 Venus is nearer to the sun than the earth, that planet is hotter than our globe. The force emitted by the sun may take a different character at the surface of each different planet, and require different organisms or senses for its appreciation. Myriads...  The Correlation and conservation of forces - Pàgina 110per Edward Livingston Youmans - 1868 - 438 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Robert Grove - 1862 - 348 pàgines
...temperature could not live in the other, and yet both are exposed to the same luminous rays at the same time, and substantially at the same distance from the emittent...existences, it is equally vain to assume identity or close approxiM mations to our own forms in those beings which may people other worlds. From analogical reasoning,... | |
 | William Robert Grove - 1862 - 308 pàgines
...earth, it seems a highly probable assumption. So it by no means necessarily follows, that because Yenus is nearer to the sun than the earth, that planet is...existences, it is equally vain to assume identity or close approxiM mations to our own forms in those beings which may people other worlds. From analogical reasoning,... | |
 | Church - 1866 - 568 pàgines
...chemical action of light." And thus, as the same author observes elsewhere, " myriads of organized beings may exist imperceptible to our vision, even if we were among them." (Grove On the Correlation of Physical Forces, pp. 151, 152. 101.) It is the same with regard to sound.... | |
 | Orby Shipley - 1866 - 576 pàgines
...chemical action of light.". And thus, as the same author observes elsewhere, "myriads of organized beings may exist imperceptible to our vision, even if we were among them." (Grove On the Correlation of Physical Forces, pp. 151, 152. 161.) It is the same with regard to sound.... | |
 | London Dialectical Society - 1871 - 440 pàgines
...conceived as possible, Mr. Grove tells us in his work, ' Correlation of Physical Forces ;' he says : — ' Myriads of organised beings may exist imperceptible...vision, even if we were among them, and we might be equally imperceptible to them' (p. 161). These different primary elementary states are conceivable... | |
 | London Dialectical Society - 1873 - 370 pàgines
...conceived as possible, Mr. Grove tells us in his work, ' Con-elation of Physical Forces ;' he says : — ' Myriads of organised beings may exist imperceptible...vision, even if we were among them, and we might be equally imperceptible to them' (p. 161). These different primary elementary states are conceivable... | |
 | John Page Hopps - 1874 - 50 pàgines
...Physical Forces," by Grove, the dry, sober, practical, matter of fact experimentalist tells us that " myriads of organised beings may exist imperceptible...vision, even if we were among them ; and we might be equally imperceptible to them." That is only a confirmation of the splendid affirmation that the real... | |
 | Malcolm MacColl - 1875 - 566 pàgines
...innumerable may exist in the midst of us which are of so subtile a nature as to elude our visual organs. " Myriads of organised beings may exist imperceptible to our vision, even if we were among them.* And the same observation is applicable to the phenomena of sound. Notes above or below a certain pitch,... | |
 | Hudson Tuttle - 1878 - 172 pàgines
...pertinently remarks : " The force emitted from the sun may take different characters at the surface of every different planet, and require different organisms or senses for its appreciation. Myriads of organized beings may exist, imperceptible to our visions, even if we were among them, and we might... | |
 | Joseph Hands - 1879 - 572 pàgines
...emitted from the sun may take different characters at the surface of each planet, and require particular organisms or senses for its appreciation. Myriads...vision, even if we were among them, and we might be invisible to them." 77. " The necessity of ascending to higher elemental forms should be apparent,... | |
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