The Cabinet of Arts: Or, General Instructor in Arts, Science, Trade, Practical Machinery, the Means of Preserving Human Life, and Political EconomyT. Kinnersley, 1817 - 859 páginas |
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Página 36
... consists of a pipe of wood or metal open at both ends ; in the pipe a rod is made to be moved up and down by the handle act- ing on a joint or crank . At the lower end of the rod is fixed a small circular box , called the piston ...
... consists of a pipe of wood or metal open at both ends ; in the pipe a rod is made to be moved up and down by the handle act- ing on a joint or crank . At the lower end of the rod is fixed a small circular box , called the piston ...
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... consists of a straight glass tube or pipe a quarter or rather one - third of an inch in diameter , and thirty - four inches long . It is hermetically sealed at one end ( that is , the end is closed by melting the sides together ) and ...
... consists of a straight glass tube or pipe a quarter or rather one - third of an inch in diameter , and thirty - four inches long . It is hermetically sealed at one end ( that is , the end is closed by melting the sides together ) and ...
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... consists of a brass barrel containing a piston , with a valve opening downwards ; so that when it is drawn up the air above passes through it , and when it pushed down the valve shuts , and the air below is forced through a valve in the ...
... consists of a brass barrel containing a piston , with a valve opening downwards ; so that when it is drawn up the air above passes through it , and when it pushed down the valve shuts , and the air below is forced through a valve in the ...
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... consists of two principal branches . 1st . Catoptrics , from the Greek catoptron , a speculum or mirror ; re- lative to light reflected from polished or smooth surfaces . 2d . Dioptrics from dioptesthai to see through ; relative to the ...
... consists of two principal branches . 1st . Catoptrics , from the Greek catoptron , a speculum or mirror ; re- lative to light reflected from polished or smooth surfaces . 2d . Dioptrics from dioptesthai to see through ; relative to the ...
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... consists of two parts , the fore part being the iris , which begins at the same place with the cornea . The iris , called also the uvea , consists of two kinds of fibres , the one set tending like rays to the centre , and the other set ...
... consists of two parts , the fore part being the iris , which begins at the same place with the cornea . The iris , called also the uvea , consists of two kinds of fibres , the one set tending like rays to the centre , and the other set ...
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Página 97 - And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing : and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
Página 97 - None from henceforth shall use to multiply gold or silver, or use the craft of multiplication; and if any the same do, he shall incur the pain of felony.
Página 346 - For the works of nature are full of disproportion, and fall very short of the true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy any object ever presented to his sight; but contemplated only that image which he had conceived in his mind from Homer's description.
Página 346 - Neither did this artist," says he, "when he carved the image of Jupiter or Minerva, set before him any one human figure, as a pattern, which he was to copy; but having a more perfect idea of beauty fixed in his mind, this he steadily contemplated, and to the imitation of this all his skill and labour were directed.
Página 303 - Michael Angelo's works have a strong, peculiar, and marked character: they seem to proceed from his own mind entirely, and that mind so rich and abundant, that he never needed, or seemed to disdain, to look abroad for foreign help. Raffaelle's materials are generally borrowed, though the noble structure is his own.
Página 71 - Thus Fullers and Dyers find black Cloths, of equal Thickness with white ones, and hung out equally wet, dry in the Sun much sooner than the white, being more readily heated by the Sun's Rays.
Página 327 - ... confused manner in which those collections have been laid up in his mind. The addition of other men's judgment is so far from weakening our own, as is the opinion of many, that it will fashion and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused...
Página 331 - When I observed an extraordinary effect of light and shade in any picture, I took a leaf of my pocket-book, and darkened every part of it in the same gradation of light and shade as the picture, leaving the white paper untouched to represent the light, and this without any attention to the subject, or to the drawing of the figures.
Página 313 - I reflect not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration * Che Raffaelle non ebbe quest" arte da nutura, ma per lunyo studio. of that truly divine man, and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.
Página 346 - ... of the art in which English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history and of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings illustrate his lessons, and...