Astronomy and General Physics: Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, Volum 3,Part 4H.G. Bohn, 1852 - 328 pàgines |
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... Solar System PAGE 126 . 128 II . The Circular Orbits of the Planets round the Sun • . 131 III . The Stability of the Solar System . 136 IV . The Sun in the Centre V. The Satellites . 145 . • 148 VI . The Stability of the Ocean 151 VII ...
... Solar System PAGE 126 . 128 II . The Circular Orbits of the Planets round the Sun • . 131 III . The Stability of the Solar System . 136 IV . The Sun in the Centre V. The Satellites . 145 . • 148 VI . The Stability of the Ocean 151 VII ...
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... system , as they are some- times called , determine the course of events among these bodies ; and the more ... solar system ; the latter to the well - being of the system of organic life by which the earth is occupied . The two portions ...
... system , as they are some- times called , determine the course of events among these bodies ; and the more ... solar system ; the latter to the well - being of the system of organic life by which the earth is occupied . The two portions ...
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... system of causes produces effects compa- ratively steady and uniform ; thus solar and terrestrial heat , air , moisture , and probably many other apparently conflicting agents , join to produce our weather , which never deviates very ...
... system of causes produces effects compa- ratively steady and uniform ; thus solar and terrestrial heat , air , moisture , and probably many other apparently conflicting agents , join to produce our weather , which never deviates very ...
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... solar system so adjusted that the year should be longer or shorter than it actually is . We can imagine the earth to revolve round the sun at a distance greater or less than that which it at present has , all the forces of the system ...
... solar system so adjusted that the year should be longer or shorter than it actually is . We can imagine the earth to revolve round the sun at a distance greater or less than that which it at present has , all the forces of the system ...
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... solar system and the powers of vegetable life . These two things are so related , that one has been made to fit the other . The relation is as clear as that of a watch to a sundial . If a person were to compare the watch with a dial ...
... solar system and the powers of vegetable life . These two things are so related , that one has been made to fit the other . The relation is as clear as that of a watch to a sundial . If a person were to compare the watch with a dial ...
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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.