单词 | William Crookes |
例句 | William Crookes, a chemist and journalist, began attending séances after the death of his brother in the 1860s. All that is unseen 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Yet the belief gripped distinguished scientists of the era, from physicist William Crookes to naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. The science of magic, dung beetles on parade, and the unexplored depths: Books in brief 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z The experiments were continued, in a masterly way, by the celebrated chemist, Sir William Crookes, and yielded him the most wondrous results. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z His intention was not to make diamonds, but Sir William Crookes predicted that diamonds would be the result. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z In the raising of the standard of farming to an English level the volume of the world’s crop would be trebled, another fact which Sir William Crookes seems to have overlooked. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z This residue was submitted by Sir William Crookes to the lengthy operations already described in the account of H. Moissan’s fused iron experiment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Certain experiments of Sir William Crookes with Home came very near to satisfying the most stringent scientific conditions, especially those in the alteration in the weight of a board. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z Such are the experiments of Sir William Crookes. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Sir William Crookes took up in 1872 the study of electric discharge through 192 high vacua, having been led to it by his researches on the radiometer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z Telepathy in these first two aspects has been likewise accepted as a scientific fact by workers in psychical research like Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, William James, and by many others. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Sir William Crookes in 1906 communicated to the Royal Society a paper on a new formation of diamond. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Sir William Crookes now resolved to put the matter to a test by attempting to obtain a photograph of "Katie," the famous "control" of Miss Cook, the medium. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z Like William Crookes, a 19th century British scientist with a passion for the paranormal. Surprising science 2010-04-27T09:55:00Z When William Crookes drew his highly imaginative picture of an “evolution” of the chemical elements, he put into it “phosphorus for the brain, salt for the sea, clay for the solid earth....” History of Phosphorus Sir William Crookes has, however, changed a pale yellow diamond to a bluish-green colour by keeping it embedded in radium bromide for eleven weeks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" No living scientist has bestowed so large an amount of study on "certain phenomena usually termed spiritualistic" as Sir William Crookes. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research Until Sir William Crookes began to investigate the alleged spiritualistic phenomena, all investigation had been undertaken by persons without scientific training. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z This view of the limited prospects of practical microbiology for the fixing of nitrogen in plant-food was corroborated by Sir William Crookes in the Presidential Address already cited. Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast According to Sir William Crookes, the first of these are free electrons, or matter in an ultra-gaseous state, as shown in the cathode stream. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science Three vital points in psychic research were established by Sir William Crookes. Elementary Theosophy Sir William Crookes also devoted a portion of his address, as President of the British Association in 1898, to a reference to the part he took many years before in psychical research. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research The experiments of Sir William Crookes and others by Mr Cromwell Varley, with various mediums, supply us with the best proof we have that medium and spirit possess separate identities. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z But no flash of lightning rent the halls of learning; Sir William Crookes' researches into radiant matter could safely be accepted as workable 63 intellectual ground, but not his researches into spiritual dynamics. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war That is a model of the double-decked boat made by Sir William Petty, and there beyond is a specimen of almost, if not quite, the first radiometer devised by Sir William Crookes. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science All these things Sir William Crookes did upon his own premises and under the most rigid scientific conditions. Elementary Theosophy With regard to Sir William Crookes' evidence the reader is referred to two paragraphs on page 124. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research But Home, or the spirits proved too strong for even Sir William Crookes and his instruments. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters Somewhat later William Crookes of London, an equally famous chemist and physicist, entered upon a similar investigation, and with like results. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Not even Sir William Crookes's vacua can give an idea of the rarefaction which this fact implies. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition As Sir William Crookes was the earliest, Sir Oliver Lodge is the latest of the famous scientists who have taken up the investigation of the continuity of consciousness. Elementary Theosophy As long ago as the year 1874, Sir William Crookes gave permission for the reprint of a limited number of copies of various articles which he had contributed to the periodical literature of the day. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, and Mr. Frank Podmore are other members of the society who have granted the outside world informative glimpses of its workings and discoveries. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters Since then, Mr. Balfour, the present writer, and Professor William Crookes have held the presidential office. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Let us begin with that great master of modern science, Sir William Crookes, the inventor of the 40celebrated "Crookes' Tubes," without which the discovery of the X-Ray and Radio-Activity would have been impossible. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers In the Electro-magnetic theory of light we have again to think of atoms, which are termed electrons by Dr. Larmor and Sir William Crookes; while Professor J. J. Thompson calls them corpuscles. Aether and Gravitation In 1890, an article by Sir William Crookes, under the title of "Notes of Seances with D. D. Home," was published in volume vi. of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research You can't call Sir William Crookes, the inventor of the Crookes' Tubes, a dreamer! The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play Sir William Crookes had a similar experience, except in his case he saw the pencil move, prop itself against a ruler, and try three times to write—all in the light. The Tyranny of the Dark Particularly, the report of Sir William Crookes, the eminent English scientist, will furnish such proof to the inquirer who demands "scientific proof" before he will believe anything out of the usual. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers The researches of such living scientists as Sir William Crookes, Professor J. J. Thomson and others, have, however, made this dream come within the range of practical research and direct experiment. Aether and Gravitation Old William Crookes paid into the Treasury the neat sum of one million and compromised the case. The Root of Evil By means of this we shall certainly gain those "new glimpses of a profounder scheme of cosmic law" to which Sir William Crookes refers and which his vision discerns as open to science. The Life Radiant Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, Alfred Russel Wallace, Lombroso have all been convinced of the reality of these phenomena. The Tyranny of the Dark They suggested Sir William Crookes, who was at this time in the early prime of his life and a renowned chemist—just the man for the work. The Shadow World In America he is called a "druggist," but "chemist" is better, even though it confuses a mere peddler of ammoniated quinine with Sir William Ramsay and Sir William Crookes. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 The address of Professor William Crookes before the British Association, upon the “Genesis of the Elements,” is one of the most important contributions to chemical philosophy that has been published for a long time. Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 Sir William Crookes, the President of the Royal Society, came and became 'much impressed by the most ingenious and novel self-recording instruments.' Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches "Sir William Crookes and Dr. Zöllner, you say, believed in these disembodied intelligences—" "Yes, but they belong to what Haeckel calls the imaginative scientists." The Tyranny of the Dark It made me think of the substance described by Sir William Crookes and other experimenters abroad. The Shadow World Sir William Crookes has lately made some interesting observations on this subject. Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research Sir William Crookes' experiments in these physical phenomena were carried on with him as medium. Modern Religious Cults and Movements This effect was studied by Sir William Crookes very profoundly. Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements And they have been directed not by imaginative artists like Mr. Yeats or even Mr. Moore, but by solid scientific students like Sir William Crookes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The New Jerusalem The interest of it was enhanced by the presence of the great apostle of Spiritualism - Sir William Crookes. Tracks of a Rolling Stone Sir William Crookes could see her and photograph her as much as he pleased; heedless of his environment, he published what seemed to him the truth. Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research But the decisive step in this sphere of research was taken by the English physicist, William Crookes. Man or Matter It is worth while noting what Sir William Crookes, in his "Genesis of the Elements," remarks on the relations of the interperiodic group with its neighbours. Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements And sceptical physicists like Sir William Crookes demonstrate by laboratory experiments that "mediums" like Douglas Home can make the pointer of a spring-balance go round without touching the weight suspended from it. Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion The company present were Dr. Bird's intimate friend Sir William Crookes - future President of the Royal Society - Miss Bird, Dr. Bird's daughter, and her husband - Mr. Ionides - and Mrs. -, the mother of the young artist. Tracks of a Rolling Stone Sir William Crookes had in 1874 applied himself to the task of creating something more nearly like a vacuum than the old air-pumps afforded. The Story of Evolution We have now reached the last of the groups as arranged on Sir William Crookes' lemniscates, that forming the "neutral" column; it is headed by helium, which is sui generis. Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements B. Thus we have tabulated in all 65 chemical elements, or chemical atoms, completing three of Sir William Crookes' lemniscates, sufficient for some amount of generalization. Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements |
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