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 53
... greatest part of the materials of which this globe is composed being vitrifications , or vitrifiable by fire . It assumed its figure when in a fluid state . The diameter of the earth is about three thousand leagues , and it is situated ...
... greatest part of the materials of which this globe is composed being vitrifications , or vitrifiable by fire . It assumed its figure when in a fluid state . The diameter of the earth is about three thousand leagues , and it is situated ...
Side 89
... greatest degree of cohesion and firm- ness ; and at a time , in which the testaceous matter of marine shells was become changed to a stony substance ; for I have frequently observed in the fissures of lime - stone strata , ' proceeds ...
... greatest degree of cohesion and firm- ness ; and at a time , in which the testaceous matter of marine shells was become changed to a stony substance ; for I have frequently observed in the fissures of lime - stone strata , ' proceeds ...
Side 101
... sur- face . The rind of the earth alone has been penetrated ; the greatest caverns , the deepest mines , do not descend above the sixteenth thou- sandth G 3 sandth part of its diameter . Our judgment , therefore LETTER XII . ΙΟΙ.
... sur- face . The rind of the earth alone has been penetrated ; the greatest caverns , the deepest mines , do not descend above the sixteenth thou- sandth G 3 sandth part of its diameter . Our judgment , therefore LETTER XII . ΙΟΙ.
Side 106
... greatest , and at the same time the most profitable part of natural philosophy . It is the most instructive , and un- questionably the most useful . Yet before we come to treat of the elements in detail , it will be necessary for us to ...
... greatest , and at the same time the most profitable part of natural philosophy . It is the most instructive , and un- questionably the most useful . Yet before we come to treat of the elements in detail , it will be necessary for us to ...
Side 121
... greatest difficulty , and even of the greatest importance of any in physics . J. Bernouilli thinks it owing to the pressure of the atmosphere ; others to the figure of the component particles ; but the generality , with Sir Isaac Newton ...
... greatest difficulty , and even of the greatest importance of any in physics . J. Bernouilli thinks it owing to the pressure of the atmosphere ; others to the figure of the component particles ; but the generality , with Sir Isaac Newton ...
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A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections ... Richard Joseph Sulivan Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1794 |
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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.