More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the ChristianChatto and Windus, 1876 - 294 páginas |
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... have thus obtained certain general results which give us an approximate idea of the different materials which compose what is called the crust of the earth . In those portions of its surface , which do not rise 48 MORE WORLDS THAN ONE .
... have thus obtained certain general results which give us an approximate idea of the different materials which compose what is called the crust of the earth . In those portions of its surface , which do not rise 48 MORE WORLDS THAN ONE .
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... results adds great weight to the conclusion which Mr. Hopkins had previously deduced from theoretical considerations . From the present amount of what astronomers call the precession of the equinoctial points , arising from the nutation ...
... results adds great weight to the conclusion which Mr. Hopkins had previously deduced from theoretical considerations . From the present amount of what astronomers call the precession of the equinoctial points , arising from the nutation ...
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... result is quite incompatible with one of the volcanic theories which we have mentioned , as the fluid mass of the Earth is too remote from its surface to be forced out by the pressure of steam generated by means of water descending from ...
... result is quite incompatible with one of the volcanic theories which we have mentioned , as the fluid mass of the Earth is too remote from its surface to be forced out by the pressure of steam generated by means of water descending from ...
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... results of so partial a survey , there has been founded a startling generalization . The in- tellectual races , if they did exist , must have lived at a distance from the ferocious animals that may have occupied the seas and the jungles ...
... results of so partial a survey , there has been founded a startling generalization . The in- tellectual races , if they did exist , must have lived at a distance from the ferocious animals that may have occupied the seas and the jungles ...
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... result of catastrophes like these , the future of geology , even if restricted to existing continents and islands , may be pregnant with startling discoveries ; and the remains of intellectual races may be found beneath as well as above ...
... result of catastrophes like these , the future of geology , even if restricted to existing continents and islands , may be pregnant with startling discoveries ; and the remains of intellectual races may be found beneath as well as above ...
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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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