THE LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND DUBLIN PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE AND JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. CONDUCTED BY SIR DAVID BREWSTER, K.H. LL.D. F.R.S.L.&E. &c. WILLIAM FRANCIS, PH.D. F.L.S. F.R.A.S. F.C.S. "Nec aranearum sane textus ideo melior quia ex se fila gignunt, nec noster VOL. III.-FOURTH SERIES. JANUARY-JUNE, 1852. LONDON. TAYLOR AND FRANCIS, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET. SOLD BY LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS; SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, WILEY AND PUTNAM, NEW YORK. "Meditationis est perscrutari occulta; contemplationis est admirari perspicua . . . . . Admiratio generat quæstionem, quæstio investigationem, investigatio inventionem."-Hugo de S. Victore. -“Cur spirent venti, cur terra dehiscat, Cur mare turgescat, pelago cur tantus amaror, J. B. Pinelli ad Mazonium. TIRKYKA CONTENTS OF VOL. III. Dr. Schlagintweit's Observations in the Alps on the Optical Sir D. Brewster's Account of a Binocular Camera, and of a Solids by the Stereoscope.... Sir D. Brewster's Notice of a Chromatic Stereoscope... Mr. J. P. Joule's Account of Experiments with a powerful Elec- Dr. Woods on the Heat of Chemical Combination.. Prof. Challis on the Cause of the Aberration of Light.. Sir D. Brewster's Explanation of an Optical Illusion... Notices respecting New Books:-Mr. R. Hunt's Elementary Physics; Paterson's Calculus of Operations; Four Intro- Meteorological Observations for November 1851... Meteorological Observations made by Mr. Thompson at the Garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, near 80 |