More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the ChristianChatto and Windus, 1876 - 294 páginas |
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... Plurality of Worlds , an Essay , I undertook the task , in the belief that it contained sentiments similar to my own , and that I should have the gratification of illustrating and recommending a doctrine which had long been the Creed of ...
... Plurality of Worlds , an Essay , I undertook the task , in the belief that it contained sentiments similar to my own , and that I should have the gratification of illustrating and recommending a doctrine which had long been the Creed of ...
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... arguments in favour of a Plurality of Worlds , and have endeavoured , in the subsequent chapters , to answer the various objections urged against it by the author of the Essay , and to examine the grounds upon which he vi PREFACE .
... arguments in favour of a Plurality of Worlds , and have endeavoured , in the subsequent chapters , to answer the various objections urged against it by the author of the Essay , and to examine the grounds upon which he vi PREFACE .
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... arguments in favour of a Plurality of Worlds , and have endeavoured , in the subsequent chapters , to answer the various objections urged against it by the author of the Essay , and to examine the grounds upon which he vi PREFACE .
... arguments in favour of a Plurality of Worlds , and have endeavoured , in the subsequent chapters , to answer the various objections urged against it by the author of the Essay , and to examine the grounds upon which he vi PREFACE .
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... WORLDS THAN ONE . ΤΗ INTRODUCTION . HERE is no subject within the whole range of knowledge so universally interesting as that of a Plurality of Worlds . It commands the sympathies , and appeals to the judgment of men of all nations , of ...
... WORLDS THAN ONE . ΤΗ INTRODUCTION . HERE is no subject within the whole range of knowledge so universally interesting as that of a Plurality of Worlds . It commands the sympathies , and appeals to the judgment of men of all nations , of ...
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... world , and was entitled Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds . It consisted of five chapters with the following titles : - I. The earth is a planet which turns round its own axis and also round the sun . 2. The Moon is a habitable ...
... world , and was entitled Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds . It consisted of five chapters with the following titles : - I. The earth is a planet which turns round its own axis and also round the sun . 2. The Moon is a habitable ...
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More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian David Brewster Visualização integral - 1856 |
More Worlds Than One, the Creed of The. Philosopher and the Hope of the ... David Brewster Visualização integral - 1862 |
More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian David Brewster Visualização integral - 1854 |
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Admiral Smyth analogy animal appearance argument astronomers atmosphere believe binary systems bodies celestial centre chapter CHATTO Christian cloth extra clouds clusters of stars Coloured comets creation creatures Crown 8vo crust diameter distance doctrine double stars Earth Edited Engravings Essay Essayist existence Facsimile fixed stars force formation globe gravity heavens human Illustrations infinity inhabitants intellectual Jupiter Lord Rosse luminous magnitude Mars mass Mercury millions of miles mind moon motion nature nebulæ nebular hypothesis nebulous matter Neptune objects observed occupied ocean opinion orbit OUIDA period philosopher planetary plurality of worlds Portrait present primary planets probable race reason regions resolved revolving round ring satellites Saturn seen shew sidereal Sir Isaac Sir John Herschel Sir William Herschel Solar system solid space speculation sphere strata sun's suppose surface tails telescope theory tion truth universe Uranus vapour Venus Vols WILKIE COLLINS zodiacal light
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