new; number; ocean; parts; past; period; phenomenon; phosphorescence; pitch; place; plants; point; power; present; process; remains; rocks; science; sea; shells; size; species; sponge; stars; substance; sun; surface; telescope; think; time; tree; water; wave; way; white; work; world; years
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        item: #12 of 102
          id: 15905
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
        date: None
       words: 113934
      flesch: 56
     summary: If the concurrent testimony of the three synoptics, then, is really sufficient to do away with all rational doubt as to a matter of fact of the utmost practical and speculative importance--belief or disbelief in which may affect, and has affected, men's lives and their conduct towards other men, in the most serious way--then I am bound to believe that Jesus implicitly affirmed himself to possess a knowledge of the unseen world, which afforded full confirmation of the belief in demons and possession current among his contemporaries. But the number of such men, driven into the use of scientific methods of inquiry and taught to trust them, by their education, their daily professional and business needs, is increasing and will continually increase.
    keywords: account; authority; belief; body; case; century; character; christianity; church; course; day; doctrine; doubt; duke; eginhard; events; evidence; evolution; existence; fact; faith; form; gadara; gadarene; general; gladstone; good; gospel; hand; having; history; jesus; jews; judgment; know; knowledge; law; laws; life; lord; man; mark; matter; matthew; means; men; mind; miracles; nature; new; opinion; order; paul; people; physical; place; point; present; question; right; science; second; sense; set; subject; theory; things; thought; time; truth; wace; way; work; world; years
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        item: #13 of 102
          id: 16325
      author: Allen, Grant
       title: Science in Arcady
        date: None
       words: 85312
      flesch: 61
     summary: The South Saxon kings probably lived for the most part at Chichester, though no doubt they had _hams_, after the royal Teutonic fashion generally, in many other parts of their territory; and they moved about from one to the other, with their suite of thegns, eating up in each what food was provided by their serfs for their use, and then moving on to the next. Woolsonbury, Westburton Hill, Clayton Hill, Wilmington, Hangleton Down, Plumpton Plain, and many other places along the coast have yielded large numbers of bronze implements; while the occurrence of the raw metal in lumps, together with the finished weapons, at Worthing and Beachy Head, as well the discovery of a mould for a socketed celt at Wilmington, shows that the actual foundry work was performed in Sussex itself.
    keywords: age; air; animals; birds; britain; bronze; case; ceaster; coast; conditions; country; course; day; days; doubt; downs; eggs; eliza; end; england; english; europe; example; fact; find; fish; florence; flowers; food; forest; form; fruits; general; good; green; group; hand; hill; history; human; islands; leaves; life; little; london; look; means; men; modern; mountain; mud; names; native; nature; near; new; north; northern; parrots; people; period; place; plain; plants; point; present; river; roman; round; saxon; sea; seeds; soil; sort; south; species; stone; supply; sussex; thanet; time; town; trees; type; valley; water; way; weald; welsh; west; world
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        item: #14 of 102
          id: 16474
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: Lectures and Essays
        date: None
       words: 82774
      flesch: 55
     summary: Il._, Ilium; _a_, anterior end; _b_, posterior end _Is._, ischium; _Pb._, pubis; _T_, tibia; _F_, fibula; _As. Applying the name of the New Philosophy to that estimate of the limits of philosophical inquiry which I, in common with many other men of science, hold to be just, the Archbishop opens his address by identifying this New Philosophy with the Positive Philosophy of M. Comte (of whom he speaks as its founder); and then proceeds to attack that philosopher and his doctrines vigorously.
    keywords: animals; authority; belief; birds; body; case; century; christian; christianity; church; course; day; doctrine; doubt; eginhard; end; evidence; evolution; existence; fact; faith; footnote; form; good; gospel; hand; history; horse; hypothesis; jesus; know; knowledge; life; living; lord; man; matter; men; miracles; nature; new; order; paul; people; place; point; present; protoplasm; question; remains; science; sense; series; state; things; time; truth; way; work; world; years
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        item: #15 of 102
          id: 16593
      author: Clark, Bertha May
       title: General Science
        date: None
       words: 98381
      flesch: 71
     summary: If steam at high pressure is directed by nozzles against the blades of a wheel, rapid rotation of the wheel ensues just as it did in Figure 121, although in this case steam pressure replaces water pressure. relation of pressure of gas to volume, 95, 96. water pressure, 208-211, 214-216. within the body, 86. Primary colors, 135.
    keywords: acid; air; atmosphere; body; carbon; cell; coil; cold; color; current; day; distance; electric; electricity; energy; feet; fig; figure; fire; food; force; form; gas; glass; heat; illustration; iron; lens; light; magnet; man; matter; means; motion; number; order; oxygen; place; point; power; pressure; red; salt; second; section; soda; solution; sound; steam; substances; sun; supply; surface; temperature; time; tube; use; water; water supply; way; weight; wheel; wire; wood; work
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        item: #16 of 102
          id: 16614
      author: Joly, John
       title: The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
        date: None
       words: 77216
      flesch: 62
     summary: It thus loses a definite portion of its mass and of its energy. Helium which is chemically one of the most inert of the elements, is, when possessed of such great kinetic energy, able to penetrate and ionise the atoms which it meets in its path. Such great ranges as those which border with triple walls the west coast of North America are in no sense volcanic: nor are the Pyrenees, the Caucasus, or the Himalaya.
    keywords: activity; age; alpha; case; chemical; conditions; crust; denudation; earth; effects; energy; fact; find; geological; halo; heat; history; ice; land; life; light; mars; mass; matter; miles; mountain; nature; ocean; organism; past; planet; point; present; pressure; radium; rate; rays; result; rocks; satellite; sediments; surface; temperature; time; uranium; water; weight; work; world; years
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        item: #17 of 102
          id: 16729
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
        date: None
       words: 108942
      flesch: 52
     summary: If this be true, it is clear that the student, in passing from the physico-chemical to the physiological sciences, enters upon a totally new order of facts; and it will next be for us to consider how far these new facts involve _new_ methods, or require a modification of those with which he is already acquainted. Applying the name of the New Philosophy to that estimate of the limits of philosophical inquiry which I, in common with many other men of science, hold to be just, the Archbishop opens his address by identifying this New Philosophy with the Positive Philosophy of M. Comte (of whom he speaks as its founder); and then proceeds to attack that philosopher and his doctrines vigorously.
    keywords: animals; bodies; body; case; chalk; changes; comte; conditions; course; darwin; day; descartes; development; doctrine; doubt; earth; education; end; evidence; existence; existing; fact; force; forms; geological; geology; good; hand; history; human; hypothesis; kind; knowledge; laws; les; life; living; man; matter; means; men; method; mind; modern; nature; new; order; origin; parts; philosophy; phænomena; place; plants; point; power; present; protoplasm; question; reason; result; science; sea; second; sense; series; species; state; structure; study; subject; theory; things; thought; time; use; value; view; water; way; work; world; years
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        item: #18 of 102
          id: 16775
      author: Arago, François
       title: Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men First Series
        date: None
       words: 134608
      flesch: 61
     summary: Can it be said, after this, that great men are not subject to strange weaknesses? It is with great men, as it is with great movements in the arts, we cannot understand them without studying them under various points of view.
    keywords: academy; action; assembly; astronomer; author; bailly; bodies; body; cause; cents; colleague; country; day; days; distance; earth; effect; fact; force; form; fourier; france; french; general; gentlemen; geometer; good; hand; head; heat; herschel; history; house; king; labours; laplace; life; light; man; mayor; means; men; mind; moment; moon; movements; national; nature; new; object; observations; occasion; opinion; order; paris; people; persons; planets; point; power; present; principal; public; question; rays; researches; result; revolution; satellites; saturn; school; science; second; short; stars; state; subject; sun; system; telescope; theory; thing; thought; time; town; vol; vols; way; words; work; world; years
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        item: #19 of 102
          id: 16807
      author: Allen, Grant
       title: Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
        date: None
       words: 113342
      flesch: 54
     summary: At other times pure accident accounts for the presence of a particular species in the mainlands of Britain. At other times they have crystallised in transparent spar, and then they form very beautiful objects, as smooth and polished as the best lapidary could possibly make them.
    keywords: age; ages; air; american; animals; ants; aphides; australia; banana; birds; black; body; british; brown; case; coco; common; country; course; creatures; day; dead; desert; doubt; earth; end; england; english; europe; evolution; example; existence; fact; fall; feet; fish; food; form; fruit; good; great; green; half; hand; hole; honey; human; insects; kind; large; leaves; left; life; lightning; living; long; love; man; matter; means; men; modern; native; nature; new; nut; origin; original; people; period; place; plants; point; present; question; race; red; remains; right; rock; round; salt; savage; sea; sort; species; state; stone; surface; taste; things; time; toad; tropical; use; water; way; white; work; world; years; young
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        item: #20 of 102
          id: 1705
      author: Williams, Henry Smith
       title: A History of Science — Volume 1
        date: None
       words: 85100
      flesch: 58
     summary: This is but running over the list of great men whose discoveries have claimed our attention. Future Events (they say) are pointed at sometimes by their Rising, and sometimes by their Setting, and at other times by their Colour, as may be experienc'd by those that will diligently observe it; sometimes foreshewing Hurricanes, at other times Tempestuous Rains, and then again exceeding Droughts.
    keywords: air; anaxagoras; archimedes; aristarchus; aristotle; b.c; babylonian; bodies; body; centre; century; civilization; conception; course; day; days; development; doctrine; earth; egyptian; fact; greek; hand; hipparchus; history; idea; influence; knowledge; life; man; men; mind; moon; new; number; observation; period; philosopher; place; point; pythagoras; records; science; size; stars; sun; system; theory; things; thought; time; use; water; way; words; work; world; writing; years
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        item: #21 of 102
          id: 1706
      author: Williams, Edward Huntington
       title: A History of Science — Volume 2
        date: None
       words: 81933
      flesch: 55
     summary: This had been the history of other great discoveries; and this will probably be the history of most great discoveries for all time. That the air is sometimes heavy and at other times light is apparent to the senses without scientific apparatus for demonstration.
    keywords: age; air; ball; blood; bodies; body; centre; centuries; century; course; day; discoveries; discovery; distance; earth; electricity; end; experiments; fact; feet; field; force; galileo; glass; gold; great; hand; heart; idea; kepler; knowledge; length; life; light; man; matter; medicine; mercury; moon; motion; nature; new; newton; observations; period; place; planets; science; stars; stone; sun; system; theory; time; tube; use; water; way; weight; work; years
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        item: #22 of 102
          id: 1707
      author: Williams, Henry Smith
       title: A History of Science — Volume 3
        date: None
       words: 84688
      flesch: 51
     summary: Similar experiments were made on many other mornings, the results of which were that the warmth of the internal air exceeded that of the external from eight to eighteen degrees, the temperature of the covered panes would be from one to five degrees less than the uncovered; that the covered were sometimes dewed, while the uncovered were dry; that at other times both were free from moisture; that the outsides of the covered and uncovered panes had similar differences with respect to heat, though not so great as those of the inner surfaces; and that no variation in the quantity of these differences was occasioned by the weather's being cloudy or fair, provided the heat of the internal air exceeded that of the external equally in both of those states of the atmosphere. Until such time, however, these phenomena must feel themselves very grudgingly admitted to the inner circle of meteorology.
    keywords: air; atmosphere; bodies; body; case; century; course; current; day; discovery; doctrine; earth; effect; electricity; energy; ether; experiments; force; form; fossil; globe; heat; hypothesis; idea; land; light; man; mass; matter; modern; motion; nature; new; observations; paper; particles; phenomena; place; present; professor; question; rings; rocks; science; space; species; stars; strata; sun; surface; system; temperature; theory; thought; time; water; way; work; world; years; young
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        item: #23 of 102
          id: 1708
      author: Williams, Edward Huntington
       title: A History of Science — Volume 4
        date: None
       words: 81310
      flesch: 50
     summary: While the study of the fossil remains of the greater quadrupeds is more satisfactory, he writes, by the clear results which it affords, than that of the remains of other animals found in a fossil state, it is also complicated with greater and more numerous difficulties. Its delightful simplicity--which at first sight made it seem neither new nor important--coupled with the marvellous comprehensiveness of its implications, gave it a hold on the imagination, and secured it a hearing where other theories of transmutation of species had been utterly scorned.
    keywords: acid; action; air; animal; atoms; attention; blood; body; brain; case; cell; century; chemical; chemistry; course; darwin; day; discovery; disease; doctrine; elements; experiments; fact; form; general; heat; hunter; hydrogen; idea; knowledge; leaves; life; little; long; man; matter; means; medicine; method; mind; nature; nerve; new; organism; oxygen; parts; pasteur; phlogiston; place; present; process; results; science; species; structure; studies; substance; system; theory; thought; time; tissues; water; way; work; world; years
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        item: #24 of 102
          id: 17882
      author: Davy, Humphry, Sir
       title: Consolations in Travel; or, the Last Days of a Philosopher
        date: None
       words: 54900
      flesch: 47
     summary: The characters of the persons of the dialogue were intended to be ideal, at least in great part such they should be considered by the reader; and, it is to be hoped, that the incidents introduced, as well as the persons, will be viewed only as subordinate and subservient to the sentiments and doctrines. The gradual operations by which they acquire new organs and new powers, corresponding to these organs, till they arrive at full maturity, forcibly strikes the mind with the idea that the powers of life reside in the arrangement by which the organs are produced.
    keywords: air; animals; arts; atmosphere; changes; chemical; earth; existence; faith; form; genius; globe; great; history; human; influence; kind; knowledge; laws; life; light; man; matter; men; mind; nature; new; organs; people; place; power; principle; reason; religion; remains; results; science; society; state; surface; system; time; view; vision; water; world
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        item: #25 of 102
          id: 18217
      author: Various
       title: Chambers's Elementary Science Readers Book I
        date: None
       words: 20366
      flesch: 104
     summary: When Harry heard Dora asking about it, he also put his hand in and took a coffee-bean. It had little old trees on it, you know, and they were cut down and their roots dug out of the ground; and now, look at it!
    keywords: chalk; coal; day; dora; father; green; ground; harry; illustration; know; leaves; little; mother; needles; page; things; wheat; wood
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        item: #26 of 102
          id: 19080
      author: Hubbard, Elbert
       title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
        date: None
       words: 86676
      flesch: 72
     summary: They do me great honor, he said; I am forbidden to converse with great men, but God has ordered for me a procession. The boys remembered the event and wrote of it in their journal, mentioning the kindly pats on their heads and the prophecy that they would grow up and be great men.
    keywords: america; aristotle; astronomy; book; boy; bruno; business; charles; church; college; copernicus; darwin; day; death; doctor; earth; education; england; evolution; fact; father; fiske; friend; galileo; genius; god; good; haeckel; hand; head; heart; herschel; history; home; humboldt; huxley; idea; isaac; john; law; lectures; life; linnæus; little; love; making; man; matter; men; mind; mother; nature; newton; people; place; pope; professor; religion; right; school; science; set; ship; sir; society; species; stars; things; thought; time; truth; tyndall; university; wallace; way; william; work; world; years; young
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        item: #27 of 102
          id: 20417
      author: Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)
       title: The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
        date: None
       words: 108989
      flesch: 67
     summary: To the bacteria of a past generation have been added a multitude of microscopic _animal_ microbes, such as that which causes Sleeping Sickness. Animals, on the other hand, feed at a high chemical level, on the carbohydrates (e.g. starch and sugar), fats, and proteins (e.g. gluten, albumin, casein) which are manufactured by other animals, or to begin with, by plants.
    keywords: age; air; animals; atoms; beginning; behaviour; birds; body; brain; case; cells; colour; course; creatures; day; distance; earth; eggs; electrons; energy; ether; evolution; fact; find; fishes; food; form; hand; heat; history; human; illustration; kind; land; life; light; living; mammals; man; matter; means; men; miles; mind; moon; nature; new; number; particles; period; photo; plants; point; present; professor; race; rays; red; round; science; sea; second; shore; sir; size; stars; sun; surface; system; theory; time; universe; water; waves; way; white; world; years; young
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        item: #28 of 102
          id: 22085
      author: Bose, Jagadis Chandra
       title: Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, His Life and Speeches
        date: None
       words: 57255
      flesch: 61
     summary: PLANT LIFE AND ANIMAL LIFE Next Dr. Bose, in natural sequence to the investigation of the response in 'inorganic' matter commenced 'a prolonged study of the activities of plant life as compared with corresponding functioning of animal life. He brought out, in April 1906, a systematic treatise--The Plant Response as a Means of Physiological Investigation--in which he incorporated the results of his investigations on plant life.
    keywords: action; animal; apparatus; bose; c. bose; conditions; country; day; death; education; effect; electric; footnote; growth; impulse; india; investigation; knowledge; life; light; man; matter; means; men; movements; new; place; plant; plant life; power; researches; response; royal; science; service; sir; society; stimulus; time; university; vol; waves; work; world; years
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        item: #29 of 102
          id: 26139
      author: Ontario. Department of Education
       title: Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study
        date: None
       words: 76988
      flesch: 78
     summary: Plant seeds as in No. 4, except that the box is kept in a dark cupboard. Apply this study to seed planting: Plant seeds of wheat in four pots of soil, No. 1, half an inch deep; No. 2, two inches; No. 3, four inches; No. 4, six inches.
    keywords: air; animals; birds; care; class; colour; eggs; end; field; flowers; following; food; form; garden; good; ground; growth; home; inches; insects; jar; leaves; lesson; life; means; method; nature; nature study; note; number; observations; place; planting; plants; plots; pupils; room; root; sand; school; seeds; set; shape; size; soil; spring; studies; study; teacher; time; trees; use; water; white; wild; winter; wood; work; year
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        item: #30 of 102
          id: 2627
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: On the Method of Zadig Essay #1 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
        date: None
       words: 5794
      flesch: 54
     summary: Happily Zadig is in the position of a great many other philosophers. It is an usual and a commendable practice to preface the discussion of the views of a philosophic thinker by some account of the man and of the circumstances which shaped his life and coloured his way of looking at things; but, though Zadig is cited in one of the most important chapters of Cuvier's greatest work, little is known about him, and that little might perhaps be better authenticated than it is.
    keywords: animal; fact; horse; king; method; nature; queen; time; zadig
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        item: #31 of 102
          id: 2628
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology Essay #2 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
        date: None
       words: 5266
      flesch: 39
     summary: In many groups of the animal kingdom the number of fossil forms already known is as great as that of the existing species. To the obvious objection that many fossils are not altogether similar to their living analogues, differing in substance while agreeing in form, or being mere hollows or impressions, the surfaces of which are figured in the same way as those of animal or vegetable organisms, Steno replies by pointing out the changes which take place in organic remains embedded in the earth, and how their solid substance may be dissolved away entirely, or replaced by mineral matter, until nothing is left of the original but a cast, an impression, or a mere trace of its contours.
    keywords: animals; forms; fossils; palaeontology; present; remains; species; time
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        item: #32 of 102
          id: 2629
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: Lectures on Evolution Essay #3 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
        date: None
       words: 20730
      flesch: 54
     summary: Facts of this kind are undoubtedly fatal to any form of the doctrine of evolution which postulates the supposition that there is an intrinsic necessity, on the part of animal forms which have once come into existence, to undergo continual modification; and they are as distinctly opposed to any view which involves the belief, that such modification may occur, must take place, at the same rate, in all the different types of animal or vegetable life. In the older tertiaries, the places of existing animals and plants are taken by other forms, as numerous and diversified as those which live now in the same localities, but more or less different from them; in the mesozoic rocks, these are replaced by others yet more divergent from modern types; and, in the paleozoic formations, the contrast is still more marked.
    keywords: animals; birds; bones; day; doctrine; evidence; evolution; forms; horse; hypothesis; nature; present; remains; rocks; series; teeth; time
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        item: #33 of 102
          id: 2630
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature Essay #4 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
        date: None
       words: 5882
      flesch: 50
     summary: In the latter case, Mr. Gladstone tells M. Reville that he is wrong on his own authority, to which, in such a matter, all will pay due respect: in the former, he affirms himself to be wholly destitute of that kind of knowledge which carries authority, and his rebuke is administered in the name and by the authority of natural science. Now what I want to make clear is this: that if the terms water-population, air-population, and land-population are understood in the senses here defined, natural science has nothing to say in favour of the proposition that they succeeded one another in the order given by Mr. Gladstone; but that, on the contrary, all the evidence we possess goes to prove that they did not.
    keywords: air; gladstone; land; population; science; time; water
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        item: #34 of 102
          id: 2631
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: Mr. Gladstone and Genesis Essay #5 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
        date: None
       words: 9608
      flesch: 55
     summary: And, therefore, it appears to me desirable that I should preface such observations as I may have to offer upon the cloud of arguments (the relevancy of which to the issue which I had ventured to raise is not always obvious) put forth by Mr. Gladstone in the January number of this review, [1] by an endeavour to make clear to such of our readers as have not had the advantage of a forensic education the present net result of the discussion. In the article on The Dawn of Creation and Worship, it will be remembered that Mr. Gladstone unreservedly commits himself to three propositions.
    keywords: earth; fact; genesis; gladstone; hypothesis; land; matter; order; present; science; things; writer
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        item: #35 of 102
          id: 2632
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science Essay #6 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
        date: None
       words: 9507
      flesch: 51
     summary: The Bampton lecturer in 1859, and the Canon of St. Paul's in 1890, are in full agreement that this history is true, in the sense in which I have defined historical truth. Thus, in view, not, I repeat of the recondite speculations of infidel philosophers, but in the face of the plainest and most commonplace of ascertained physical facts, the story of the Noachian Deluge has no more claim to credit than has that of Deucalion; and whether it was, or was not, suggested by the familiar acquaintance of its originators with the effects of unusually great overflows of the Tigris and Euphrates, it is utterly devoid of historical truth.
    keywords: account; authority; deluge; earth; fact; flood; footnote; history; man; narrative; science; time; truth; water
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        item: #36 of 102
          id: 2633
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: Hasisadra's Adventure Essay #7 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
        date: None
       words: 11903
      flesch: 51
     summary: For the fossil remains imbedded in the strata continuously deposited in the Aralo-Caspian area, since the latter end of the miocene epoch, show no sign that, from that time onward, it has ever been covered by sea water. There is a certain practicality about the notion of taking refuge from floods and storms in a ship provided with a steersman; but, surely, no one who had ever seen more water than he could wade through would dream of facing even a moderate breeze, in a huge three-storied coffer, or box, three hundred cubits long, fifty wide and thirty high, left to drift without rudder or pilot.
    keywords: epoch; euphrates; evidence; feet; flood; hasisadra; jordan; land; level; miles; present; sea; ship; story; time; valley; water; years
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        item: #37 of 102
          id: 2634
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: The Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study Essay #8 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
        date: None
       words: 22410
      flesch: 55
     summary: And, in the course of the history of Israel Jahveh himself thus appears to all sorts of persons, non-Israelites as well as Israelites. They were polytheists, in so far as they admitted the existence of other Elohim of divine rank beside Jahveh; they differed from ordinary polytheists, in so far as they believed that Jahveh was the supreme god and the one proper object of their own national worship.
    keywords: belief; book; death; elohim; evidence; fact; footnote; god; gods; history; image; israelites; jahveh; life; man; men; moses; people; place; priest; samuel; saul; spirit; theology; thought; time; vol; woman; worship
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        item: #38 of 102
          id: 27015
      author: Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir
       title: More Science from an Easy Chair
        date: None
       words: 102236
      flesch: 68
     summary: Pygmy hogs, pygmy deer, pygmy buffaloes (and many other pygmy animals) are known as thriving wild species, so that it seems clear that there are other causes at work than semi-starvation in the production of pygmy races. A most interesting branch of this subject of the unthinking extermination of great animals by man is that of the extermination of whales.
    keywords: 8vo; african; animals; art; birds; blood; body; case; cells; common; crown; crown 8vo; day; days; disease; edition; egg; eggs; elephant; england; europe; existence; fact; fcap; feet; fig; fish; food; form; gallop; great; half; hand; head; history; horse; human; illustrated; indian; jaw; kinds; knowledge; laughter; legs; life; like; living; london; man; matter; meat; men; microbes; modern; moon; museum; nature; net; new; number; old; order; people; period; pictures; plants; present; public; race; regard; right; science; second; sense; series; size; smell; species; specimens; state; stone; sun; surface; teeth; things; time; toad; upper; water; way; whales; white; work; world; years
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        item: #39 of 102
          id: 27076
      author: Griffenhagen, George B.
       title: Drug Supplies in the American Revolution
        date: None
       words: 16078
      flesch: 72
     summary: Some relief came from British prize ships captured by the American navy and privateers, but the chaotic condition of drug supply was not eased until the alliance with France early in 1778. [29] Drug supplies also were quite adequate in Boston during the British occupation.
    keywords: american; army; boston; cit; congress; craigie; drugs; folio; footnote; general; ibid; medical; medicines; morgan; new; pennsylvania; philadelphia; potts; supplies; supply; vol; york
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        item: #40 of 102
          id: 27106
      author: Ferguson, Eugene S.
       title: Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt
        date: None
       words: 21619
      flesch: 63
     summary: _Middle_, Sketch by Robert Willis from his copy of _Principles of Mechanism_ (London, 1841, p. 264), which shews Whitworth dissected into a simpler form; it is as obscure as most subsequent attempts have been to explain this mechanism without a schematic diagram. Artificiose Machine_, Paris, 1588.]
    keywords: cit; crank; design; engine; engineering; figure; footnote; illustration; kinematics; line; linkage; london; machine; mechanical; mechanisms; motion; new; patent; professor; reuleaux; steam; synthesis; time; vol; watt; willis; work; years
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        item: #41 of 102
          id: 27238
      author: Welsh, Peter C.
       title: Woodworking Tools 1600-1900
        date: None
       words: 13280
      flesch: 65
     summary: This English influence on American tool design is no surprise, since as early as 1634 William Wood in _New England's Prospect_ suggested that colonists take to the New World All manner of Ironwares, as all manner of nailes for houses ... The Mechanic's Companion_ (figs. 8, 9, and 10), the all-too-familiar definition of carpentry as the art of employing timber in the construction of buildings suggests very little of the carpenter's actual work or the improvement in tool design that had occurred since Moxon's _Exercises_.
    keywords: 19th; american; bench; brace; carpenter; century; design; english; figure; form; hand; illustration; iron; moxon; new; patent; photo; plane; saw; smithsonian; tools; u.s; wood
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        item: #42 of 102
          id: 27747
      author: Somerville, Mary
       title: Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
        date: None
       words: 89567
      flesch: 69
     summary: Patty Smith and I became great friends, and I knew her sisters; but only remember her niece Florence Nightingale as a very little child. We made expeditions every day; sometimes we went nutting in the forest; at other times we gathered mushrooms on the grass parks of Stewartfield, where there was a wood of picturesque old Scotch firs, inhabited by a colony of rooks.
    keywords: account; age; book; brother; chapter; character; conversation; country; course; daughters; day; days; dear; death; des; dinner; edinburgh; england; english; evening; excellent; fairfax; family; father; florence; following; french; friends; general; good; herschel; home; hours; house; husband; interest; italian; italy; john; kind; ladies; lady; left; les; letter; life; london; long; lord; madame; man; men; miss; morning; mother; mrs; naples; new; night; paris; party; people; place; present; professor; que; return; rome; room; royal; saw; science; sea; sir; society; somerville; son; stars; subject; summer; thought; time; town; visit; vous; water; way; wife; winter; women; work; writing; years; young
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        item: #43 of 102
          id: 27932
      author: Hamarneh, Sami Khalaf
       title: History of the Division of Medical Sciences United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964
        date: None
       words: 12762
      flesch: 53
     summary: FRANK A. TAYLOR _Director, United States National Museum_ Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Proceedings of the United States National Museum_ (1883), vol.
    keywords: american; association; collection; division; drugs; exhibits; health; history; institution; materia; medical; medicine; museum; national; national museum; pharmaceutical; pharmacy; section; smithsonian; states; united; vol; washington
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        item: #44 of 102
          id: 28160
      author: White, John H.
       title: The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964
        date: None
       words: 10093
      flesch: 67
     summary: Pioneer_ cost $6,200 in gold, but is unable to give the source for this information. Pioneer_
    keywords: boiler; cumberland; engine; figure; frame; illustration; iron; locomotive; museum; pioneer; railroad; smith; steam; valley; valve; wheel; wilmarth
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        item: #45 of 102
          id: 28274
      author: Lubbock, John, Sir
       title: The Beauties of Nature, and the Wonders of the World We Live In
        date: None
       words: 68604
      flesch: 69
     summary: Steenstrup has given to these curious phenomena, many other cases of which occur among the lower animals, and to which he first called attention, the name of alternations of generations. SLEEP OF PLANTS Many flowers close their petals during rain; the advantage of which is that it prevents the honey and pollen from being spoilt or washed away.
    keywords: air; alps; animals; away; beauty; blue; cases; chapter; colour; course; dark; day; direction; distance; doubt; earth; eye; fact; feet; fig; flowers; form; green; hairs; illustration; insects; instance; lake; land; leaf; leaves; length; life; light; line; living; man; miles; moon; mountains; nature; north; number; ocean; plants; pollen; power; present; red; rhone; river; round; sea; size; snow; south; species; stars; strata; structure; sun; surface; time; trees; valley; water; white; years
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        item: #46 of 102
          id: 28758
      author: Various
       title: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World
        date: None
       words: 154763
      flesch: 78
     summary: For, though my Quicksilver were with good care cleansed from the Air; yet I find that which Mr. _Boyle_ useth, much better: for, comparing his with mine at the same times, and both in _Oxford_, at no great distance; I find his Quicksilver to stand alwaies somewhat higher than mine (sometimes neer a quarter of an Inch;) which I know now how to give a more probable account off, than that my Quicksilver is either heavier than his; or else, that his is better cleansed from Air, (unless, possibly, the difference of the Bore, or other circumstances of the Tube, may cause the alteration; mine being a taller Tube, and a bigger Bore, than his.) How _Cold_ may be produced in hottest Summers by _Sal Armoniack_, discovered by M. _Boyle_, 15. 255.
    keywords: account; air; author; blood; bodies; body; book; boyle; cause; cold; comet; day; distance; doth; earth; end; england; experiments; eye; figure; fire; foot; glass; glasses; good; ground; half; hath; head; high; hours; hypothesis; inches; jupiter; kind; length; letter; light; like; line; long; making; manner; march; matter; means; men; mercury; mines; monsieur; moon; motion; nature; new; notice; observations; occasion; ones; ore; particulars; parts; place; proportion; reason; relation; royal; saith; salt; sea; second; self; society; spring; stone; sun; things; thought; tides; time; tis; use; water; way; weather; weight; whereof; years
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        item: #47 of 102
          id: 29285
      author: Chapelle, Howard Irving
       title: The Migrations of an American Boat Type
        date: None
       words: 7245
      flesch: 74
     summary: [Illustration: FIGURE 2.--A New Haven sharpie and dugouts on the Quinnipiac River, New Haven, Connecticut, about the turn of the century.] The structure of New Haven sharpies was strong and rather heavy, consisting of white pine plank and oak framing.
    keywords: bay; boat; carolina; feet; figure; haven; illustration; inches; new; sharpie; stern
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        item: #48 of 102
          id: 2932
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals
        date: None
       words: 20365
      flesch: 47
     summary: Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that Man is, in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for, he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech, whereby, in the secular period of his existence, he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of every individual life in other animals; so that now he stands raised upon it as on a mountain top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth. It has not yet been possible (and only by some rare chance can it ever be possible) to study the human ovum in so early a developmental stage as that of yelk division, but there is every reason to conclude that the changes it undergoes are identical with those exhibited by the ova of other vertebrated animals; for the formative materials of which the rudimentary human body is composed, in the earliest conditions in which it has been observed, are the same as those of other animals.
    keywords: animals; apes; bones; brain; cerebral; chimpanzee; cornu; development; differences; dog; fig; foot; form; gorilla; hand; human; man; order; owen; professor; skull; structure; world
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        item: #49 of 102
          id: 2933
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: On Some Fossil Remains of Man
        date: None
       words: 11805
      flesch: 55
     summary: And yet, as we have seen, it is more in this respect than any other, that human skulls vary, towards and from, the brutal type--the brain case of an average dolichocephalic European differing far less from that of a Negro, for example, than his jaws do. [10] Some time after the publication of the translation of Professor Schaaffhausen's Memoir, I was led to study the cast of the Neanderthal cranium with more attention than I had previously bestowed upon it, in consequence of wishing to supply Sir Charles Lyell with a diagram, exhibiting the special peculiarities of this skull, as compared with other human skulls.
    keywords: angle; axis; bones; cranium; fig; form; fossil; human; length; line; neanderthal; occipital; remains; skull
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        item: #50 of 102
          id: 2934
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge
        date: None
       words: 5691
      flesch: 43
     summary: And, further, it would be necessary to add, that although severe fires sometimes occur and inflict great damage, the loss is very generally compensated by societies, the operations of which have been rendered possible only by the progress of natural knowledge in the direction of mathematics, and the accumulation of wealth in virtue of other natural knowledge. If these ideas be destined, as I believe they are, to be more and more firmly established as the world grows older; if that spirit be fated, as I believe it is, to extend itself into all departments of human thought, and to become co-extensive with the range of knowledge; if, as our race approaches its maturity, it discovers, as I believe it will, that there is but one kind of knowledge and but one method of acquiring it; then we, who are still children, may justly feel it our highest duty to recognise the advisableness of improving natural knowledge, and so to aid ourselves and our successors in their course towards the noble goal which lies before mankind.
    keywords: fire; improvement; knowledge; london; man; nature; plague; society; time; universe
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        item: #51 of 102
          id: 2935
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: On the Study of Zoology
        date: None
       words: 8105
      flesch: 50
     summary: But other animals, though they may differ a good deal from the lobster, are yet either very like it, or are like something that is like it. If I had worked my way from a sponge instead of a lobster, I should have found it associated, by like ties, with a great number of other animals into the sub-kingdom 'Protozoa'; if I had selected a fresh-water polype or a coral, the members of what naturalists term the sub-kingdom 'Coelenterata', would have grouped themselves around my type; had a snail been chosen, the inhabitants of all univalve and bivalve, land and water, shells, the lamp shells, the squids, and the sea-mat would have gradually linked themselves on to it as members of the same sub-kingdom of 'Mollusca'; and finally, starting from man, I should have been compelled to admit first, the ape, the rat, the horse, the dog, into the same class; and then the bird, the crocodile, the turtle, the frog, and the fish, into the same sub-kingdom of 'Vertebrata'.
    keywords: animal; appendages; education; facts; knowledge; lobster; parts; plan; science; student
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        item: #52 of 102
          id: 29633
      author: Bishop, Philip W.
       title: The Beginnings of Cheap Steel
        date: None
       words: 15297
      flesch: 63
     summary: Whether or not Bessemer is entitled to claim priority of invention, one can but agree with the ironmaster who said:[6] Mr. Bessemer has raised such a spirit of enquiry throughout ... the land as must lead to an improved system of manufacture. _Such a purifying vessel Mr. Bessemer has delineated in one of his patents.
    keywords: american; bessemer; bessemer process; british; ebbw; furnace; iron; journal; kelly; martien; metal; mining; mushet; patent; process; steel; vale; vol
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        item: #53 of 102
          id: 29653
      author: Berkebile, Donald H.
       title: Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755
        date: None
       words: 5932
      flesch: 76
     summary: Farm wagons are somewhat smaller than road wagons, generally bear less ornamentation and lack the more graceful lines of the latter. The number of Pennsylvania wagons that arrived back at Wills Creek has not been definitely established.
    keywords: braddock; conestoga; end; expedition; figure; footnote; horses; ibid; pennsylvania; wagons
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        item: #54 of 102
          id: 29838
      author: Washburne, Carleton
       title: Common Science
        date: None
       words: 100774
      flesch: 85
     summary: You wash dishes in _hot_ water. SECTION 51. That is why you soak your hands in _warm_ water before manicuring your nails.
    keywords: acid; air; application; bottle; carbon; change; chemical; cold; copper; earth; electricity; end; experiment; fig; fire; flame; following; force; form; gas; glass; hand; heat; hold; hot; hydrogen; illustration; iron; lamp; light; long; making; oxygen; paper; piece; place; pull; salt; section; soda; sun; test; things; time; tube; turn; use; water; water vapor; way; wire; world
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        item: #55 of 102
          id: 29934
      author: Battison, Edwin A.
       title: The Auburndale Watch Company First American Attempt Toward the Dollar Watch
        date: None
       words: 10648
      flesch: 67
     summary: The only way to avoid special gearing would be to revolve the barrel and train each hour so that the minute hand could travel with them as it travels with the center wheel in conventional watches. Those with watchmaking experience who were brought into this new organization unquestionably did their best, based on past experience confined to conventional watches of much higher grade.
    keywords: auburndale; balance; co.; dial; escapement; figure; fowle; hopkins; illustration; patent; rotary; second; time; watch; watches; wheel; william
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        item: #56 of 102
          id: 30055
      author: Berkebile, Donald H.
       title: The 1893 Duryea Automobile In the Museum of History and Technology
        date: None
       words: 13631
      flesch: 69
     summary: [19] Letter from Frank Duryea to Charles Duryea, November 3, 1893, states that the engine could be run at 700 as well as 500 rpm. [21] Letter from Charles Duryea to C. W. Mitman, January 11, 1922; also letter from Frank Duryea to David Beecroft, November 15, 1924.
    keywords: axle; carriage; charles; charles duryea; company; duryea; end; engine; exhaust; figure; flywheel; frank; frank duryea; gear; illustration; museum; piston; shaft; valve; vehicle; work
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        item: #57 of 102
          id: 30112
      author: Newville, Leslie J.
       title: Development of the Phonograph at Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, United States National Museum Bulletin 218, Paper 5, (pages 69-79)
        date: None
       words: 4312
      flesch: 62
     summary: Reproducing and A. G. Bell, recording sounds by C. A. Bell, radiant energy C. S. Tainter 341214 1886 Recording and reproducing C. A. Bell, speech and other sounds C. S. Tainter 341287 1886 Recording and reproducing C. S. Tainter sounds 341288 1886 Apparatus for recording C. S. Tainter and reproducing sounds 374133 1887 Paper cylinder for C. S. Tainter graphophonic records 375579 1887 Apparatus for recording C. S. Tainter and reproducing speech and other sounds 380535 1888 Graphophone C. S. Tainter 385886 1888 Graphophone C. S. Tainter 385887 1888 Graphophonic tablet C. S. Tainter 388462 1888 Machine for making C. S. Tainter paper tubes 392763 1888 [Figure 4.--PATENT DRAWINGS from U. S. patent 341214, granted May 4, 1886, to Chichester Bell and C. S. Tainter.]
    keywords: bell; edison; graphophone; patent; phonograph; recording; tainter
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        item: #58 of 102
          id: 30495
      author: Williams, Edward Huntington
       title: A History of Science — Volume 5
        date: None
       words: 74590
      flesch: 60
     summary: On the contrary, each little whiff of gas has been subjected to a variety of experiments--made to pass through torturing-tubes under varying conditions of temperature, and brought purposely in contact with various other substances, that its physical and chemical properties might be tested. It is a boon to naturalists everywhere that the institution here is able sometimes to supply other laboratories less favorably situated with duplicates from its wealth of beautifully preserved specimens. METHODS AND RESULTS These, then, are some of the material conditions that have contributed to make the results of the scientific investigations at the Naples laboratory notable.
    keywords: -the; air; atom; building; case; cell; century; chemical; conditions; course; day; discovery; earth; electricity; energy; example; experiments; fact; field; form; gas; gases; general; german; haeckel; hand; heat; history; human; institute; institution; interest; laboratory; life; light; liquid; living; london; man; matter; means; museum; nature; new; paris; particles; phenomena; place; point; present; problems; professor; question; radio; radium; room; royal; science; society; studies; study; subject; substance; sun; temperature; theory; time; trans; vol; water; way; work; world; years
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        item: #59 of 102
          id: 31756
      author: Battison, Edwin A.
       title: Screw-Thread Cutting by the Master-Screw Method since 1480
        date: None
       words: 5618
      flesch: 59
     summary: While this does have a ratio in the pair of gears connecting the work spindle and master screw, it is clear from the patent that various pitches are to be obtained by changing screws, not by changing gears. The increasing refinements demanded in scientific instruments and in machine tools themselves after they had reached a relatively stable form dictated that attention be dedicated to improved accuracy of the threaded components.
    keywords: cutting; figure; illustration; lead; machine; master; screw; spindle; tool; work
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        item: #60 of 102
          id: 32282
      author: Vogel, Robert M.
       title: Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889
        date: None
       words: 13806
      flesch: 58
     summary: [Illustration: Figure 24.--General arrangement of Otis elevator system in Eiffel Tower. Significant use of electricity in this field occurred somewhat later, and in a manner parallel to that by which steam was first applied to the elevator--the driving of mechanical (belt driven) elevator machines by individual motors.
    keywords: cables; car; design; eiffel; eiffel tower; elevator; feet; figure; hydraulic; illustration; otis; paris; platform; rope; safety; system; time; tower; water
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        item: #61 of 102
          id: 32482
      author: Multhauf, Robert P.
       title: The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments
        date: None
       words: 8178
      flesch: 51
     summary: Meteorological instruments have been for the most part treated like toys, and much time and labor have been lost in making and recording observations utterly useless for any scientific purpose. By 1900 these simple and inexpensive instruments had relegated to the scrap pile, unfortunately literally, the elegant products of the mass attack of observatory directors in the 1860's on the problem of the self-registering thermometer and barometer.[34] Conclusions In view of the rarity of special studies on the history of meteorological instruments, it is impossible to claim that this brief review has neglected no important instruments, and conclusions as to the lineage of the late 19th century instruments can only be tentatively drawn.
    keywords: barometer; century; clock; gauge; hooke; instruments; meteorology; observation; observatory; registering; self; thermometer; time; weather; wind
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        item: #62 of 102
          id: 32492
      author: Unknown
       title: Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works.
        date: None
       words: 78647
      flesch: 74
     summary: A beautiful method of expressing geometrical figures with the above powder, is to bend small glass tubes, of about the tenth part of an inch diameter, in the shape of the figure desired, and then to fill them with the phosphoric powder. An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building, from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction, straight or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent its striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building.
    keywords: 8vo; air; box; card; cases; cloth; cut; diameter; distance; draw; end; fire; fix; glass; half; hand; hole; inches; iron; light; manner; middle; number; pack; paper; parts; person; piece; place; powder; rockets; round; second; sun; table; time; tube; vol; water; wheel; wood; works; | |
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        item: #63 of 102
          id: 33198
      author: Bedini, Silvio A.
       title: The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35
        date: None
       words: 22727
      flesch: 63
     summary: Finally, in the second half of the 17th century, some attempt was made to construct mechanical clocks combined with sundials as well as astronomical clocks. The fourth of the ecclesiasts who designed astronomical clocks in this period was Father Klein of Prague, who produced a complicated astronomical timepiece in about 1738.
    keywords: bertolla; borghesi; center; circle; clock; days; della; dial; earth; eclipse; father; father borghesi; figure; history; hours; illustration; index; left; lunar; moon; museum; new; plate; right; second; sun; time; work; year
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        item: #64 of 102
          id: 33405
      author: Gray, Elisha
       title: Familiar Talks on Science: World-Building and Life; Earth, Air and Water.
        date: None
       words: 57144
      flesch: 68
     summary: Great rivers often change their courses, especially where they flow through a region of made earth, such as is the case with the lower Mississippi River, and in other great rivers of the world. There are many other great glaciers in the mountains of the Pacific coast.
    keywords: air; area; atmosphere; cloud; coal; conditions; day; degrees; direction; earth; energy; fact; form; great; heat; ice; lake; land; life; miles; moisture; nature; north; ocean; period; point; pressure; process; regions; river; salt; sea; sun; surface; temperature; time; water; wind
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        item: #65 of 102
          id: 33899
      author: Wright, Russell Stuart
       title: Optical Projection. Part 1: The Projection of Lantern Slides
        date: None
       words: 24607
      flesch: 61
     summary: In the earlier editions of this work both A and B were dealt with in the same volume, but, as there are thousands who require to use a lantern for the demonstration of lantern slides only, and who have no interest or concern with Science Projection, it has seemed to the writer that the work might, with advantage, be divided into two portions, Vol. I. dealing with slides only, and Vol. II. While dealing with 'Special' lantern bodies, we should perhaps just mention here the numerous pattern lanterns made for the demonstration both of lantern slides and of Scientific Phenomena, such as the projection of insect life or other microscopic objects, polarised light experiments, electrical apparatus, opaque objects, &c. A detailed description of these lanterns and how to use them belongs to the second part of this work, as also does the popular cinematograph; but educational institutes, and even boys' clubs, when considering the purchase of a lantern, might well reflect whether it would be advisable to spend a little more money in the acquisition of an instrument which can be utilised for a variety of purposes.
    keywords: acetylene; arc; case; current; cylinder; fig; focus; gas; illustration; jet; lamp; lantern; lens; light; oxygen; pressure; screen; slide; use; work
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        item: #66 of 102
          id: 34061
      author: Chipman, Robert A.
       title: The Earliest Electromagnetic Instruments
        date: None
       words: 9634
      flesch: 50
     summary: [Illustration: Figure 4.--SCHWEIGGER MADE THIS peculiar construction of wire coils, wound endwise on a short vertical section of glass tubing with a compass needle inside, merely to startle his Halle audience with the fact that the compass needle could rest in any of several stable positions. In the succeeding few years, Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution frequently, in his public lectures, showed wires glowing from electric current.
    keywords: circuit; compass; cumming; effect; electricity; figure; magnetic; multiplier; museum; needle; oersted; paper; poggendorf; schweigger; voltaic; wire
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        item: #67 of 102
          id: 34067
      author: Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
       title: Catholic Churchmen in Science [First Series] Sketches of the Lives of Catholic Ecclesiastics Who Were Among the Great Founders in Science
        date: None
       words: 51722
      flesch: 50
     summary: He listened to this without any impatience, and she said it a number of other times, half jokingly perhaps, but much more than half in earnest. During the Thirty Years' War, however, the invasion of Germany very seriously disturbed university work, and finally in 1631 Father Kircher was sent by his superiors to Avignon in South France, where he continued his teaching some four years, attracting no little attention by his wide interest in many sciences and by various scientific works that showed him to be a man of very broad genius.
    keywords: attention; basil; beginning; book; centuries; century; character; church; college; copernicus; day; discoveries; discovery; earth; england; english; fact; father; footnote; good; haüy; history; kircher; knowledge; life; linacre; man; matter; medical; medicine; mendel; modern; new; number; observations; order; professor; regard; science; stensen; studies; study; thought; time; truth; university; valentine; work; years
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        item: #68 of 102
          id: 34221
      author: Gray, Elisha
       title: Electricity and Magnetism
        date: None
       words: 54420
      flesch: 66
     summary: Notwithstanding its universal use it is not free from serious difficulties in transmission unless it is repeated back to the sender for correction; and then in some cases it is impossible to be sure, owing to difficulties of punctuation and capitalizing, and the further difficulty of running the signals together, caused, it may be, by faulty transmission, induced currents from other wires, swinging crosses or atmospheric electricity. In the early days of telephony great difficulty was experienced in using a single wire grounded at each end in the ordinary way, if it ran near other wires that were in active use.
    keywords: air; battery; chapter; circuit; current; distance; earth; electricity; end; energy; ether; force; form; heat; iron; light; line; magnet; magnetic; man; message; morse; needle; point; power; resistance; system; telegraph; telephone; time; transmission; use; water; way; wire; work; years
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        item: #69 of 102
          id: 34698
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions
        date: None
       words: 173747
      flesch: 55
     summary: Unquestionably, to the poetic artist, or even to the student of psychology, _Hamlet_ and _Macbeth_ may be better instructors than all the books of a wilderness of professors of æsthetics or of moral philosophy. On the lowest grounds on which our Lord and His Apostles can be placed they must, at least, be regarded as _honest_ men.
    keywords: account; ancient; animals; argyll; authority; belief; body; case; century; certain; character; christian; christianity; church; conclusion; contrary; course; criticism; day; doctrine; doubt; duke; earth; eginhard; elohim; end; evidence; evolution; existence; fact; faith; force; form; gadara; general; genesis; gladstone; god; gods; good; gospel; ground; hand; having; history; human; jahveh; jesus; jews; judgment; know; knowledge; land; law; laws; life; living; lord; man; matter; means; men; mind; miracles; nature; new; opinion; order; origin; paul; people; philosophy; physical; place; point; population; position; present; professor; question; reason; remains; respect; right; samuel; saul; science; sea; second; sense; set; statement; subject; theology; theory; things; thought; time; truth; use; value; view; wace; water; way; words; work; world; worship; writer; years
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        item: #70 of 102
          id: 34771
      author: Gore, George
       title: The Scientific Basis of National Progress, Including that of Morality
        date: None
       words: 54588
      flesch: 46
     summary: Some of the large brewers, chemical manufacturers, candle companies, and many others, constantly employ scientific men in this way to examine their materials, processes and products, and keep them acquainted with the progress of discovery and invention in relation to their own particular trades. It is true that many theories have been invented and entertained for a while in the minds of scientific men, and have then passed away, but we must remember that these are only the scaffolding of science, and no part of its real fabric.
    keywords: action; causes; chemical; conditions; country; discoveries; discovery; general; human; ideas; influence; invention; knowledge; labour; man; mankind; matter; means; men; mind; money; nation; nature; new; number; persons; phenomena; power; present; principles; processes; progress; research; results; science; state; subject; time; truth; value
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        item: #71 of 102
          id: 34912
      author: Zahm, J. A. (John Augustine)
       title: Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind
        date: None
       words: 150144
      flesch: 60
     summary: We cannot conceive for a moment that Greece's fertility in great men and barrenness in great women was due to the fact that the mothers of such illustrious men were ordinary housewives and entirely devoid of the talent and genius which gave immortality to their distinguished sons. Then, too, there are many women who occupy important positions as professors or assistant professors in our colleges and universities.
    keywords: academy; achievements; age; ages; agnesi; ancient; anna; art; aspasia; astronomy; attainments; attention; author; body; bologna; book; brain; capacity; case; centuries; century; character; chemistry; châtelet; college; country; culture; curie; daughter; day; days; death; degree; des; difference; discoveries; distinction; education; eminent; england; english; europe; fact; fame; father; female; following; footnote; france; french; friend; general; genius; germany; good; great; greece; greek; half; herschel; history; home; honor; husband; hypatia; influence; intellectual; intelligence; interest; italian; italy; john; kind; knowledge; lady; latin; law; learning; letters; life; literature; london; love; making; man; maria; mary; mathematics; matter; medical; medicine; middle; mind; miss; mme; modern; mother; mrs; nature; new; number; opinion; order; paris; people; period; philosophy; physician; place; plato; position; power; practice; present; professor; public; question; reason; renaissance; roman; rome; royal; salerno; scholars; school; science; sex; sir; sister; society; somerville; states; students; studies; study; subject; success; talent; things; thought; time; united; universities; university; value; view; way; weight; wife; women; words; work; world; writer; writing; years; york; young
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        item: #72 of 102
          id: 35024
      author: Multhauf, Robert P.
       title: Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Papers 34-44 On Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 1966
        date: None
       words: 24085
      flesch: 54
     summary: The history of gravity pendulums dates back to the time of Galileo. The history of gravity pendulums begins with the ball or simple pendulum of Galileo as an approximation to the ideal simple pendulum.
    keywords: bessel; bessel pendulum; coast; compound pendulum; determinations; earth; figure; flexure; geodetic; gravity; invariable; kater; knife; length; method; observations; paris; peirce; pendulum; pendulum apparatus; repsold; seconds pendulum; survey; swing; time; u.s; value; vol; washington
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        item: #73 of 102
          id: 35489
      author: Bolton, Sarah Knowles
       title: Famous Men of Science
        date: None
       words: 107565
      flesch: 70
     summary: FAMOUS MEN OF SCIENCE BY SARAH K. BOLTON AUTHOR OF POOR BOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS, GIRLS WHO BECAME FAMOUS, FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS, FAMOUS AMERICAN STATESMEN, SOCIAL STUDIES IN ENGLAND, STORIES FROM LIFE, FROM HEART AND NATURE, ETC. _SEVENTH THOUSAND_ The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Tenderness to animals seems to be a striking characteristic of great men and women.
    keywords: agassiz; age; america; animals; audubon; birds; book; boy; brother; buckland; children; college; country; course; cuvier; darwin; day; days; dear; death; dollars; earth; england; family; father; feet; friend; galileo; good; great; half; head; heart; henry; herschel; history; home; honor; hours; house; humboldt; john; knowledge; lectures; left; life; like; london; love; lyell; making; man; men; mind; money; months; morse; mother; nature; new; newton; night; place; plants; power; professor; return; room; royal; school; science; scientific; second; sir; society; son; study; things; thought; time; university; water; way; wife; william; woman; work; world; years; young
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        item: #74 of 102
          id: 35584
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley
        date: None
       words: 53982
      flesch: 60
     summary: CCXC All this is mere justice to Goethe; but, as it is the unpleasant duty of the historian to do justice upon, as well as to, great men, it behoves me to add that the germs of the worst faults of later speculative morphologists are no less visible in his writings than their great merits. But there are other men who attain greatness because they embody the potentiality of their own day, and magically reflect the future.
    keywords: ---and; ---the; action; animal; body; capital; child; conditions; day; doctrine; doubt; education; energy; evolution; existence; fact; force; form; good; history; human; iii; intellectual; knowledge; labour; life; living; man; mankind; matter; means; men; mind; modern; nature; new; order; people; place; present; process; question; reason; right; science; sea; self; sense; society; state; struggle; things; thought; time; truth; value; viii; way; work; world; years
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        item: #75 of 102
          id: 36343
      author: Warder, Geo. W. (George Woodward)
       title: The Universe a Vast Electric Organism
        date: None
       words: 82790
      flesch: 61
     summary: Man is the most perfect enfoldment of nature's electric laws, and the world and the universe are the universal expression of electric life and energy. Then it imparts electric energy to the blood and sends it as an electric current and fluid coursing through every part of the body, producing vitalizing life and growth, causing the heart valves to beat and pump with marvelous power, the pulse to throb, and the whole machine to pulsate, thrill and whir with electric life and energy.
    keywords: air; animal; animal life; atmosphere; atoms; attraction; bodies; body; creation; currents; deity; earth; electric; electricity; electro; elements; energy; evolution; force; form; god; heat; human; law; laws; life; life energy; light; living; love; magnetic; man; matter; miles; mind; motion; nature; new; organism; physical; planets; power; prof; science; scientists; soul; space; spirit; substance; sun; suns; surface; theory; things; thought; time; truth; universe; world; years
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        item: #76 of 102
          id: 36457
      author: Zambra, Joseph
       title: A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility
        date: None
       words: 70663
      flesch: 64
     summary: | | 28 | ·992 || 53 | 1·043 || 78 | 1·094 | | 29 | ·994 || 54 | 1·045 || 79 | 1·096 | | 30 | ·996 || 55 | 1·047 || 80 | 1·098 | | 31
    keywords: = =; air; barometer; barometer tube; boiling; brass; bulb; cistern; column; cylinder; ditto; end; fall; fig; glass; glass tube; heat; height; illustration; inches; index; instrument; mercury; n. |; negretti; observations; point; pressure; rain; scale; sea; surface; table; temperature; thermometer; time; tube; use; w. |; water; weather; wind; zambra; | +; | |; ° |
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        item: #77 of 102
          id: 36547
      author: Phin, John
       title: The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. To which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions, and marvels
        date: None
       words: 47600
      flesch: 58
     summary: Sometimes we see it explained as the drawing of a square inside a circle and at other times as the drawing of a square around a circle, but both these problems are amongst the very simplest in practical geometry, the solutions being given in the sixth and seventh propositions of the Fourth Book of Euclid. Between the hours of six in the morning and six in the evening the angle between the hour and XII, which must be bisected is less than 180 degrees, but at other times the angle to be bisected is greater than 180 degrees; or perhaps it is simpler to say that at other times the rule gives the north point and not the south point.
    keywords: case; circle; circumference; diameter; fact; fig; following; form; gold; half; hand; idea; illustration; inch; kind; lines; little; machine; means; men; mercury; motion; new; number; point; power; present; problem; regard; round; sense; sir; space; square; time; use; water; way; weight; wheel; work; years
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        item: #78 of 102
          id: 37224
      author: Bernstein, Aaron David
       title: Popular Books on Natural Science For Practical Use in Every Household, for Readers of All Classes
        date: None
       words: 38783
      flesch: 70
     summary: Pease sometimes may boil by the hour without getting soft; it happens even that young pease, soft by nature, become harder and harder by boiling; while, at other times, the same pease have become soft and burst open after but half an hour's cooking. This, however, is not possible; for the earth is so large a mass, and has consequently so great an attractive power, that it draws down to itself all objects which we may wish other bodies to attract.
    keywords: air; blood; body; chapter; coffee; cold; day; digestion; distance; earth; fat; food; heat; light; man; means; meat; milk; nature; stomach; sugar; sun; time; water; weather
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        item: #79 of 102
          id: 37427
      author: Cooke, Josiah P., Jr. (Josiah Parsons)
       title: Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions
        date: None
       words: 68549
      flesch: 51
     summary: Like other great men, Graham built better than he knew. You know that there is a life lived in communion with the thoughts of great men or with the thoughts of God as we can read them in Nature and Revelation, which is purer and nobler than a life of money-making or political intrigue, and I would that I could so bring you to appreciate not only the nobility, but also the happiness, of such a life as to induce you to try to live it.
    keywords: acid; air; chemical; chemistry; college; conditions; course; culture; dumas; education; experiments; facts; gas; hydrogen; knowledge; life; man; means; men; methods; molecules; motion; nature; new; order; phenomena; physical; place; power; present; professor; results; rogers; schools; science; scientific; student; study; subject; system; teacher; teaching; theory; time; university; value; water; way; work; world; years
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        item: #80 of 102
          id: 37513
      author: Morgan, C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd)
       title: Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913
        date: None
       words: 16252
      flesch: 64
     summary: It may be said that when we come down to the atom the _things in_ relation are electrical, are electrons, are positive and negative charges. How can mere relatedness as such _do_ anything?
    keywords: cause; change; chemical; evolution; force; philosophy; physico; relatedness; science; sense; spencer; system; terms; world
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        item: #81 of 102
          id: 37589
      author: Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton)
       title: Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science
        date: None
       words: 61596
      flesch: 74
     summary: And what is still more interesting, they grew exactly to the same stages as in the natural rock, which is composed of _crystals_ of leucite and _microliths_ of the two other minerals. You will see that it is composed of a number of oval-shaped cells packed closely together (_c_ Fig. 33), with a few long narrow ones _mr_ in the middle of the leaf forming the midrib.
    keywords: cells; crater; dark; day; earth; eye; face; fig; form; glass; green; horse; illustration; image; lava; lens; life; light; lines; living; look; microscope; miles; minute; moon; moss; new; object; piece; plants; rays; red; round; spectroscope; spectrum; spores; stars; sun; telescope; time; water; way; white; wild; work
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        item: #82 of 102
          id: 38097
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley
        date: None
       words: 48082
      flesch: 55
     summary: CCXC All this is mere justice to Goethe; but, as it is the unpleasant duty of the historian to do justice upon, as well as to, great men, it behoves me to add that the germs of the worst faults of later ioeculative morphologists are no less visible in his writings than their great merits. But there are other men who attain greatness because they embody the potentiality of their own day and magically reflect the future.
    keywords: action; animal; body; capital; conditions; day; doctrine; education; energy; existence; fact; force; form; good; history; intellectual; knowledge; labour; life; living; man; mankind; matter; means; men; mind; nature; new; order; people; place; present; process; reason; right; science; sea; self; sense; society; state; struggle; things; thought; time; truth; way; work; world; years
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        item: #83 of 102
          id: 38379
      author: Carlile, Richard
       title: An Address to Men of Science Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth....
        date: None
       words: 16000
      flesch: 51
     summary: If he shrinks from this he is a coward--a slave to the opinions, of other men. Such men have been most aptly termed spouters of froth.
    keywords: = =; chemistry; knowledge; man; mankind; matter; men; mind; nature; newton; present; science; superstition; system; time; truth
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        item: #84 of 102
          id: 38456
      author: Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von
       title: Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy.
        date: None
       words: 142175
      flesch: 56
     summary: Until all these have been repaid by the improvement in the rent or productive powers of the land, they must remain, as working out their emancipation from the lord of the soil, veritable _adscripti glebæ_. This seems to be a proof that German (_i. e._ Bohemian) glass articles have been patronized before the Belgian, and lost the market only through the importation of the latter.
    keywords: africa; air; america; appearance; attention; austrian; basin; bay; black; board; boat; brazil; brazilian; british; cape; captain; ceylon; cingalese; city; coast; colony; consequence; country; course; crater; cultivation; current; day; days; direction; distance; east; end; english; european; expedition; feet; fish; following; footnote; frigate; general; german; gibraltar; good; government; ground; half; hand; height; history; hope; hours; house; illustration; indian; inhabitants; interest; interior; island; kind; leaves; left; length; life; line; long; madeira; madras; man; means; members; miles; morning; mountain; natives; nature; near; new; night; north; novara; number; observations; ocean; order; paul; people; period; place; point; portion; present; quantity; return; rio; rock; sea; season; second; set; ship; shore; singular; soil; south; spot; state; stay; surface; temperature; temple; time; town; trade; tree; view; visit; volcano; volcanoes; voyage; war; water; way; weather; west; white; wind; work; world; years
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        item: #85 of 102
          id: 38462
      author: Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von
       title: Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy.
        date: None
       words: 174279
      flesch: 55
     summary: _be_ _ke_ _de_ a. _re_ _ge_ _ñge_ _he_ _ For example, if it was wished to know the word in their language which expressed _blue_, and in order to make more intelligible what was required, a variety of objects of a blue colour were pointed out, they almost invariably named the object itself, and not the colour.
    keywords: appearance; archipelago; articles; attention; batavia; black; board; boat; canton; captain; chief; children; china; chinese; city; close; coast; cocoa; commerce; consequence; coral; country; course; cultivation; day; days; distance; east; english; european; expedition; feet; following; foot; foreign; forest; form; free; frigate; fruit; general; german; good; government; green; group; half; hand; harbour; having; head; height; history; hong; house; huts; immense; inhabitants; interest; interior; island; java; javanese; kong; language; lbs; leaves; left; length; life; light; long; malay; manila; manner; means; miles; morning; natives; nature; new; nicobar; north; number; nut; objects; opium; order; palm; people; period; place; plant; point; population; present; return; river; round; sea; season; set; shanghai; ship; shore; silk; singapore; soil; sort; south; spanish; species; spot; state; stay; tea; till; time; tobacco; trade; trees; use; view; visit; voyage; water; way; white; wind; work; world; years
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        item: #86 of 102
          id: 38478
      author: Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von
       title: Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy.
        date: None
       words: 154988
      flesch: 56
     summary: | islands of Nangkauri, | Penáng, 5° 25' N., | | natives | nang | itiéi | -- eye | mat | oal-mát | mattá eyebrows | -- | ok-mát | -- nose | elmé | moáh | idóng nostrils | -- | ol-moáh | lo-bang-idong chin | -- | enkóin | dagóo cheek | -- | tapóah | pípi breast | -- | alendája | dáda throat, larynx | -- | ungnóka | kronkóugan calf of the leg | -- | kanmoána | jantong-bóotis mouth | minú | manóing | mulót tongue | litág | kaletág | lidá tooth | kanáp | kanáp | jijée beard | máin-kóoa | inhóing | boolo-báo neck | likún | unlóngha | tinkó arm | kel | koál | langán hand | koontée | oktái | tangán palm of the hand | -- | oal-tái | -- finger | heng | kani-tái | charée nail | kiusó | kaischúa | kookóo body or trunk | aláha | okáha | badán belly | áik | wuiáng | baróot navel | -- | fon | boosát thigh | kaldrán | booló | pahá foot | eldrán | lah | tapa-kakí toes | kundrán | kanéch-lah _or_ | daloognoo-kakí | | ok lah | bone | tangáe | ung-éjing | tooláng skin | -- | ihé | kooléet knee | -- | kohanoáng | lutót heart | faniéoola | kióyen | hangát blood | mahám | wooáh | dará village | panám | mattái | kampong chief | máh | oomiáh-mattái | capitan, capitan-kampong warrior | hol | -- | toomóh friend | moowée | jól | bái, bánia-bái friendship | hóldra | -- | -- house, hut | patée | njee | roomá kettle | tzitóom | poonhágua | balanga, panél arrow | alindreng | bel | ana-paná bow | lindreng | donna | paná axe, hatchet | hanyeng | enlóin | kapá flint | -- | hindél | sanapáng cannon | -- | hin-wáu | mariám shot | -- | hadéel | pasang-bóodeel knife | sooréeta | kahánáp | pisóh canoe, or boat | ap | dëuá | sampán rudder | -- | duende-dol-deüá | -- shoe | kundróka | zapatos | kasút, supátu | | (corruption of | | | Portuguese) | bread | pekó | puáng | roti | | (Portuguese, pan) | pipe, whistle | rípa | tanóp | hundchúe to smoke | -- | top-oomhói | asap tobacco | tobacco | oomhói | tumbáko bamboo tobacco-box | ooráng | -- | -- heaven | halyáng | oal, galahája | langéet sun | tawúo | heng | mataharée moon | chingát | kahaé | boolán full-moon | sohó | -- | -- star | tanoosamát | shokmaléicha | bintang day | tahei | heng | tsará night | átam | hatám | malám darkness | sangóola | doochóol | bania-galáp morning | haaréi | hagée | pagée day after to-morrow | -- | chayesláng | hiso-pagée-pagée evening | haráp | ladiáyá | patang summer | talák | koi-kapa | poolan-nám (i. e. the dry or | | (N.E. monsoon)
    keywords: america; appearance; arrival; auckland; australia; austrian; bark; bay; black; board; british; burke; cape; capital; captain; case; catholic; chief; children; chile; china; chinese; city; close; coal; coast; colony; company; country; course; creek; cultivation; day; days; description; distance; district; dollars; england; english; etchak |; european; expedition; fact; far; feet; fields; following; forest; form; free; french; frigate; general; german; gold; good; government; governor; great; ground; half; hand; harbour; head; high; hills; history; house; iii; importance; indian; influence; inhabitants; interest; interior; island; java; journey; labour; lbs; left; life; lima; line; man |; maori; means; miles; months; morning; natives; nature; near; new; new zealand; night; north; novara; number; o |; observations; order; panama; papeete; party; people; period; peru; place; point; population; port; portion; position; present; province; public; queen; race; read; results; return; river; road; s |; sea; set; ship; singular; sir; small; society; soil; south; southern; spanish; state; stay; steamer; sydney; tahiti; time; tons; trade; tree; valparaiso; value; village; visit; voyage; wales; war; water; way; west; white; wind; work; years; zealand; | mata; | |
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        item: #87 of 102
          id: 39141
      author: Bedini, Silvio A.
       title: Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers
        date: None
       words: 46694
      flesch: 66
     summary: He maintained a shop where he combined the business of mathematical instrument maker and ivory turner, and also imported hardware. George Adams (1704-1773) was mathematical instrument maker to King George III.
    keywords: 18th; american; andrew; benjamin; boston; brass; century; charles; clocks; collection; compass; compasses; connecticut; early; ellicott; england; figure; george; greenough; hagger; historical; house; illustration; instruments; isaac; james; john; joseph; king; land; maker; massachusetts; mathematical; museum; nautical; new; new york; north; philadelphia; rittenhouse; samuel; scientific; shop; society; son; street; surveying; thaxter; thomas; university; usnm; william; wooden; york
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        item: #88 of 102
          id: 39713
      author: Poincaré, Henri
       title: The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method
        date: None
       words: 199480
      flesch: 63
     summary: Simply because _S_ can correct [alpha] as well as [beta] and because [alpha] can be corrected by _S'_ as well as by _S_. When I say: It grows dark, that well expresses the impressions I feel in being present at an eclipse; but even in obscurity a multitude of shades could be imagined, and if, instead of that actually realized, had happened a slightly different shade, yet I should still have enunciated this _other_ fact by saying: It grows dark.
    keywords: absolute; action; bodies; body; case; chance; continuum; contrary; day; definition; dimensions; earth; elements; energy; euclidean; example; experience; experiment; fact; force; form; general; geometry; hypothesis; law; laws; light; little; mass; mathematical; matter; mean; motion; nature; new; number; object; order; phenomena; physical; point; position; principle; question; science; second; sensations; sense; series; simple; space; straight; system; theory; think; time; true; velocity; way; work; world
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        item: #89 of 102
          id: 40652
      author: Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
       title: A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar
        date: None
       words: 77901
      flesch: 87
     summary: What is CARBURETTED HYDROGEN GAS?_ A. _Carbon_ combined with _hydrogen_. Because their _brain ossifies_; and as the _cerebrum_ (or _front_ of the brain) goes, they lose the power of _sensation and reason_; and as the _cerebellum_ (or _posterior_ part of the brain) goes, they lose the power of _volition_.
    keywords: a. 1st; a. air; a. heat; a. water; acid; air; barometer; body; carbonic; chimney; clouds; cold; combustion; conductor; dew; earth; fire; flame; gas; glass; heat; hot; hydrogen; light; lightning; oxygen; rain; rays; red; room; smoke; sun; surface; vapour; warm; water; weather; wet; wind
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        item: #90 of 102
          id: 40782
      author: Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
       title: Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology Papers 34-44 on Science and Technology
        date: None
       words: 144781
      flesch: 62
     summary: Many other _materia medica_ specimens were transferred from the Department of Agriculture. The following applies to all of the Papers: Italic emphasis denoted as _Text_.
    keywords: acid; air; american; apparatus; association; baltimore; battery; bertolla; boiler; bollman; borghesi; bridge; carriage; center; century; charles; clock; coast; collection; company; construction; courtesy; day; deck; der; design; development; dial; distance; division; double; drawing; driving; duryea; earth; effect; engine; engineering; experiments; father; feet; figure; following; footnote; form; frame; frank; fulton; gear; general; geodetic; gravity; half; hand; history; hull; illustration; inches; institution; invariable; iron; john; journal; june; knife; left; length; letter; line; london; long; machine; means; medical; medicine; method; model; moon; museum; national; navy; needle; new; number; observations; original; paper; paris; patent; peirce; pendulum; period; pharmaceutical; phosphate; phosphorus; photo; pioneer; plan; plate; point; present; railroad; report; right; river; rock; screw; second; section; september; shield; ship; showing; smithsonian; states; steam; sun; support; survey; system; technology; theory; time; truss; tunnel; tunneling; u.s; united; valve; vessel; vol; washington; water; wheel; wire; work; years; york
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        item: #91 of 102
          id: 41695
      author: Raymond, Percy E. (Percy Edward)
       title: The Appendages, Anatomy, and Relationships of Trilobites
        date: None
       words: 89511
      flesch: 68
     summary: At the United States National Museum I saw the specimens of _Isotelus_ described by Mickleborough and the isolated limbs of _Calymene_ from near Cincinnati. The endopodites of _Ceraurus_, _Calymene_, and _Isotelus_ are all relatively slender, the segments are parallel-sided, and there seems to be no particular modification from front to back of the thorax.
    keywords: = =; antennules; anterior; appendages; beecher; calymene; cambrian; cephalon; ceraurus; crustacea; cryptolithus; dorsal; endopodites; exopodite; eyes; fig; figs; form; genera; glabella; hypostoma; length; like; limbs; lobe; number; organs; pairs; position; posterior; present; primitive; pygidium; segments; setæ; shows; species; specimen; spines; test; thoracic; thorax; triarthrus; trilobites; vol; walcott
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        item: #92 of 102
          id: 41839
      author: Pepper, John Henry
       title: The Boy's Playbook of Science Including the Various Manipulations and Arrangements of Chemical and Philosophical Apparatus Required for the Successful Performance of Scientific Experiments in Illustration of the Elementary Branches of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy
        date: None
       words: 168945
      flesch: 61
     summary: The paradoxical experiment of water boiling by the application of _cold_ water. When steam is passed over red-hot charcoal, hydrogen is also produced with carbonic oxide gas, and this in fact is the ordinary process of making _water gas_, which being purified is afterwards saturated with some volatile hydrocarbon and burnt.
    keywords: acid; action; air; apparatus; ball; battery; black; bodies; boiling water; bottle; box; brass; centre; coil; cold; colour; copper; course; current; cut; direction; earth; effect; electricity; end; engine; experiment; eye; fact; feet; fig; fire; flame; force; form; gas; glass; glass tube; gravity; half; heat; hot; hydrogen; illustration; inches; iron; jar; lamp; large; length; light; line; liquid; magnetic; manner; matter; means; metal; mirror; motion; number; object; oxygen; page; paper; parts; phosphorus; picture; piece; plate; point; power; pressure; quantity; rays; red; round; second; silver; small; solution; state; steam; sun; surface; temperature; time; tube; vessel; viz; water; weight; white; wire; wood
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        item: #93 of 102
          id: 42128
      author: Various
       title: The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. XLIX April-October 1850
        date: None
       words: 83501
      flesch: 58
     summary: (of the same _cretaceous_ formation), containing in places a great deal of _salt_. Eocene or middle epoch of the Tertiary formations appears to me to comprehend the following localities among those which have furnished materials for the study of the vegetation of the Tertiary period: 1_st_, In the environs of Paris, the superior sandstones, or those of Fontainebleau and the _Meulieres_, or Buhrstone, which crown our coasts; 2_d_, The sandstone, with impressions, in the environs of Mans and Angers, and probably those of Bergerac, in the department of the Dordogne; 3_d_, A part of the Tertiary formations of Auvergne, and particularly those of the mountain Gergovia, formations which, by their impressions, appear more ancient than those of Menat, but which perhaps all belong to different stages of the Pliocene epoch; 4_th_, The fresh-water formations of Armissan, near Narbonne, the Gypsum of Aix in Provence, the Lignites of Provence, whose vegetable fossils are scarcely known; finally, the Lacustrine formations, rich in the wood of palms, and in stems of Monocotyledons, from Upper Provence, near Apt and Castellane; 5_th_, A part of the Tertiary formations of Italy, and particularly those of Superga, near Turin; 6_th_, The Mollasse of Switzerland, with its Lignites, at Lausanne, Koepfnac, and Horgen, containing the remains of palms; 7_th_, The Lignites of the banks of the Rhine near Cologne and Bonn, at Friesborf, Liblar, &c., sometimes enclosing wood of palms, and those of Wetteravia at Nidda, near Frankfort, and other places; as well as those of Weisner near Cassel, which all appear to be of the same epoch, although those of Wetteravia, by the abundance of certain genera of Dicotyledons, such as _juglans_ and _acer_, and even by many cases of specific identity, seem to make a nearer approach to the Pliocene flora; 8_th_, A part of the Lignites of Bohemia, and particularly those of Altsattel, whose fossils, described by M. de Sternberg and M. Rossmæssler, generally agree with those of the other localities already mentioned.
    keywords: air; america; animals; average; character; country; course; distance; distribution; east; epoch; europe; extent; fact; fall; feet; fishes; flora; following; footnote; formations; forms; fossil; general; improvements; inches; islands; lake; land; level; limits; long; marine; mean; miles; mountains; nature; near; new; nile; north; northern; number; parts; period; phenomena; place; plants; point; present; professor; remains; river; rocks; sandstone; sea; shores; society; south; species; surface; temperate; time; types; valley; view; wadi; water; west; world; years; | +; | |; | ||; || |
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        item: #94 of 102
          id: 43791
      author: Ostwald, Wilhelm
       title: Natural Philosophy
        date: None
       words: 49234
      flesch: 53
     summary: Another form in which to present these relations is to make a distinction between _free_ energy and energy _at rest_. The common application of the concepts of space and time results in the concept of _motion_, the science of which is called phoronomics.
    keywords: case; chemical; concept; energy; experience; fact; form; group; individual; knowledge; language; law; laws; life; means; new; number; process; relations; science; theory; things; time; way; work
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        item: #95 of 102
          id: 44527
      author: Haeckel, Ernst
       title: Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Plates Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII
        date: None
       words: 28628
      flesch: 78
     summary: Eight isolated flagellate spores, × 800 Fig. 2. _Thalassolampe maxima_, n. sp., × 8 17 The entire living Spumellarium. _Collozoum ellipsoides_, n. sp., × 2 26 A spherical colony; the red points are central capsules.
    keywords: aulographis; basal; base; branches; calymma; capsule; central; centre; cyrtoidea; dorsal; end; families; family; fig; half; illustration; left; legion; mouth; n. sp; nassellaria; nuclei; nucleus; oil; order; outer; phæodaria; phæodium; piece; plate; pole; pores; pseudopodia; right; section; shell; skeleton; sp ×; spherical; sphæroidea; spine; spumellaria; teeth; terminal; tube; valve; vel; vertical; view; xanthellæ
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        item: #96 of 102
          id: 47748
      author: Philp, Robert Kemp
       title: The Reason Why A Careful Collection of Many Hundreds of Reasons for Things Which, Though Generally Believed, Are Imperfectly Understood
        date: None
       words: 136687
      flesch: 77
     summary: Water is a fluid composed of _two_ volumes of _hydrogen_ to _one_ of _oxygen_, or _eight_ parts by weight of _oxygen_ to _one_ of _hydrogen_. First, let us contemplate it as a simple beam in which _light_ and _heat_ are associated.
    keywords: "--psalm; acid; air; animals; atmosphere; birds; blood; bodies; body; bones; carbon; carbonic; cause; chapter; clouds; cold; combustion; conductor; degree; dew; earth; effect; electricity; eye; eyes; fall; feet; fig; fire; flame; food; force; form; gas; god; good; hand; heat; hot; hydrogen; illustration; leaves; lesson; life; light; lightning; lord; man; matter; motion; muscles; nature; nerves; new; oxygen; particles; parts; pass; place; plants; point; power; produce; rain; rays; snow; sound; state; substances; sun; surface; system; temperature; time; trees; vegetable; verse; vessels; vibrations; water; weather; white; wood
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        item: #97 of 102
          id: 48994
      author: Osler, William
       title: The Old Humanities and the New Science
        date: None
       words: 12322
      flesch: 58
     summary: Scientific men, in mufti or in uniform, are not more brutal than their fellows, and the utilization of their discoveries in warfare should not be a greater reproach to them than is our joyous acceptance of their success. The Classical Association, composed of a large body of university men, teachers, and schoolmasters, with local branches in several places in Great Britain and her colonies, was established in 1904 with this object: To promote the development and maintain the well-being of classical studies and in particular: (a) To impress upon public opinion the claim of such studies to an eminent place in the national scheme of education; (b) To improve the practice of classical teaching by free discussion of its scope and methods; (c) To encourage investigation and call attention to new discoveries; (d) To create opportunities for friendly intercourse and co-operation among all lovers of classical learning in this country.
    keywords: address; association; classical; greek; humanities; knowledge; learning; life; literature; man; men; mind; nature; new; osler; oxford; professor; school; science; sir; things; thought; time; university; war; world; years
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        item: #98 of 102
          id: 54557
      author: Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)
       title: Rough Ways Made Smooth: A series of familiar essays on scientific subjects
        date: None
       words: 111377
      flesch: 58
     summary: In many other cases he convinced himself that the existence of a distinct idea in his own mind gave rise to an image of the idea (that is, to a corresponding image) on the mind of the subject; not always a clear image, but one that could not fail to be recognised as a more or less distorted reflection of his own thought.' The sense of touch has, in other cases, been singularly intensified, insomuch that slight differences of heat, which to ordinary feeling were quite inappreciable, would be at once detected, while such differences as can be but just perceived in the ordinary state would produce intense distress.
    keywords: account; astronomers; boat; body; cambridge; case; change; cold; condition; corona; course; crust; days; december; degrees; distance; earth; electricity; end; evidence; fact; form; frost; great; half; hand; heat; january; light; man; matter; men; meteors; miles; mind; minimum; moon; new; november; observations; oxford; period; phenomena; place; planet; point; present; question; spots; state; stroke; style; subject; sun; surface; theory; time; water; way; weather; winter; work; years
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        item: #99 of 102
          id: 5694
      author: Various
       title: The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
        date: None
       words: 161511
      flesch: 56
     summary: His diet was barley- water, prunes with sugar, at other times broth: his drink was a ptisane. The following days, I made injections, into the depth and cavities of the ulcers, of Aegyptiacum dissolved sometimes in eau-de-vie, other times in wine, I applied compresses to the bottom of the sinuous tracks, to cleanse and dry the soft spongy flesh, and hollow leaden tents, that the sanies might always have a way out; and above them a large plaster of Diacalcitheos dissolved in wine.
    keywords: acid; action; air; animals; appearance; arm; arteries; artery; blood; body; carbonic; case; cells; consequence; contact; course; cow; day; days; disease; experiment; fact; fermentation; ferments; fever; flask; following; footnote; form; gas; general; good; half; hand; heart; inoculation; kind; king; left; life; like; liquid; living; lungs; manner; matter; means; motion; nature; new; number; oxygen; parts; patient; place; point; practice; presence; present; pus; pustule; quantity; reason; right; smallpox; state; subject; sugar; surgeon; symptoms; time; town; variolous; veins; ventricle; vibrios; virus; water; way; years; yeast
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        item: #100 of 102
          id: 5726
      author: Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton)
       title: The Fairy-Land of Science
        date: None
       words: 62352
      flesch: 74
     summary: But there is another reason why falling water makes a sound, and often even a loud roaring noise in the cataract and in the breaking waves of the sea. Here, as we shall see in Lecture VII., they are worked up into food for the plant, and only if the leaf has more water than it needs, some drops may escape at the tiny openings under the leaf, and be drawn up again by the sun-waves as invisible vapour into the air.
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        item: #101 of 102
          id: 6414
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: Lectures and Essays
        date: None
       words: 166247
      flesch: 51
     summary: So that, you see, there comes out this strange conclusion as the result of our investigations, that the Horse, when examined and compared with other animals, is found by no means to stand alone in nature; but that there are an enormous number of other creatures which have backbones, ribs, and legs, and other parts arranged in the same general manner, and in all their formation exhibiting the same broad peculiarities. But there are multitudes of other animals, such as crabs, lobsters, spiders, and so on, which we term Annulosa.
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        item: #102 of 102
          id: 7150
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: Science & Education: Essays
        date: None
       words: 109771
      flesch: 53
     summary: Such men are not those whom their own generation delights to honour; such men, in fact, rarely trouble themselves about honour, but ask, in another spirit than Falstaff's, What is honour? And well he might think so; for it gave him competence and leisure; placed him within reach of the best makers of apparatus of the day; made him a member of that remarkable Lunar Society, at whose meetings he could exchange thoughts with such men as Watt, Wedgwood, Darwin, and Boulton; and threw open to him the pleasant house of the Galtons of Barr, where these men, and others of less note, formed a society of exceptional charm and intelligence.
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