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 Vorderdeckel
- PDF Vorsatz
- PDF Vortitelblatt
- PDF Titelblatt
- 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.
- PDF Vorsatz
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