The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 sivua |
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... proportion of informa- tion , which it is my duty to suppose I can at present communicate to them . One of the first inquiries that can ever press upon the mind must relate to the nature of MATTER , and the origin of the world around us ...
... proportion of informa- tion , which it is my duty to suppose I can at present communicate to them . One of the first inquiries that can ever press upon the mind must relate to the nature of MATTER , and the origin of the world around us ...
Sivu 36
... proportion to its subtility , its levity , its activity , its refined ethereal or spiritualized modification of being . Water is as much a compound as any of the earths , yet we have strong reason for believing that for the most part it ...
... proportion to its subtility , its levity , its activity , its refined ethereal or spiritualized modification of being . Water is as much a compound as any of the earths , yet we have strong reason for believing that for the most part it ...
Sivu 38
... proportions of the elements are in certain definite ratios to each other , it is evident that these ratios may be expressed by numbers . " In consequence of which they are so expressed in various places by himself , and by many French ...
... proportions of the elements are in certain definite ratios to each other , it is evident that these ratios may be expressed by numbers . " In consequence of which they are so expressed in various places by himself , and by many French ...
Sivu 40
... proportions so exact , yet so diversified , that forms and numbers may be employed as synonymes or convertible terms , he has ex- hibited so close a coincidence with one of the latest and most surprising dis- coveries of the present day ...
... proportions so exact , yet so diversified , that forms and numbers may be employed as synonymes or convertible terms , he has ex- hibited so close a coincidence with one of the latest and most surprising dis- coveries of the present day ...
Sivu 41
... proportion the oxygen unites with the metal to produce an oxide of one kind , it invariably unites by a multiple or divisor of the same proportion to produce every kind of oxide belonging to the same metal . Thus we have discovered not ...
... proportion the oxygen unites with the metal to produce an oxide of one kind , it invariably unites by a multiple or divisor of the same proportion to produce every kind of oxide belonging to the same metal . Thus we have discovered not ...
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