The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 194
system.He discovered two of the satelhtes of Saturn, and alsomade some additions to the knowledge of the propertiesof light and heat. Pierre Simon Lapiace was a cotemporary of Her-schel, having been born in France, March 23,1749, dyingin Paris, March 5,1827. Like Herschel, he was of humbleorigin.… … SIR W. HERSCHEI,. (189) LAPLACE AND LEVEEEIERs DISCOVEEIES. 191 calorimeter for measuring the capacity of bodies of heat; his discoveries of the cause of the discrepancy betweenthe theoretical and observed velocity of sound, his rulesfor barometrical measurement, and his theories regard-ing…
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