The Alphabet of Nature

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Excerpt from The Alphabet of Nature: Or, Contributions Towards a More Accurate Analysis and Symbolization of Spoken Sounds, With Some Account of the Principal Phonetical Alphabets Hitherto Proposed It is by no means intended, in what is here said, to give an accurate account of what passes in either of these cases, (in fact, it is very far from being so, as the reader, by a little attention, will soon perceive, ) but only to give a first conception of the propagation of motion by undula tions, or waves. In this general account of the above cases, one thing, however, can not fail to strike the reader, that the wave which advances on the surface Of the water - the sinuosity which nms along the stretched cord - are neither of them things, but forms. They are not moving masses, advan cing in the direction in which they appear to run, but outlines, or figures, which, at each instant of time, include all the particles of the water, or the cord, which, it is true, are moving, but whose motion is, in fact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.