More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the ChristianChatto and Windus, 1876 - 294 páginas |
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... Theory of the Universe , or Conjectures concerning the Celestial Bodies and their Inhabitants.1 This interesting treatise , as large as that of Fonte- nelle , was translated into English , and went through at least two editions . It was ...
... Theory of the Universe , or Conjectures concerning the Celestial Bodies and their Inhabitants.1 This interesting treatise , as large as that of Fonte- nelle , was translated into English , and went through at least two editions . It was ...
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... Theory of the Universe - a legacy worthy of his name . The Cosmotheoros is a work essentially different from that of Fontenelle . It is didactic and dispas- sionate , deducing by analogical reasoning a variety of views respecting the ...
... Theory of the Universe - a legacy worthy of his name . The Cosmotheoros is a work essentially different from that of Fontenelle . It is didactic and dispas- sionate , deducing by analogical reasoning a variety of views respecting the ...
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... theory has been almost placed beyond a doubt by the discovery , in the same place , of thirty fragments in all , chiefly by M. Gasparis of Naples , and our eminent countryman Mr. Hind , by whom no fewer than ten of these bodies have ...
... theory has been almost placed beyond a doubt by the discovery , in the same place , of thirty fragments in all , chiefly by M. Gasparis of Naples , and our eminent countryman Mr. Hind , by whom no fewer than ten of these bodies have ...
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... theories of volcanoes , ―cer- tain chemical philosophers ascribing them to the decomposition of water and air , which oxidize the solid materials , and generate heat sufficient to melt them , while others believe that the solid crust ...
... theories of volcanoes , ―cer- tain chemical philosophers ascribing them to the decomposition of water and air , which oxidize the solid materials , and generate heat sufficient to melt them , while others believe that the solid crust ...
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... theory of Mr. Hopkins is founded upon better data , and connects the causes of volcanic action with those which explain the general pheno- mena of the elevation of the strata . That the interior of the Earth is in a fluid state by heat ...
... theory of Mr. Hopkins is founded upon better data , and connects the causes of volcanic action with those which explain the general pheno- mena of the elevation of the strata . That the interior of the Earth is in a fluid state by heat ...
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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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