 | Thomas Green Fessenden - American poetry - 1806 - 320 pages
...imagined that the internal part (of the earth) might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specifick gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with;...a shell, capable of being broken and disordered by any violent movements of the fluid on which it rested. And as air has been compressed by art so as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...solid to the centre. I therefore imagined, that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we...violent movements of the fluid on which it rested. Am! as air has been compressed by art so as to be twice as dense as water, in which case, if such air... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1831 - 314 pages
...imagined that the internal parts might he a fluid tsore dense, and of a greater specific gravity thun any of the solids we are acquainted with ; which therefore...swim in or upon that fluid. Thus the surface of the glohe would he a shell, capahle of hsing hroken and disordered hy the violent movement* of fluid on... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Booksellers and bookselling - 1837 - 300 pages
...of the solids we are acquainted Then pour in suddenly the ocean To add eclat to our explosion ; — with ; which, therefore, might swim in or upon that...a shell, capable of being broken and disordered by any violent movements of the fluid on which it rested. And as air has been compressed by art so as... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Booksellers and bookselling - 1837 - 298 pages
...solids we are acquainted Then pour in suddenly the ocean • \ To add eclat to one explosion ; — with; which, therefore, might swim in or upon that...be a shell, capable of being broken and disordered tiy any violent movements of the fluid on which it rested. And as air has been compressed by art so... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Autobiographical memory - 1837 - 356 pages
...solid at the centre. I therefore imagined that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with j which therefore might swim in or upon that fluid* Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 1840 - 342 pages
...solid at the centre. I therefore imagined that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we...broken and disordered by the violent movements of the nuid on which it rested. And as air has been compressed by art so as to be twice as dense as water,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 790 pages
...solid to the centre. I therefore imagined, that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we...compressed by art so as to be twice as dense as water, and as we know not yet the degree of density to which air may be compressed, and M. Amontons caleulated... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 788 pages
...solid to the centre. I therefore imagined, that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we...compressed by art so as to be twice as dense as water, and as we know not yet the degree of density to which air may be compressed, and M. Amontons calculated... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...solid at the centre. I therefore imagined that the internal parts might he a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we...swim in or upon that fluid. Thus the surface of the glohe would he a shell, capahle of heing hroken and disordered hy the violent movements of the fluid... | |
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Such changes in the superficial parts of the globe seemed to me unlikely to happen, if the earth were solid at the centre. I therefore imagined that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids... 
