The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 sivua |
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... minute seeds or atoms , so small that the corpuscles of vapour , light , and 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 ...
... minute seeds or atoms , so small that the corpuscles of vapour , light , and 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 ...
Sivu 47
... minute particles unity ; sometimes forming new stars by its condensation , and often feeding and regenerating those that are exhausted . Such is a brief survey of the chief theories of the primitive or elementary substance of matter ...
... minute particles unity ; sometimes forming new stars by its condensation , and often feeding and regenerating those that are exhausted . Such is a brief survey of the chief theories of the primitive or elementary substance of matter ...
Sivu 50
... minute to be detected by any operation of the senses . Of the shape or magnitude of these particles we know nothing : and even their solidity and impenetrability , as I then observed , is rather an assumption for the purpose of avoiding ...
... minute to be detected by any operation of the senses . Of the shape or magnitude of these particles we know nothing : and even their solidity and impenetrability , as I then observed , is rather an assumption for the purpose of avoiding ...
Sivu 53
... minute and miscroscopic animals , that many of these are as complicated in their structure as the elephant or the whale . GRAVITATION is the common basis upon which all the preceding properties are built , except passivity ; the great ...
... minute and miscroscopic animals , that many of these are as complicated in their structure as the elephant or the whale . GRAVITATION is the common basis upon which all the preceding properties are built , except passivity ; the great ...
Sivu 58
... minute and elaborate divi- sion of the particles of this material that we can give to the attraction of gravitation a predominancy . The same result occurs in the homogeneous particles of oil . And hence , if we divide its particles by ...
... minute and elaborate divi- sion of the particles of this material that we can give to the attraction of gravitation a predominancy . The same result occurs in the homogeneous particles of oil . And hence , if we divide its particles by ...
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