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... positions of the different layers and crusts of the earth , and describes the alterations which have taken place and are still taking place from the ac- tion of water , of heat , and of the great energies of na- ture . The distinction ...
... positions of the different layers and crusts of the earth , and describes the alterations which have taken place and are still taking place from the ac- tion of water , of heat , and of the great energies of na- ture . The distinction ...
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... position in the heavens was predicted ; and the greatest deviation between its predicted and actual return was in no case more than four days - according to the prediction of some mathematicians it was much less . Now when it is ...
... position in the heavens was predicted ; and the greatest deviation between its predicted and actual return was in no case more than four days - according to the prediction of some mathematicians it was much less . Now when it is ...
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... positions and distances . Whence we may conclude that matter , which seems to us the most inert , is the subject of ceaseless change , ceaseless activity . CHAP . III . HARDNESS - TOUGHNESS - DUCTILITY , CHAP . II . 19 PROPERTIES OF ...
... positions and distances . Whence we may conclude that matter , which seems to us the most inert , is the subject of ceaseless change , ceaseless activity . CHAP . III . HARDNESS - TOUGHNESS - DUCTILITY , CHAP . II . 19 PROPERTIES OF ...
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... position depend entirely on the nature of the substance . This division having been continued in all directions where it is possible , a nucleus is at last obtained , and all subsequent division will only diminish the bulk with- out ...
... position depend entirely on the nature of the substance . This division having been continued in all directions where it is possible , a nucleus is at last obtained , and all subsequent division will only diminish the bulk with- out ...
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... position of the parti- cles . This conception of polarity , which we see exemplified on a great scale in the magnetic needle , is forced upon us by the phenomena to which we have referred , and must be considered as one of the most ...
... position of the parti- cles . This conception of polarity , which we see exemplified on a great scale in the magnetic needle , is forced upon us by the phenomena to which we have referred , and must be considered as one of the most ...
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Page 16 - ... it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces — no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made...
Page 15 - All these things being consider'd, it seems probable to me, that God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them...
Page 359 - Every ray of light in its passage through any refracting surface, is put into a certain transient constitution or state; which, in the progress of the ray, returns at equal intervals, and disposes the ray at every return to be easily transmitted through the next refracting surface ; and between the returns to be easily reflected by it.
Page 280 - The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion.
Page 281 - ... greatest in the last, the particles have a motion round their own axes, with different velocities, the particles of elastic fluids moving with the greatest quickness ; and that in...
Page 360 - ... hot; that the vibrations thus excited are propagated in the refracting or reflecting medium or substance, much after the manner that vibrations are propagated in the air for causing sound, and move faster than the rays so as to overtake them...
Page 91 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Page 16 - Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages: But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed. Water and Earth composed of old worn Particles and Fragments of Particles, would not be of the same Nature and Texture now, with Water and Earth composed of entire Particles, in the Beginning. And therefore that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in the...
Page 281 - It seems possible to account for all the phenomena of heat, if it be supposed that in solids the particles are in a constant state of vibratory motion, the particles of the hottest bodies moving with the greatest velocity and through the greatest space ; that in...
Page 490 - ... some of those innumerable beautiful productions it casts up with lavish prodigality, but whose acquisition can be regarded as no diminution of the treasures that remain.