Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers].John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1853 - 356 páginas |
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... globe of somewhat less than 8000 miles in diameter , being one of a series which revolve at different distances around the sun , and some of which have satellites in like manner revolving around them . The sun , planets , and satellites ...
... globe of somewhat less than 8000 miles in diameter , being one of a series which revolve at different distances around the sun , and some of which have satellites in like manner revolving around them . The sun , planets , and satellites ...
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... globe for the same reason that a dew - drop is so . It is slightly flattened at the poles , as a consequence of rotation on an axis when in a soft state , for the same reason that a mass of clay whirled rapidly round will become of a ...
... globe for the same reason that a dew - drop is so . It is slightly flattened at the poles , as a consequence of rotation on an axis when in a soft state , for the same reason that a mass of clay whirled rapidly round will become of a ...
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... globe of oil , we turn the axis at a slow rate , and thus set the oil - sphere in rotation . " We then presently see the sphere flatten at its poles and swell out at its equator , and thus realize on a small scale an effect which is ...
... globe of oil , we turn the axis at a slow rate , and thus set the oil - sphere in rotation . " We then presently see the sphere flatten at its poles and swell out at its equator , and thus realize on a small scale an effect which is ...
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... globe . They are called elements , or simple substances , because it has hitherto been found im- possible to reduce them into others , wherefore they are presumed to be the primary bases of all matters . It has , indeed , been surmised ...
... globe . They are called elements , or simple substances , because it has hitherto been found im- possible to reduce them into others , wherefore they are presumed to be the primary bases of all matters . It has , indeed , been surmised ...
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... globe ; how much more to disengage the oxygen which is diffused in nearly a proportion of one - half throughout its solids ; and , finally , how much more would be required to cause the whole to become vaporiform , which we may consider ...
... globe ; how much more to disengage the oxygen which is diffused in nearly a proportion of one - half throughout its solids ; and , finally , how much more would be required to cause the whole to become vaporiform , which we may consider ...
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admitted advance affinity Agassiz America amongst animal kingdom Annelides appear aquatic belemnites birds bivalve body brachiopods brain called carboniferous carnivorous cephalopoda character civilization cloth connexion creation cretaceous Crinoidea crustacea Devonian dicotyledons DISEASES distinct earth eocene example existence external fact faculties favour Fcap feet fishes formation fossils gasteropods genera genus geological globe grade habits herbivorous higher human hypothesis Ichthyosaur idea Illustrations inferior Infusoria insects instances invertebrate kind land language larvæ living mammæ mammalia manner marine matter Medical mental mind mode mollusks naturalists nature observed oolite organic origin peculiar phenomena plants portion Post 8vo present principle produced Professor race regard regions remarkable reptiles resemblance respect rocks saurian says Second Edition Sedgwick seen shells species stirps strata structure superior supposed surface tertiary thecodonts tion trace tribes Trilobites vegetable vertebrata vertebrate whole
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Página lx - Thus, the production of new forms, as shewn in the pages of the geological record, has never been anything more than a new stage of progress in gestation, an event as simply natural, and attended as little by any circumstances of a wonderful or startling kind, as the silent advance of an ordinary mother from one week to another of her pregnancy.
Página 329 - A law presupposes an agent, for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law does nothing, is nothing. The expression, "the law of metallic nature...