A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France, Volum 1T. Becket, 1794 |
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Side xviii
... clouds --- the elevation of the vapours in the atmosphere ascer tained . LETTER XXVI . Cause of the increase and decrease of rivers --- Origin of glaciers --- prevented from perpetual accumulation by the internal heat of the earth , and ...
... clouds --- the elevation of the vapours in the atmosphere ascer tained . LETTER XXVI . Cause of the increase and decrease of rivers --- Origin of glaciers --- prevented from perpetual accumulation by the internal heat of the earth , and ...
Side 152
... , let us sup- pose for a moment an insulated point in the midst of the high regions of the atmosphere , and set- ting aside the idea of all mountains , suppose it as as the clouds which float in the air . The 152 LETTER XIV .
... , let us sup- pose for a moment an insulated point in the midst of the high regions of the atmosphere , and set- ting aside the idea of all mountains , suppose it as as the clouds which float in the air . The 152 LETTER XIV .
Side 153
... clouds which float in the air . The more a medium is diaphanous , the less of heat must it receive from the direct action of the sun . The facility with which a very transparent body gives passage to the rays , shews it is with ...
... clouds which float in the air . The more a medium is diaphanous , the less of heat must it receive from the direct action of the sun . The facility with which a very transparent body gives passage to the rays , shews it is with ...
Side 159
... clouds , the rays of the sun were more warm than when it was serene . As exhalations of all kinds , says he , are less considerable in winter than in summer , this deficiency may in a great measure account for the small degree of heat ...
... clouds , the rays of the sun were more warm than when it was serene . As exhalations of all kinds , says he , are less considerable in winter than in summer , this deficiency may in a great measure account for the small degree of heat ...
Side 201
... clouds , where they are con- densed and suspènded in the form of clouds . Beyond this middle region , the vapours rise , but cease to be visible , except when a part of the cold stratum seems to be pushed back to- wards the surface of ...
... clouds , where they are con- densed and suspènded in the form of clouds . Beyond this middle region , the vapours rise , but cease to be visible , except when a part of the cold stratum seems to be pushed back to- wards the surface of ...
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Side 50 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Side 47 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Side 108 - While the 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.
Side 107 - 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 one in the first Creation.
Side 108 - 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 817 Particles in the Beginning. And therefore, that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in the various Separations and new Associations and Motions of these permanent Particles...
Side 107 - It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable moveable particles ; of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions 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...
Side 114 - Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues, or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great Part of the Phenomena of Nature?
Side 108 - 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 various Separations and new Associations and Motions of these permanent Particles; compound Bodies being apt to break, not in the midst of solid Particles, but where those Particles are laid together, and only touch in a few Points.
Side 313 - But such a personification of "force" is a remnant of barbaric thought, in no wise sanctioned by physical science. When astronomy speaks of two planets as attracting each other with a " force " which varies directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances...
Side 115 - Forms of Things, but as general Laws of Nature, by which the Things themselves are form'd; their Truth appearing to us by Phaenomena, though their Causes be not yet discover'd.