Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers].John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1853 - 356 páginas |
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... HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY . Fourth Edition . 8vo . 28s . 9. ROBERTON ON PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASES OF WOMEN . 8vo . 128 . 10. ACTON ON DISEASES OF THE URINARY AND GENERATIVE ORGANS . Second Edition . Svo . 20 . 11. BIRD ON URINARY DEPOSITS ; THEIR ...
... HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY . Fourth Edition . 8vo . 28s . 9. ROBERTON ON PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASES OF WOMEN . 8vo . 128 . 10. ACTON ON DISEASES OF THE URINARY AND GENERATIVE ORGANS . Second Edition . Svo . 20 . 11. BIRD ON URINARY DEPOSITS ; THEIR ...
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... HUMAN EYE . Illustrated in a Series of COLOURED PLATES , from Original Drawings . By JOHN DALRYMPLE , F.R.S. , F.R.C.S. Complete in Nine Fasciculi . Imperial quarto . 20s . each . Half bound morocco , £ 9 . 15s . SURGICAL ANATOMY . A ...
... HUMAN EYE . Illustrated in a Series of COLOURED PLATES , from Original Drawings . By JOHN DALRYMPLE , F.R.S. , F.R.C.S. Complete in Nine Fasciculi . Imperial quarto . 20s . each . Half bound morocco , £ 9 . 15s . SURGICAL ANATOMY . A ...
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... humanity itself ? The idea was of startling novelty and vastness ; yet , when the mind was trained to view it steadily and coolly , it seemed to have much to recom- mend it . It suggested a process of a slow and gradual character , and ...
... humanity itself ? The idea was of startling novelty and vastness ; yet , when the mind was trained to view it steadily and coolly , it seemed to have much to recom- mend it . It suggested a process of a slow and gradual character , and ...
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... human conception . The number visible to the eye is about three thousand ; but when a telescope of small power is directed to the heavens , a 1 Herschel's Address to Astron . Soc . of London , 1841 , and Transactions of that body , vol ...
... human conception . The number visible to the eye is about three thousand ; but when a telescope of small power is directed to the heavens , a 1 Herschel's Address to Astron . Soc . of London , 1841 , and Transactions of that body , vol ...
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... human beings to observe time and tide . The rings are clearly traced ; but it is observed that they are more slightly marked than is the case with their family at the present day , as if the changes of temperature had been within a ...
... human beings to observe time and tide . The rings are clearly traced ; but it is observed that they are more slightly marked than is the case with their family at the present day , as if the changes of temperature had been within a ...
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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...