Astronomy and General Physics: Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, Volum 3,Part 4H.G. Bohn, 1852 - 328 pàgines |
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... Atmosphere VI . The Constancy and Variety of Climates 44 45 47 of Climate VII . The Variety of Organization corresponding to the Variety VIII . The Constituents of Climate The Laws of Heat with respect to the Earth IX . The Laws of Heat ...
... Atmosphere VI . The Constancy and Variety of Climates 44 45 47 of Climate VII . The Variety of Organization corresponding to the Variety VIII . The Constituents of Climate The Laws of Heat with respect to the Earth IX . The Laws of Heat ...
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... atmosphere , or spherical covering of air ; and that various other physical agents , moisture , electricity , magnetism , light , operate at the surface of the earth , according to their peculiar laws . This surface is , 12 INTRODUCTION ...
... atmosphere , or spherical covering of air ; and that various other physical agents , moisture , electricity , magnetism , light , operate at the surface of the earth , according to their peculiar laws . This surface is , 12 INTRODUCTION ...
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... atmospheric causes : those which change their hour of opening and shutting with the length of the day , he terms tropical ; and the hours which they measure are , he observes , like Turkish hours , of varying length at different seasons ...
... atmospheric causes : those which change their hour of opening and shutting with the length of the day , he terms tropical ; and the hours which they measure are , he observes , like Turkish hours , of varying length at different seasons ...
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... atmosphere ; for differences in this pressure appear to exercise a powerful influence on the functions of plants , and to require differences of structure . But we pass over these considerations . The slightest attention to the ...
... atmosphere ; for differences in this pressure appear to exercise a powerful influence on the functions of plants , and to require differences of structure . But we pass over these considerations . The slightest attention to the ...
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... atmosphere thinner than that which oppresses the respiration of the traveller on the tops of the highest mountains . We see therefore that those dark and unknown central portions of the earth , which are placed far beyond the reach of ...
... atmosphere thinner than that which oppresses the respiration of the traveller on the tops of the highest mountains . We see therefore that those dark and unknown central portions of the earth , which are placed far beyond the reach of ...
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Pàgina 92 - to take place in their chaos ? " For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms:— to whom these most adhere He rules a moment: Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray." * A state of things something like that which Milton
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Pàgina 298 - he the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all places, is more able by his will to move the bodies within his boundless uniform sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the parts of the universe, than
Pàgina 192 - that I do not take gravity for an essential property of bodies, I have added one question concerning its cause, choosing to propose it by way of question, because I am not yet satisfied about it for want of experiments." The hypothesis which he thus suggests is, that there is an elastic medium pervading all space, and increasing
Pàgina 5 - 1 large vol. royal 8vo, Illustrated by upwards of 230 humorous and extremely clever Wood run In France, greater even than the Pickwick Papers In this country. This book is extremely clever, both in the letter-press and plates, and has had an Immense POOLE'S COMIC SKETCH BOOK; OR, SKETCHES AND RECOLLECTIONS BY THE
Pàgina 308 - of which nature is composed, if, moreover, it were sufficiently comprehensive to subject these data to calculation, would include in the same formula, the movements of the largest bodies of the universe and those of the slightest atom. Nothing would be uncertain to such an intelligence, and the future, no less than the past, would be present to its eyes.
Pàgina 9 - LIFE OF DR. JOHNSON; BY THE RIGHT HON. JC CROKER, Incorporating his Tour to the Hebrides, and accompanied by the Commentaries of all preceding Editors: with numerous additional Notes and Illustrative Anecdotes; to which are added Two Supplementary Volumes of Anecdotes by HAWKINS, Fiozzi,
Pàgina 289 - from our natural philosophy. The great authority of Bacon is usually adduced on this subject. " The handling of final causes," says he, "mixed with the rest in physical inquiries, hath intercepted the severe and diligent inquiry of all real and physical causes, and given men the occasion to stay upon these satisfactory and specious causes, to the great arrest and prejudice of farther discovery.
Pàgina 140 - going on in the same direction since the beginning of the history of the world. But the restoration is in the sequel as complete as the derangement; and in the mean time the disturbance never attains a sufficient amount seriously to alter the adaptations of the system.* The same examination of the subject by which
Pàgina 147 - they continue opaque ; or all they be changed into opaque ones, while he continued unchanged: I do not think explicable by mere natural causes, but am forced to ascribe it to the counsel and contrivance of a voluntary Agent.