 Whiston fancied that the earth was created from the atmosphere of one comet, and that it was deluged by the tail of another. The heat which remained from its first origin, in his opinion, excited the whole antediluvian population, men and animals, to...  Essay on the Theory of the Earth - Pàgina 58per Georges baron Cuvier - 1818 - 431 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Phillips - 1816 - 222 pàgines
...the whole mass of the globe was dissolved, and the soft paste became penetrated by shells. Whiston fancied that the earth was created from the atmosphere of one comet, and deluged by the tail of another. The great Leibnitz, as well as Descartes, amused his imagination by... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1818 - 500 pàgines
...contained the greatest abundance of rocks, without which they could not have supported themselves. Whiston fancied that the earth was created from the atmosphere...for which they were all drowned in • the deluge, exceptwg the fish, whose passions were apparently less violent. - It is easy to see, that though naturalists... | |
 | 1814 - 684 pàgines
...contained die greatest abundance of rocks, without which they could not have supported themselves. Whiston fancied that the earth was created from the atmosphere...of another. The heat which remained from its first origiB, 'in his opinion, excited the whole antediluvian/ population, population, men and animals, to... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1829 - 528 pàgines
...singular views entertained by men of genius, in the infancy of the science, are those of Whiston, " who fancied that the earth was created from the atmosphere of one comet, and deluged by the tail of another;" and that, for their sins, the antediluvian population were drowned... | |
 | 1829 - 512 pàgines
...singular views entertained by men of genius, in the infancy of the science, are those of Whiston, " who fancied that the earth was created from the atmosphere of one comet, and deluged by the tail of another ;" and that, for their sins, the antediluvian population were drowned... | |
 | William Martin - 1832 - 504 pàgines
...wisest of mankind appear, when attempting to account for the inscrutable actions of the Deity. Whitston fancied that the earth was created from the atmosphere of one comet and deluged by the tail of another. The great Leibnitz, as did also Descartes, conceived the world to be... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 pàgines
...contained the greatest abundance of rocks, without which they could not have supported themselves. Whiston fancied that the earth was created from the atmosphere...fish, whose passions were apparently less violent. Even the great Leibnitz, as well as Descartes, amused his imagination by conceiving the world to be... | |
 | 1844 - 836 pàgines
...could not have supported "hanselves. Whiston fancied that the eartli was created from the inioKphere of one comet, and that it was deluged by the tail of Wothcr. The heat which remained from its first origin, in his "Pinion, excited the whole antediluvian... | |
 | Medical Society of the State of New York (1807- ) - 1859 - 478 pàgines
...Kepler and Buffon, the hypotheses which they respectively supported and promulgated to the world. " 1st. That the earth was created from the atmosphere of one comet and deluged by the tail of another. " 2d. That the world was an extinguished sun, on which the vapors,... | |
 | John Duns - 1863 - 650 pàgines
...was dissolved, and the soft paste became penetrated by shells:" and Winston (1708) might promulgate that "the earth was created from the atmosphere of...comet, and that it was deluged by the tail of another :" these, and many more and even greater absurdities might be stated, and the deluge made responsible... | |
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