Nature of the material worldLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834 - Natural history |
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... gravitation or aggregation . * The materiality of light has been attempted to be proved by its effects on solutions of muriate of ammonia and prussiate of potash , when placed in a situation to be crystallised . The crystallisation of ...
... gravitation or aggregation . * The materiality of light has been attempted to be proved by its effects on solutions of muriate of ammonia and prussiate of potash , when placed in a situation to be crystallised . The crystallisation of ...
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... gravitation ; which , however , may easily be reduced to four , since extension , density , and impenetrability , may be comprehended under the general term cohesibility . PASSIVITY , inertia , or vis inertie , is the tendency in a body ...
... gravitation ; which , however , may easily be reduced to four , since extension , density , and impenetrability , may be comprehended under the general term cohesibility . PASSIVITY , inertia , or vis inertie , is the tendency in a body ...
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... Gravitation , is the attraction by which bodies of all kinds act upon each other , with a force regulated by the aggregate proportion of their respective quantities of matter , and decreasing as the squares of the distances increase ...
... Gravitation , is the attraction by which bodies of all kinds act upon each other , with a force regulated by the aggregate proportion of their respective quantities of matter , and decreasing as the squares of the distances increase ...
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... gravitation ranges it is impossible to determine ; there can be little doubt , however , that it extends from one fixed star to another , although its effects have not yet been calculated . It may possibly influence the progressive ...
... gravitation ranges it is impossible to determine ; there can be little doubt , however , that it extends from one fixed star to another , although its effects have not yet been calculated . It may possibly influence the progressive ...
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... gravitation . I have already observed that , owing to its passivity , or VIS INERTIÆ , matter has a tendency to persevere in any given state , whether of motion or of rest , till opposed by some exterior power ; and that the path it ...
... gravitation . I have already observed that , owing to its passivity , or VIS INERTIÆ , matter has a tendency to persevere in any given state , whether of motion or of rest , till opposed by some exterior power ; and that the path it ...
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action already observed animal animal and vegetable appears Aristotle arteries atmosphere atoms attraction becomes birds blood bodies bones called capable carbonic acid cause chiefly chyle common compound conceived consequence consists constitutes cotyledon curious cuticle Cuvier degree denominated distinct doctrine earth elementary Empedocles Epicurus equally eternal existence fibres fishes fluid formation gastric juice gneiss gravitation harmony heat heavens hence infinite divisibility insects instances kind lacteals lecture less light lime Lucretius lungs manner mass material matter means mineral minute motion muscles muscular nature occasionally organs origin oxyde oxygene particles peculiar perfect perhaps perpetually petrifactions phænomena Phil philosophers plants Plato possess present principle produced properties proportion putrefaction Pythagoras quadrupeds radicles rocks secernent secreted seeds skin solid species stomach substance supposed surface theory thing thrown traced Trans tribes vapour variety various veins vessels visible whence whole worms zoophytes Ζεύς
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Page 40 - From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Page 18 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 185 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...
Page 20 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Page 60 - While the Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages : But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them would be changed.
Page 150 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Page 18 - Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind...
Page 40 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Page 341 - Look round our world; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbour to embrace.
Page 87 - ... attract each other directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance.