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John Mayow was the first to realize that "nitro-aerial" vapour, or oxygen, is essential to respiration of a living animal, and he was soon led to inquire "how it happens that the foetus can live though imprisoned in the straits of the womb and completely destitute of air."
Mayow no further away than next door, and able to play the fiddle to the life what I say is, ladies and gentlemen, let's light up a fire and see if, with all their reading and writing, the young folks have forgot how to dance!" In the hubbub that followed, Cherry caught Hester by the arm and whispered "Why I clean forgot 'twas Midsummer Eve! We'll try our fortun's afterwards.
Mayow murmured, with her eyes on the fire, "I never hear one of those fellers without wishing I had a million of money. There's so many little shiny pots and pans you could go on buying for ever and ever, just like Heaven!" She sighed as she poured the boiling water into the teapot. On Saturday nights, when the children were packed off, a deep peace always fell upon Mrs.
If there was no change in the total weight of the apparatus and its contents, and if air rushed in when the vessel was opened after the calcination, and the total weight was then greater than at the beginning of the process, it would be necessary to adopt either the supposition of Rey or that of Mayow. Lavoisier made a series of experiments.
A few years before the publication of Boyle's work, from which I have quoted, John Mayow, student of Oxford, recounted experiments which led to the conclusion that the air contains two substances, one of which supports combustion and the breathing of animals, while the other extinguishes fire.
She's terrible absent in her mind." Mrs. Mayow came panting back with a kettleful of water, which she set to boil; and, Cherry now reappearing with the report that all the children were safe abed, the three women sat around the fire awaiting their supper, and listening to the voice of the Cheap Jack without. "We'll step out and have a look at him by-and-by," said Cherry. "For my part," Mrs.
Some of the alchemists of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries taught that combustion and calcination are processes wherein the igneous principle is destroyed, using the word "destroyed" in its alchemical meaning. This description of processes of burning was much more in keeping with the ideas of the time than that given by Boyle, Rey and Mayow.
"If he'd only been home to his time " "He's home to-day in the Touch-me-not." "He's no good to King nor country," said Mrs. Mayow. "He was telling me about a man that got swallowed by a whale " "Go away with your Jonahses!" sneered one of his sisters. "It wasn't Jonah. This man's name was Jones Captain Jones, from Dundee.
Rey said: calcination, of a metal at anyrate, probably consists in the fixation of particles of air by the substance which is calcined. Mayow answered the question by asserting, on the ground of the results of his experiments, that the substance which is being calcined lays hold of a particular constituent of the air, not the air as a whole.
The solution of the problem followed almost as a matter of course upon the advances of that science in the latter part of the century. Hitherto no one since Mayow, of the previous century, whose flash of insight had been strangely overlooked and forgotten, had even vaguely surmised the true function of the lungs.
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