Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
The Congressional troops advancing. The river Aconcagua. Balmaceda's troops retreating.
Esmeralda firing shell at Fort Callao. Almirante Cochrane firing at Balmaceda's artillery behind Fort Callao. Battery of Congress artillery trying to silence government troops at Vina del Mar. Balmaceda's field batteries at back of Fort Callao. Fort Callao. Congress infantry firing at troops at Vina del Mar, Balmaceda's infantry returning fire of Congress troops opposite.
The battle of Concon took place Aug. 21, 1891. Nine thousand Congressional troops advancing toward Valparaiso from Quinteros Bay, where they had landed the day previous, were met by Balmaceda's troops on the other side of the river Aconcagua. The Esmeralda and the Magellanes, co-operating from the sea, made fearful havoc among the Balmacedists with their machine guns and shell. After a stubborn fight the Balmacedists were totally defeated, and were pursued by the victorious cavalry, losing 4,000 out of 12,000 in killed, wounded and deserters. All their field pieces were captured, and thus the road was left open for the Congressionalists to advance on Viña del Mar.
A general engagement took place on Aug. 23, 1891, between divisions of Balmaceda's and the Congressional troops, with the Esmeralda and the Almirante Cochrane aiding the latter by firing at Fort Callao, endeavoring to silence the field batteries at the back. The Congressional troops failed to capture Viña del Mar, but eventually cut the railway line a few miles out, and crossed over to the back of Valparaiso, which was soon captured.— The Graphic.
Science needed two thousand years to disentangle the earth's orbital movement from the revolutions of the other planets, and the incomparably more arduous problem of distinguishing the solar share in the confused multitude of stellar displacements first presented itself as possibly tractable a little more than a century ago. In the lack for it as yet of a definite solution there is, then, no ground for surprise, but much for satisfaction in the large measure of success attending the strenuous attacks of which it has so often been made the object.
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 829
NEW YORK, November 21, 1891.
THE BATTLE OF VIÑA DEL MAR, CHILE.
ANIMAL POWER AT DIFFERENT PERIODS OF LIFE.
FALL OF TEMPERATURE—MODE OF ACTION.
EXTRACTION OF HEAT.
SUPPRESSED OXIDATION.
MECHANICAL COLD.
COMBINED EFFECTS.
SOME SIMPLE RULES.
§ 1.—THE ELEMENTS OF DECORATION.
§ 2.—THE TWO KINDS OF FOLIAGE.
§ 3.—APPLICATION OF THE TWO KINDS.
§ 4.—THE FOUR TREATMENTS.
§ 5.—THE BOTANICAL ANALYSIS TREATMENT.
§ 6.—THE DISGUISED ARTIFICIALITY TREATMENT.
§ 7.—NOTE ON SYMMETRY.
§ 8.—REALISM AND CONVENTIONALISM: DEFINITIONS.
§ 9.—SCALES FROM REALISM TO CONVENTIONALISM.
PRIMARY BATTERIES.
SECONDARY BATTERIES.
METHOD.
RESULTS OF EXAMINATION.
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