Open AccessCroonian lecture. - The cosmical function of the green plant
Publication year - 1904
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9126
pISSN - 0370-1662
DOI - 10.1098/rspl.1903.0074
Subject(s) - notice , contemplation , object (grammar) , function (biology) , bit (key) , philosophy , art , medicine , computer science , theology , biology , law , computer security , linguistics , political science , microbiology and biotechnology
The first object which attracted Gulliver’s notice when on his visit to the Academy of Lagado was a man of “meagre appearance,” his eyes fixed on a cucumber sealed in a phial. On Gulliver’s questioning him, the strange personage explained that for more than 8 years he had been absorbed in the contemplation of this bit of apparatus, trying in vain to solve the problem of the storage of the sun’s rays in this recipient and their possible utilisation.