Caloric: Its Mechanical, Chemical, and Vital Agencies in the Phenomena of Nature,W. Pickering, 1843 - Всего страниц: 1100 |
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... elements , but as a universal and self active principle , which they considered as identical with exist- B ence or being . It has been amply proved by BOOK I Page PRELIMINARY CHAPTER, being a Synopsis of the Work 1-46.
... elements , but as a universal and self active principle , which they considered as identical with exist- B ence or being . It has been amply proved by BOOK I Page PRELIMINARY CHAPTER, being a Synopsis of the Work 1-46.
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... not matter , they reject the evi- dence of their senses , subvert the foundation of all knowledge , and pave the way to universal scepticism . keeps the particles of solids , liquids , and gases 8 OBJECTIONS ANSWERED .
... not matter , they reject the evi- dence of their senses , subvert the foundation of all knowledge , and pave the way to universal scepticism . keeps the particles of solids , liquids , and gases 8 OBJECTIONS ANSWERED .
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... universal system of nature would be a motionless mass of inert and chaotic matter . It also follows , that every thing in nature is composed of two descriptions of matter , the one essentially active , and the other passive ; as ...
... universal system of nature would be a motionless mass of inert and chaotic matter . It also follows , that every thing in nature is composed of two descriptions of matter , the one essentially active , and the other passive ; as ...
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... universal chemistry , are surpassed only by those which wheel the planets through their orbits . For example , we are informed by Captain Burnes , that during the Cutch earthquake of 1819 , the Delta of the Indus was elevated about ten ...
... universal chemistry , are surpassed only by those which wheel the planets through their orbits . For example , we are informed by Captain Burnes , that during the Cutch earthquake of 1819 , the Delta of the Indus was elevated about ten ...
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... universal Science of Ontology , or of whatever exists . * It also enables us to comprehend why the distances of the planets from each other augment in nearly definite ratios , from Mercury to Uranus ; why they increase in magnitude ( if ...
... universal Science of Ontology , or of whatever exists . * It also enables us to comprehend why the distances of the planets from each other augment in nearly definite ratios , from Mercury to Uranus ; why they increase in magnitude ( if ...
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Стр. 480 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Стр. ii - Thus calmly spake the venerable Sage, " 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, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air.
Стр. 259 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Стр. 468 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine Sun, the Godhead, who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
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.
Стр. 20 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Стр. 508 - 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. 474 - The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.
Стр. 16 - I wish we could derive the rest of the phenomena of Nature by the same kind of reasoning from mechanical principles, for I am induced by many reasons to suspect that they...
Стр. 161 - And to shew that I do not take Gravity for an essential Property of Bodies, I have added one Question concerning its Cause, chusing to propose it by way of a Question, because I am not yet satisfied about it for want of Experiments.