Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, Том 2Victoria Institute., 1867 |
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... changes many degrees below the zenith ; therefore , all computations requiring great exactness are founded on zenith distances . Bradley , during his astronomical observations between the years 1726 and 1735 , found , by comparing the ...
... changes many degrees below the zenith ; therefore , all computations requiring great exactness are founded on zenith distances . Bradley , during his astronomical observations between the years 1726 and 1735 , found , by comparing the ...
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... change in the aspect of the heavens is to make the southerly stars appear to recede southward , and those situated ... changes referred to ; but I shall endeavour to show that , small as it is , it is quite suffi- cient to produce them ...
... change in the aspect of the heavens is to make the southerly stars appear to recede southward , and those situated ... changes referred to ; but I shall endeavour to show that , small as it is , it is quite suffi- cient to produce them ...
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... change , which has been determined to a fraction of a second , we can safely proceed with our com- putations , and thus ascertain , with some degree of exactitude , the probable age of any given land . About 3,150 years ago , the site ...
... change , which has been determined to a fraction of a second , we can safely proceed with our com- putations , and thus ascertain , with some degree of exactitude , the probable age of any given land . About 3,150 years ago , the site ...
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... changes . The African rhinoceros is found as far south as the Cape of Good Hope , latitude 34 ° 30'S . , and lions as far north as Algiers , about 36 ° lat . N. The fossil forest of Atanekerdluk , in latitude 70 ° N. ( Green- land ) ...
... changes . The African rhinoceros is found as far south as the Cape of Good Hope , latitude 34 ° 30'S . , and lions as far north as Algiers , about 36 ° lat . N. The fossil forest of Atanekerdluk , in latitude 70 ° N. ( Green- land ) ...
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... change with respect to the stars , which seem explicable only on one of two suppositions - that the ground itself ... changes in the position of the axis . I shall next refer to the lands of the southern hemisphere . The conditions of ...
... change with respect to the stars , which seem explicable only on one of two suppositions - that the ground itself ... changes in the position of the axis . I shall next refer to the lands of the southern hemisphere . The conditions of ...
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Стр. 69 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.18 Darwin always knew that his views would be controversial. A few days before The Origin of Species appeared, Darwin wrote, in a letter to Wallace, 'God knows what...
Стр. 293 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck : And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had ; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Стр. 119 - ... pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends; and that all desirable things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
Стр. 207 - Our observation employed either, about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
Стр. 108 - It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Everyone knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity.
Стр. 84 - If we must compare the eye to an optical instrument, we ought in imagination to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with spaces filled with fluid, and with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing slowly in density, so as to separate into layers of different densities and thicknesses, placed at different distances from each other, and with the surfaces of each layer slowly changing in form. Further, we must suppose that there is...
Стр. 139 - Subduct from any phenomenon such part as is known by previous inductions to be the effect of certain antecedents, and the residue of the phenomenon is the effect of the remaining antecedents.
Стр. 174 - The question of questions for mankind — the problem which underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting than any other — is the ascertainment of the place which Man occupies in nature and of his relations to the universe of things.
Стр. 108 - It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving, and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.
Стр. 125 - If we now suppose this feeling of unity to be taught as a religion, and the whole force of education, of institutions, and of opinion, directed, as it once was in the case of religion, to make every person grow up from infancy surrounded on all sides...