Caloric: Its Mechanical, Chemical, and Vital Agencies in the Phenomena of Nature, Том 1W. Pickering, 1843 |
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Стр. ii - To every form of being is assigned An active principle, howe'er removed From sense and observation ; it subsists In all things, in all natures, in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, and every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air.
Стр. 28 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.
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Стр. 34 - The squares of the periodic times of any two planets are to each other, in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
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