332 QUESTIONS TO THE pupil of the eye, and reverse the image on the retina, how is it that we ade them upright ♪ 326 What is the large glass of a telescope called 327 Do near-sighted persons require convex or concave spec. 121 tacles? 328 What is the chrystalline humour of the eye pen 329 What is refraction ? 330 How do we ascertain the wonderful velocity of light? 1:33) Read a + bo. 332 If a ́is equal to 3, 6 to 5, and v to 4, what is the value of 333 If a is equal to 7, b to 9, and c to 12, what is the value of ba 4 be02 J 334 Read ab + 2 335 How is a fluxion expressed, and give an example 336 What use has been made of hydrogen gas? 337 What is the cause of the ignis fatuus, wisp. 338 Dostones ever fall from the clouds ? · 339 What is the cause of hail? 340 How fast does the wind blow in a storm ? 341 What degree of the thermometer is called the freezing point 342 What is the annual average depth of rain in Great BÄtain? 843 What becomes of the water after it falls from the eloads ? 4344 What are the hottest months in Great Britain? 345 What degree of heat will Wedgwood's Pyrometer meɛ. sure? 346 What are the distinct purposes of barometers and thermometers? 347 Make a drawing of a telegraph. 348 What are the relative properties of white and black ? 349 Repeat Blackmore's lines on the prismatic colours, and draw in large the experiment of the prism, colouring the divisions. 350 What would the consequence be if there was no light? 351 How much larger will a man appear at two yards dis tance than at twenty? 352 What is a Galilean telescope? 353 Get two spectacle-glasses, of different convexities, at any HT optician's, and make the experiments described at Page 259. 354 What is the purpose of all the humours of the eye? 355 What is the cornes ? 356 What is reflection ? 357 In old people, do the rays converge too far or too hear! 358 What is the cause of rainbows? 359 At what height is the atmospheric air dense enough to reflect rays of light? 360 What depth of water evaporates or ascends as vapour from water per annum, and what from land? 361 How many solid miles of water fall per annum on the land only? 362 Repeat Thomson's lines on the origin of springs. 363 What is the principal cause of terrestrial heat? $64 What might be effected by high metallic conductors?' 365 In what parts of the world do the winds blow always in the same direction? 366 What is thunder? 367 What is the difference between the average temperature of Great Britain and of the equator? 368 What are the prevailing winds in Great Britain? 369 What is the difference between the average depth of rain n Great Britain and between the tropics? 370 What is the purpose of an air-pump? 371 Dissect with a pair of pointed scissars a sheep's eye. 372 Draw the figure of a rainbow, and the progress of the rays, as at page 269, on a scale two or three times the size, colouring the rays and circles. 373 Why are there three lenses in the eye-piece of a telescope? 374 What is the magnifying power of a telescope, of which the focal distance of the object-glass is three feet, and of the eye-glass a quarter of an inch? 375 What is the purpose of a concave lens? Chapters XXVIII. and XXIX. 376 What are the aerial vibrations like that produce sound ? 377 How rapid are the vibrations of sound? 378 What is the relative velocity of sound and light? 870. ITow do stringed instruments produce sound 380 How do wind-instruments, as the wind pipe of men and animals, and tubed instruments, produce their effect? 381 What is the concord of sounds? 882 What is an octave ? 383 What is harmony? 384 How is extension known to be infinite? 385 Why is sugar sweet, and vinegar sour? 386 Is motion natural to matter? 387 How is the property of infinite divisibility proved 388 What is weight? 389 What are Sir Isaac Newton's and Sir Richard Phillips's opinions respectively on attraction ? 390 What are the primary laws of motion? 391. What is meant by accelerated motion of aggregates und of atoms? On Chapter XX. 392 How arose the division of the year into months? 393 Why is the second day of the week called Tuesday, and 1 by the Romans Martis, and why is the second month of the year called February ? 394 What was the distance of time from the death of Charle. magne to the accession of Napoleon Buonaparte ? 395 Turn the date of the death of Richard 111. into a final syllable. 396 What were the names of the four great monarchies or ' empires of antiquity? 397 Who conquered France ? 308 What king of England was beheaded, and when ? 300 What were the Roman names of the English counties? 400 Who were the great characters distinguished in Grecian history? 401 Who were the great characters distinguished in Roman history? 402 Who were the founders of the four great menarchies ? 403 What length of pendulum vibrates in a second of time? 404 In what precise time does the earth return again to the same point of its orbit în revolving round the sun ? 405 In how many years will the exact excess above 305 days (reckoned as a year) make an even number of days, or bring the reckoning and time equal ? 406 What month is called after Juno, and what day after Friga 407 What day of the week answer to Jovis, Solis, and Ve neris 2 408 What is meant by leap-year? 409 How often must a leap-year be omitted to allow for the 11 minutes 3 seconds gained every year by taking leap-year every four years? 410 Make words for the date of the destruction of Carthage, and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. 411 1s history to be relied upon ? 412 What was the origin of empires? 413 What were the ancient nanies of Italy, France, the Netherlands, and Spain ? 414 What were the modern names of Mesopotamia, Thule, Parthia, Numidia, Epirus, and Latium. 415 What have been the great events in English history? 416 What were the great events of Grecian and Roman history? N. B.For the accurate study of History, the Student should go through Robinson's Grammar, reading, at the same time, his Ancient and Modern Historics. On Chapters xxx1. ***í. and xxxIII. 417 Which were the superior gods in the Grecian mythology? 418 Who were the Fates, the Furies, and the Graces ? 419 Who was Sinna, and who was Oden or Woden? 420 What is the point of sight in a perspective drawing? 421 What have been the great schools of painting? 422 Of what schools were Rembrandt, Reynolds, Rubens, and Raphael? 423 Draw those heraldic characters which signify the second son, the fifth son, and the sixth son. 424 In coats of arms, what signify dets; what lines from top to bottom; and what are the nine points of an cecute chion? 425 What was the origin and purpose of coats of arms? 426 What are the distinctive characters of the hatchments, put in front of houses after death? 427 What is the ground plane, and what the perspective plane? 428 What is the object of perspective drawing? 429 What should be the order of practice in learning draw? 430 Who were Morpheus, Jupiter, Bacelnis, Charon, and Bellona, among the Grecian divinities? 431 Who were the chief personages of the Persian, Hindoo, Egyptian, and northern mythologies ? 432 What are the requisites of a great painter? 433 Of what schools were those famous painters, Teniers, Corregio, Claude, Holbein, Gainsborough, Hogarth, and Berghem? 434 What do beasts and their postures signify in the charges of coats of arms? 435 How is the third son of a second son distinguished ?« 436 Who was the god of riches, who of the infernal regions, and who was the father of the Nine Muses? 437 Who was the god of the ocean, the god of war, the god dess of wisdom, and of fertility? 438 How is the fourth son of the third house distinguished? 439 What is relief, and how should shadows fall? 440 What means a death's head on an hatchment? 441 Under what shapes were the Egyptian divinities warshipped? Questions on Chapter xxxiv. 442 How many kinds of poetry are there, and describe them? 443 Who was the prince of poets, and who has followed in his line? 444 Who were the dramatic poets of Greece and Rome ? 445 Who have been the poets of Italy and France? 446 Who have been the famous prose writers of Spain, and who the great mathematicians of England? 447 Who are the historians of Rome and England ? 448 What is lambic verse? and give an example. 440 What is the effect of the cesuras pause, in different situations? 450 What is the name of that verse in which the accent is on every third syllable ? and give an example. 451 What are the features of English versification? 452 Whose is the beat translation of Homer, Horace, and Virgil? |