Astronomy and General Physics: Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, Volum 3,Part 4H.G. Bohn, 1852 - 328 pàgines |
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... less closely approaching to that here treated . It may , therefore , be not superfluous to say that the Author of the following pages believes that he has not borrowed any of his views or illustrations from recent English writers on ...
... less closely approaching to that here treated . It may , therefore , be not superfluous to say that the Author of the following pages believes that he has not borrowed any of his views or illustrations from recent English writers on ...
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... less known , and probably still more complex , than those which rule the weather , each of the powers on which such move- ments depend has its peculiar laws of action , and these are as universal and as invariable as the law by which a ...
... less known , and probably still more complex , than those which rule the weather , each of the powers on which such move- ments depend has its peculiar laws of action , and these are as universal and as invariable as the law by which a ...
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... less abstract and technical , than in the other division of the subject . Moreover , in this case , men have no difficulty in recognising as desirable the end which is answered by such adaptations , and they therefore the more readily ...
... less abstract and technical , than in the other division of the subject . Moreover , in this case , men have no difficulty in recognising as desirable the end which is answered by such adaptations , and they therefore the more readily ...
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... less and in the living world ; where creatures are con- structed on a certain plan , or a certain scale , and this plan or this scale is exactly the single one which is suited to their place on the earth ; where it was neces- sary for ...
... less and in the living world ; where creatures are con- structed on a certain plan , or a certain scale , and this plan or this scale is exactly the single one which is suited to their place on the earth ; where it was neces- sary for ...
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... less than that which it at present has , all the forces of the system remaining unaltered . If the earth were removed towards the centre by about one - eighth of its distance , the year would be diminished by about a month ; and in the ...
... less than that which it at present has , all the forces of the system remaining unaltered . If the earth were removed towards the centre by about one - eighth of its distance , the year would be diminished by about a month ; and in the ...
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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
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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.