The World Machine: The First Phase; the Cosmic MechanismLongmans, Green, 1907 - 488 sider |
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Side 7
... light - that it is in this manner that sterile planets are fertilised ; that the varied life of these vast globes springs up under appropriate material conditions and in response to simple physical or chemical stimuli ; that the races ...
... light - that it is in this manner that sterile planets are fertilised ; that the varied life of these vast globes springs up under appropriate material conditions and in response to simple physical or chemical stimuli ; that the races ...
Side 9
... light , the horizons have of late been considerably enlarged . I doubt not that a future age will accord to our own something like a clear and somewhat 1 Williams , History of Science , chap . i . detailed conception of the cosmic ...
... light , the horizons have of late been considerably enlarged . I doubt not that a future age will accord to our own something like a clear and somewhat 1 Williams , History of Science , chap . i . detailed conception of the cosmic ...
Side 10
... light and life may one day die out - with it the light and life of the tiny bits of worlds which flutter in circles about him . In no later single work has Humboldt's vast design been realised . Such a work would be a summation , and ...
... light and life may one day die out - with it the light and life of the tiny bits of worlds which flutter in circles about him . In no later single work has Humboldt's vast design been realised . Such a work would be a summation , and ...
Side 28
... light from the sun to Neptune , speeding at 186 thousands of miles per second , requires four hours , to the earth eight minutes , to the nearest star four and a half years . Try to comprehend it who can ! The moon is distant from us by ...
... light from the sun to Neptune , speeding at 186 thousands of miles per second , requires four hours , to the earth eight minutes , to the nearest star four and a half years . Try to comprehend it who can ! The moon is distant from us by ...
Side 29
... light the soul upon its journey to a fairer world . Still undaunted , the mind of man , rising to horizons yet more vast , questions still : What lies beyond ? We may , if we like , picture the emptiness which lies outside our little ...
... light the soul upon its journey to a fairer world . Still undaunted , the mind of man , rising to horizons yet more vast , questions still : What lies beyond ? We may , if we like , picture the emptiness which lies outside our little ...
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Alexandria alpha Centauri ancient angle appear Archimedes Arcturus Aristarchus Aristotle astronomer atoms attraction bodies calculated Canopus centre century CHAPTER circle Cleomedes comets computed conceive conception Coppernicus cosmic cosmos curious dark Democritus Descartes diameter discovery distance doubtless earth endeavour Eratosthenes estimate evident existence fact fixed force Galileo globe gravitation Greek Halley heavens Herschel Hipparchus human hundred idea imagine infinite invention Jupiter Kepler knowledge known Laplace larger least less light light-years mass mathematician mathematics matter measure mechanical meteorites method miles million mind minute moon motion nature nebula Newton observed orbit parallax particles perhaps phenomena philosopher physical planetary planets Poseidonius Principia probably problem Ptolemy reached result revolution revolving round satellites Saturn seems sense simply solar system space speed sphere stars stellar Strabo suppose surface telescope theory things thought thousand tion true truth turn universe Uranus vast wonderful WORLD MACHINE
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Side 450 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Side 36 - 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 313 - We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.
Side 398 - FROM low to high doth dissolution climb, And sink from high to low, along a scale Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail ; A musical but melancholy chime, Which they can hear who meddle not with crime, Nor avarice, nor over-anxious care.
Side 27 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Side 22 - The lords of life, the lords of life, — I saw them pass, In their own guise, Like and unlike, Portly and grim, Use and Surprise, Surface and Dream, Succession swift, and spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of the game Omnipresent without name; — Some to see, some to be guessed, They marched from east to west: Little man, least of all, Among the legs of his guardians tall, Walked about with puzzled look: — Him by the hand dear Nature took; Dearest Nature, strong and...
Side 450 - It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Side 40 - GABRIEL Und schnell und unbegreiflich schnelle Dreht sich umher der Erde Pracht; Es wechselt Paradieseshelle Mit tiefer, schauervoller Nacht; Es schäumt das Meer in breiten Flüssen Am tiefen Grund der Felsen auf, Und Fels und Meer wird fortgerissen In ewig schnellem Sphärenlauf.
Side 255 - In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the method of approximating Series and the Rule for reducing any dignity of any Binomial into such a series.
Side 448 - I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.