 Thus, commencing our investigation by a careful survey of any one bone by itself, a person who is sufficiently master of the laws of organic structure may, as it were, reconstruct the whole animal to which that bone had belonged.  Essay on the Theory of the Earth - Pàgina 103per Georges baron Cuvier - 1818 - 431 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1818 - 500 pàgines
...bones from the teeth. Thus, commencing our investigation by a careful survey of any one bone by itself, a person who is sufficiently master of the laws of...be applied in practice, there is a great number of casts in which our theoretical knowledge' of these relations of forms is not sufficient to guide ui,... | |
 | Henry Fergus - 1833 - 294 pàgines
...bones from the teeth. Thus commencing our investigations by a careful survey of any one bone by itself, a person who is sufficiently master of the laws of...the whole animal to which that bone had belonged. — The smallest fragment of bone, even the most apparently insignificant apophysis, possesses a fixed... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 428 pàgines
...bones from the teeth. Thus, commencing our investigation by a careful survey of any one bone by itself, a person who is sufficiently master of the laws of organic structure, mav, as it were, reconstruct the whole animal to which that bone had belonged. " This principle is... | |
 | Henry Fergus - 1838 - 332 pàgines
...from the teeth. Thus, commencing our investigations by a careful survey of any one bone by itself, a person who is sufficiently master of the laws of...the whole animal to which that bone had belonged. The smallest fragment of bone, even the most apparently insignificant appphysis, possesses a fixed... | |
 | Henry Fergus - 1838 - 332 pàgines
...from the teeth. Thus, commencing our investigations by a careful survey of any one bone by itself, a person who is sufficiently master of the laws of...the whole animal to which that bone had belonged. The smallest fragment of bone, even the most apparently insignificant apophysis, possesses a fixed... | |
 | 1838 - 80 pàgines
...careful survey of any one bone' by itself, a person who is sufficiently master of the laws of organick structure may, as it were, reconstruct the whole animal to which that bone belonged."* We shall now describe very briefly a few of the more remarkable of the extinct animals,... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1851 - 418 pàgines
...bones from the teeth. Thus commencing our investigations by a careful survey of any one bone by itself, a person who is sufficiently master of the laws of...the whole animal to which that bone had belonged." After applying the same principle to animals with hoofs, Cuvier comes to a conclusion even more surprising.... | |
 | 1851 - 592 pàgines
...from the teeth. Thus commencing iour investigations by a careful survey of any one bone by itself, a person who is sufficiently master of the laws of...the whole animal to which that bone had belonged. — The smallest fragment of bone, even the most apparently insignificant apophysis, possesses a fixed... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1851 - 554 pàgines
...bones from the teeth. Thus, commencing our investigation by a careful survey of any one bone by itself, a person who is sufficiently master of the laws of...were, reconstruct the whole animal to which that bone belonged. 44 This principle is sufficiently evident, in its general acceptation, not to require any... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1860 - 400 pàgines
...from the teeth. Thus, commencing our investigations by a careful survey of any one bone by itself, a person who is sufficiently master of the laws of...the whole animal to which that bone had belonged." After applying the same principle to animals with hoofs, Cuvier comes to a conclusion even more surprising.... | |
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