Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers].John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1853 - 356 páginas |
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... living Herschel when he speaks of the discoveries of Struve , Bessel , and Henderson , as among the fairest flowers of civilization . They surely justify , as he says , " the vast expenditure of time and talent which have led up to them ...
... living Herschel when he speaks of the discoveries of Struve , Bessel , and Henderson , as among the fairest flowers of civilization . They surely justify , as he says , " the vast expenditure of time and talent which have led up to them ...
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... living professor , M. Plateau , of Ghent . Divested of technical terms , the experiment was nearly as follows : -Placing a mixture of water and alcohol in a glass box , and therein a small quantity of olive oil of density precisely ...
... living professor , M. Plateau , of Ghent . Divested of technical terms , the experiment was nearly as follows : -Placing a mixture of water and alcohol in a glass box , and therein a small quantity of olive oil of density precisely ...
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... living generation , in connexion with the history of our planet . The aqueous rocks , taken in their details , are a vast number . Geologists , however , group them in formations or systems , partly with reference to their lithological ...
... living generation , in connexion with the history of our planet . The aqueous rocks , taken in their details , are a vast number . Geologists , however , group them in formations or systems , partly with reference to their lithological ...
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... living creatures have been concerned in the production of limestone , then living creatures must have existed in the time of this formation , as it includes several beds of that kind of rock . ' To the same purpose is the fact of ...
... living creatures have been concerned in the production of limestone , then living creatures must have existed in the time of this formation , as it includes several beds of that kind of rock . ' To the same purpose is the fact of ...
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... and about five hundred species have been ascertained . The living plants of our own era are at least 120,000 , and it is difficult to suppose the flora of that remote age to have been so much more limited . LAND PLANTS AND ANIMALS . 53.
... and about five hundred species have been ascertained . The living plants of our own era are at least 120,000 , and it is difficult to suppose the flora of that remote age to have been so much more limited . LAND PLANTS AND ANIMALS . 53.
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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...