Nature, Том 4Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1871 |
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... letter to NATURE of April the 27th , says : " The fundamental laws of growth , reproduction , in- heritance , & c . , are so closely similar throughout the whole organic kingdom that the means by which the gemmules ( assuming for the ...
... letter to NATURE of April the 27th , says : " The fundamental laws of growth , reproduction , in- heritance , & c . , are so closely similar throughout the whole organic kingdom that the means by which the gemmules ( assuming for the ...
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... letter of " A. R. H. , " I have now only to reply to Mr. Hyde Clarke's letter , in which he says I should find it difficult in my derivation of " Britannia " and " tin " " to explain on the same basis the conformable names of the ...
... letter of " A. R. H. , " I have now only to reply to Mr. Hyde Clarke's letter , in which he says I should find it difficult in my derivation of " Britannia " and " tin " " to explain on the same basis the conformable names of the ...
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... Letter to Mr. John Stanhope , from Sir Geo . Buck : Earl Stanhope , President S.A. - Sir James Tyrrell cleared ... LETTERS TO THE EDITOR : - Pangenesis . - Dr . LIONEL S. BEALE , F.R.S .; A. C RANYARD , F.R.A.S. • Noises at Sea off ...
... Letter to Mr. John Stanhope , from Sir Geo . Buck : Earl Stanhope , President S.A. - Sir James Tyrrell cleared ... LETTERS TO THE EDITOR : - Pangenesis . - Dr . LIONEL S. BEALE , F.R.S .; A. C RANYARD , F.R.A.S. • Noises at Sea off ...
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... letter from Dr. G. F. Burder in reply to a previous correspondent , who had sent a description , with an illustration , of a Daylight Aurora observed by him , wherein he made the following statement : - But auroral arcs , as far as I ...
... letter from Dr. G. F. Burder in reply to a previous correspondent , who had sent a description , with an illustration , of a Daylight Aurora observed by him , wherein he made the following statement : - But auroral arcs , as far as I ...
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... letter in reply to M. Delaunay , which was printed in your journal for July 1870 , six months before the lecture was delivered , and which also appeared about the same time in the Philosophical Magazine and the Geological Magazine . In ...
... letter in reply to M. Delaunay , which was printed in your journal for July 1870 , six months before the lecture was delivered , and which also appeared about the same time in the Philosophical Magazine and the Geological Magazine . In ...
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Стр. 268 - 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.
Стр. 268 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Стр. 260 - ... shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Стр. 264 - I am purposing them, to be considered of and examined, an account of a philosophical discovery which induced me to the making of the said telescope ; and I doubt not but will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument ; being in my judgment the oddest, if not the most considerable detection which hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature.
Стр. 263 - Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
Стр. 260 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Стр. 293 - But expectation is permissible where belief is not; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man may recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter.
Стр. 30 - If we consider the heavens, the work of his fingers, the moon and the stars which he has ordained...
Стр. 198 - I2mo. With Illustrations. Cloth, $2.00. " The present volume is for the most part a record of bodily action, written partly to preserve to myself the memory of strong and joyous hours, and partly for the pleasure of those who find exhilaration in descriptions associated with mountain-life.
Стр. 268 - ... have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own, we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving about through space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this Earth, one such stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation.