The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 sivua |
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Sivu 39
... heat from the sun . Thus emanating , he conceived it to be the immediate region or reservoir of ideas or intellectual forms , of the archetypes or patterns of things , subsisting by themselves as real beings -- rà Övтws Övrα - in this ...
... heat from the sun . Thus emanating , he conceived it to be the immediate region or reservoir of ideas or intellectual forms , of the archetypes or patterns of things , subsisting by themselves as real beings -- rà Övтws Övrα - in this ...
Sivu 44
... heat . We can , hence , it is said , form no conception of perfect solidity ; and every phenomenon in nature appears to disprove its existence . The minutest cor- puscle ' we can operate upon is still capable of a minuter division , and ...
... heat . We can , hence , it is said , form no conception of perfect solidity ; and every phenomenon in nature appears to disprove its existence . The minutest cor- puscle ' we can operate upon is still capable of a minuter division , and ...
Sivu 45
... heat are compounds of them ; and so solid , that they cannot possibly be broken or abraded by any concussion or violence whatever . The express figure of these primary atoms is various : there are round , square , pointed , jagged , as ...
... heat are compounds of them ; and so solid , that they cannot possibly be broken or abraded by any concussion or violence whatever . The express figure of these primary atoms is various : there are round , square , pointed , jagged , as ...
Sivu 47
... Heat . " It is a doctrine , also , peculiarly coincident with Dr. Herschel's recent theory of nebulæ , or milky ways in the heavens , which , contrary to his own earlier opinions , and those of former astronomers , who ascribed such ...
... Heat . " It is a doctrine , also , peculiarly coincident with Dr. Herschel's recent theory of nebulæ , or milky ways in the heavens , which , contrary to his own earlier opinions , and those of former astronomers , who ascribed such ...
Sivu 48
... heat or fire , mankind are just as uninformed now as they were then . In the process , however , of destroying these supposed elements , chemistry has occasionally seemed to detect others ; and hence , instead of air , fire , earth ...
... heat or fire , mankind are just as uninformed now as they were then . In the process , however , of destroying these supposed elements , chemistry has occasionally seemed to detect others ; and hence , instead of air , fire , earth ...
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