Popular scientific lectures Part 18

Plasticity of organic nature, 216.

Plateau, his law of free liquid equilibrium, 9; his method of getting rid of the effects of gravity, 4.

Plates of oil, thin, 6.

Plato, 347, 371.

Plautus, 347.

Playfair, 138.

Pleasant effects, cause of, 94 et seq.

Pliny, 349.

Poetry and science, 30, 31, 351.

Poinsot, on the foundations of mechanics, 152 et seq.

Polarisation, 91; abstractly described by Newton, 242.

Politics, Chinese speak with unwillingness of, 374.

Pollak, 299.

Polyp plant, humanity likened to a, 235.

Pompeii, 234; art in, 80.

Popper J., 172, 216.

Potential, social, 15; electrical, 121 et seq.; measurement of, 126; fall of, 177; swarm of notions in the idea of, 197; its wide scope, 250.

Pottery, invention of, 263.

Prediction, 221 et seq.

Prejudice, the function, power, and dangers of, 232-233.

Preparatory schools, the defects of the German, 346-347; what they should teach, 364 et seq.

Pressure of a stone or of a magnet, will compared to, 14; also 157.

Primitive acts of knowledge the foundation of scientific thought, 190.

Problem, nature of a, 223.

Problems which are wrongly formulated, 308.

Process, Carnot's, 161 et seq.

Projectiles, the effects of the impact of, 310, 327-328; seen with the naked eye, 311, 317; measuring the velocity of, 332; photography of, 309-337.

p.r.o.ny's brake, 132.

Proof, nature of, 284.

Prophesying events, 220 et seq.

Psalms, quotation from the, 89.

Pseudoscope, Wheatstone's, 96.

Psychology, preceded by astronomy, 90; how reached, 91 et seq.; helps physical science, 104; its method the same as that of physics, 207 et seq.

Pully arrangement, ill.u.s.trating principle of least superficial area, 12-13.

Purkinje, 284, 285, 291, 299.

Purposes, the acts of nature compared to, 14-15; nature pursues no, 66.

Puzzle-lock, a, 26.

Puzzles, 277.

Pyramid of oil, 6.

Pythagoras, his discovery of the laws of harmony, 32, 259.

Quality of tones, 36.

Quant.i.tative investigation, the goal of, 180.

Quant.i.ty of electricity, 111, 118, 119, 167-170, 173; of heat, 166, 167-171, 174, 177, 244; of motion, 184.

Quests made of the inquirer, not by him, 30.

QuAtelet, 15, footnote.

Rabelais, 283.

Raindrop, form of, 3.

Rameau, 34.

Reaction and action, principle of, 191.

Reactions, disclosure of the connexion of, 270 et seq.

Realgymnasien, 365.

Realschulen, 365, 373.

Reason, stands above the senses, 105.

Reflex action, 210.

Reflexion, produces symmetrical reversion of objects, 93 et seq.

Refraction, 29, 193, 194, 208, 230, 231.

Reger, 328.

Reliefs, photographs of, 68.

Repet.i.tion, its rAle in Asthetics, 89, footnote, 91 et seq., 97, 98 et seq., 390.

Reproduction of facts in thought, 189, 193, 198, 253.

Repulsion, electric, 109 et seq., 168.

Research, function of experimental 181; the aim of, 205.

Resemblances between facts, 255.

Resin, solution of, 7.

Resistance, laws of, for bodies travelling in air and fluids, 333 et seq.

Resonance, corporeal, 392.

Response of sonorous bodies, 25.

Retina, the corresponding spots of 98; nerves of compared to fingers of a hand, 96 et seq.

Reversible processes, 161 et seq., 175, 176, 181, 182.

Rhine, the, 94.

Richard the Third, 77.

Riddles, 277.

Riders, 379.

Riegler, 319.

Riess, experiment with the thermo-electrometer, 133 et seq., 169.

Rigid connexions, 142.

Rind of a fruit, 190.

Rings of oil, ill.u.s.trating formation of rings of Saturn, 5.

Ritter, 291, 299.

Rods of Corti, 19.

Rolph, W. H., 216.

Roman Church, Latin introduced with the, 340 et seq.

Romans, their provinciality and narrow-mindedness, 270.

Romeo and Juliet, 87.

RAmer, Olaf, 51 et seq.

Roots, the nature of, in language, 252.

Rosetti, his experiment on the work required to develop electricity, 131.

Rotating bodies, 285.

Rotation, apparatus of, in physics, 59 et seq.; sensations of, 288 et seq.

Rousseau, 336.

Rubber pyramid, ill.u.s.trating the principle of least superficial area, 10-11.

Ruysdael, 279.

Sachs, Hans, 106.

Salcher, Prof. 319.

Salviati, 144.

Saturn, rings of, their formation ill.u.s.trated, 5.

Saurians, 257.

Sauveur, on acoustics, 34, 375 et seq.

Savage, modes of conception and interpretation of a, 218 et seq.

SchAfer, K., 298.