The household cyclopædia of practical receipts and daily wants . esolution, and not to inhale the odour, asthe cyanide is a violent poison. Tiie Weiglit of a Sunbeam.—Not only does light fiy from the sunwith a velocity which is a milliontimes greater than the speed of a can-non-ball, but it darts from every re-flecting surface with a like velocity,and reaches the eye so gently that, asit falls upon it, it imparts the mostpleasing sensations. Philosophers oncesought to weigh the sunbeam. Theyconstructed a most delicate balance,and suddenly let in upon it a beam oflight. The lever of the balance
The household cyclopædia of practical receipts and daily wants . esolution, and not to inhale the odour, asthe cyanide is a violent poison. Tiie Weiglit of a Sunbeam.—Not only does light fiy from the sunwith a velocity which is a milliontimes greater than the speed of a can-non-ball, but it darts from every re-flecting surface with a like velocity,and reaches the eye so gently that, asit falls upon it, it imparts the mostpleasing sensations. Philosophers oncesought to weigh the sunbeam. Theyconstructed a most delicate balance,and suddenly let in upon it a beam oflight. The lever of the balance wasso delicately hung that the flutteringof a fiy would have disturbed prepared, the grave mentook their places, and with keen eyeswatched the result. The sunbeamthat was to decide the experiment hadleft the sun eight minutes prior, topass the ordeal. It had flown through95,000,000 miles of space in that shortmeasure of time, and it shot upon thebalance with unabated velocity. Butthe lever moved not; and the philo-sophers were mute! ^B5^ //?. Croquet {see p. 253).
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