Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers]. |
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... kind have been formed in connexion with it . By the joint labours of the two Herschels , the sky has been " gauged " in all directions by the telescope , so as to ascertain the conditions of different parts with respect to the frequency ...
... kind have been formed in connexion with it . By the joint labours of the two Herschels , the sky has been " gauged " in all directions by the telescope , so as to ascertain the conditions of different parts with respect to the frequency ...
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... kind where no such thing was expected - as from Napier's discovery of the logarithms , or , to take an opposite instance , from Smith's ascertainment of the order of rocks - and it is utterly impossible in any way to reckon the benefits ...
... kind where no such thing was expected - as from Napier's discovery of the logarithms , or , to take an opposite instance , from Smith's ascertainment of the order of rocks - and it is utterly impossible in any way to reckon the benefits ...
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... kind , that law was concerned . The work may be said to have been done by the will of God , expressed in the form of the law of gravitation . When we come to consider the motions , and regard them as necessarily results of an impulse ...
... kind , that law was concerned . The work may be said to have been done by the will of God , expressed in the form of the law of gravitation . When we come to consider the motions , and regard them as necessarily results of an impulse ...
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... kind , and attended , as far as M. Plateau's description informs us , by slightly various effects ; but the general reflection which it gives of Laplace's cosmogony is certainly such as to confer upon that theory a strong probability ...
... kind , and attended , as far as M. Plateau's description informs us , by slightly various effects ; but the general reflection which it gives of Laplace's cosmogony is certainly such as to confer upon that theory a strong probability ...
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... kind with regard to the condition of the heat . Had this power continued to act with its full original repulsive energy , the process of agglomeration by attraction could not have gone on . We do not know enough of the laws of heat to ...
... kind with regard to the condition of the heat . Had this power continued to act with its full original repulsive energy , the process of agglomeration by attraction could not have gone on . We do not know enough of the laws of heat to ...
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admitted advance affinity Agassiz America amongst animal kingdom Annelides appear aquatic belemnites birds bivalve body brachiopods brain called carboniferous carnivorous cephalopoda character civilization cloth connexion creation cretaceous Crinoidea crustacea Devonian dicotyledons DISEASES distinct earth eocene example existence external fact faculties favour Fcap feet fishes formation fossils gasteropods genera genus geological globe grade habits herbivorous higher human hypothesis Ichthyosaur idea Illustrations inferior Infusoria insects instances invertebrate kind land language larvæ living mammæ mammalia manner marine matter Medical mental mind mode mollusks naturalists nature observed oolite organic origin peculiar phenomena plants portion Post 8vo present principle produced Professor race regard regions remarkable reptiles resemblance respect rocks saurian says Second Edition Sedgwick seen shells species stirps strata structure superior supposed surface tertiary thecodonts tion trace tribes Trilobites vegetable vertebrata vertebrate whole
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Page lx - Thus, the production of new forms, as shewn in the pages of the geological record, has never been anything more than a new stage of progress in gestation, an event as simply natural, and attended as little by any circumstances of a wonderful or startling kind, as the silent advance of an ordinary mother from one week to another of her pregnancy.
Page 329 - A law presupposes an agent, for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law does nothing, is nothing. The expression, "the law of metallic nature...