Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-05-03

res Of production or, in other words we reach tie point
where magnetic force acnc force caisyc force and che
mica and analytic force acting om in, through, and by
light upon the earlier refined, and a.tenuated forma-
ons Of the three primaries Commonly known as the ee
mentary bodies of chemistry existing in an extreme gaseous
FORM generate first liquids, and afterwards Solids together
with their concomans Of vegetable and animal existence
That finally, having motion derived in the beginning and
continuing the end perceive that no one thing can
abide. in any stay y and, viewing all the premises in
their length and BREADTH height and deph we are prepared
understand why the system of Nature really is viz
system Of order yet system Of change; system Of per-
raanency yet system Of mutation a system of harmony,
yet system OF variety system always beginning, yet
system always ending!
say that when maH, throwing aside his prejudices and
his love for phanoms shall to con over this simple chart
of Nature, and learn from its immortal truths be will then,
for the hrs me justly to esteem himself indeed
Gods most precious handiwork. He will come to know
that he has not only through his intellect been endowed with
portion Of omnscence, but graspDg the two great forces
Of the world, he will claim portion of omnpotence. He
will come to estimate rightly these mighty lines power
and will see that the electric attractive line manifest no
repusve Effects and that the cslo6c repusve line can
manifest no attractions For bis practical mechanical pur-
poses he will first apply them separately, generating
sets OF independent actions enabling him. through the nu
mentality Of either, to glide the earh the ocean,
sail through the air he may WISH He will, secondly, sp
ply them collectively but operating in continuous direction
and he will become converted into Tan whose breath
ings shall uph the Etnean weight which should struggle
confne his gigantic strength His weapons Of battle will be
shafts Of lightning and bolts Of fire and he will now have
reached the falcrum and the lever which aoated wildly
in The brain Of Archmedes, and may shout back the spirit
Of that ancient and renowned philosopher his joyful cry
raised two thousand years ago. Eureka " for peace would
dwell in the land as would be anntiLaton! (2.)
Though gentlemen, yourselves and your readers may be
disposed regard much ALL have said idle imag-
ings, can only you, Galeo answered me-
morabe occasion in bis @ by saying that the system Of
ture does not depend upon what may think "H SO "
Neither public private opinion alter the truths of
tura Science, and time alone establish them. (3)
N) (5)
have the honor to be yours, very respectfully,
JOHN TYLER, Jr.
PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 10, 1851.
Note lAs the prediction made here that atmospheric
air may be made to take the place Of steam in navga
ton from the newspapers that in Springfield
Massachusetts, has accomplished the idea since this
written, and has already proceeded with the invention
the Worlds Fair in London
No,e 2-Archimides, two thousand years ago, pre-
pared destroy the fleets Of the then known world with gh
alone, and did actually destroy the Roman feet. II
this remarkable who also first discovered the rules
cc gravity which much Of best scientific knowledg
is basel On discovering these principles, is said HI
became SO elated that in Of nudity he conception
having him while in his bath, be through thu
streets Of Syracuse shouthng " Eureka -u is found
II was also HIM who used the memorable expression, Give
resting place, and will move the world Bonaparte
whose eagle eye, seems nothing Of value escaped wher
First Consul ordered the works Of this great philosopher b.
translated by the ables members Of the Academic
Deambre and NJ Peyrard performed the task. Since writ
ing the above communication, have met with able article
these abors Of Deambre and Peyrad in the Edinburgh
Review Of May, sll from which venture to make the fol
lowing extract, in support Of my illusions recorded
Archimedes may justly be regarded, the WHOLE as the
inventive philosopher that has Born
the Island Of Sicily, where Grecian colonies had carried the
liberal very high pitch Of improvement he discovered
early passion for knowledge and elegant science and fol
lowing the impulse of his inclination he repaired Egyp
and completed his education at the Royal establishment
Alexandria, the great seat Of mathematical learning, which,
every branch, had for ages ourshed under the muncen
patronage Of the Ptoemes On his return to Syracuse
devoted himself entirely abstract and having by
his creative genius improved the method Of eeomeca
ysis, he carried that refined instrument beyond its od
nary limits, and investigated with the happest success the
relations of curved lines, surfaces and solids He measured
the paraboo appro1ma,ed the quadatue of the circle
investigated the properties Of spheas and conods assigned
the superficial extent Of the spherical zones and determined
those fine proportions which the sphere with the
and cylinder In his Arcnaius he has pushed to
tent the ideas of arhmeca notation and almost
have anticipated there in degree the sublime invention
Of logarithms.
"Such abstruse discoveries that early PERIOD the
most intense application Of thought Archimedes did not
however, confne his views to speculation but
bracing the widest range, he particularly cultivated those OBJ
jecs which of most importance commercial and mari
time State. He established the true principles Of mechanics,
and laid the foundation of hydostscs and by assigning the
position Of the centre Of gravity in variety Of figures and
fixing the circumstances which determine the stability Of
floating bodies he traced the first rudmens Of naval
chitecure His talents and nexhaustble
practical engineer suspended the fall of Syracuse and enabled
that petty State resist successfully for the space Of three
whole years, the efforts of Roman power.
But the philosopher doomed survive the ndepend
Of his native country. He pershed amid the Of
horror and ndscminate carnage which closed the fatal
assault"
think is Plutarch who says that when the Roman SOL
dey burst in upon him they found him calmly engaged in
his intellectual labor and that he merely desired before being
slain where he sat- be permitted to finish the problem
which he engaged at the me Surely the generations
that after will have better premises reason
from, and to apply invention, than Archimedes had
thousand wears spo when he launched his shafts of pht