Air and its relations to life : being with some additions ; the substance of a course of lectures delivered in the summer of 1874 / by Walter Noel Hartley. London : Longmans, Green & Co., 1875
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PDF VPREFACE.
PDF IXCONTENTS.
PDF XIIILIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PDF 1[...] CHAPTER I. Proofs of a Material Medium surrounding the Globe—Galileo's Theory, and Torricelli's Proof of its Weight, in the Year 1640— Priestley's Discovery of Oxygen, [...]
PDF 40CHAPTER II. Black's Experiments on the Carbonating of Lime in 1754 — The Properties of Carbonic Anhydride, more commonly called Carbonic Acid—Its Production by Combustion, Respiration, Fermentation, and Decay [...]
PDF 88CHAPTER III. The Means whereby a Constancy in Composition is maintained in the Air—Currents produced by Unequal Temperatures—The Expansion of Gases by Heat [...]
PDF 132CHAPTER IV.Erroneous Ideas concerning the Origin of Minute Organisms — Redi's Experiments on the so-called Spontaneous Generation in 1638— Needham's first Experiments in Closed Vessels in 1745—Appert's Food-Preserving Process—The Researches of Schwann, of Schultze, and of Schroeder and Dusch on Atmospheric Germs— Pouchet's Theory of Heterogenesis—Pasteur's Researches on the Solid Particles Contained in the Air [...]
PDF 140Pasteur's Microscopic Examination of the Solid Particles diffused in the Atmosphere.
PDF 153Pasteur's Experiments with Heated Air.
PDF 155Germination of the Dust wich exists suspended in the Air, in Liquids suitable to the Development of the Lowest Organisms.
PDF 157Extension of previous results to other very alterable Liquids - Urine, Milk, and Albuminous Sugar Solution mixed with Carbonate of Lime.
PDF 161Another Method for showing that all the Organisms produced by previously heated Infusions have for their origin the particles which exist suspended in ordinary Atmospheric Air.
PDF 169Explanation of the Cause of Failure of the Experiments in which Mercury is used.
PDF 172Experiments concerning the Evolution of Life from Lifeless Matter.
PDF 181Modifications of Experiments.
PDF 183Method of examining a Liquid which it was difficult to retain in the Pipette-tube.
PDF 184Preparation of Solutions.
PDF 196CHAPTER V. Examination of Arguments raised in Opposition to Pasteur's Conclusions—On Saline Solutions and the Formation of Crystals—The Effect of Atmospheric Dust on Crystallisation—Crystals and Organisms [...]
PDF 211Further Researches on Atmospheric Dust.
PDF 215Further Microscopic Examinations of Air disclosing the presence of Germs.
PDF 228The Destruction of Organic Substances.
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