The Inverted Scheme of Copernicus: With the Pretended Experiments Upon which His Followers Have Founded Their Hypotheses of Matter and Motion ... Contrasted with the Formation of One World by Divine Power, as it is Revealed in the History of Creation ... to which is Prefixed a Letter to Sir Humphry Davy ...J. Lang, 1822 - 216 頁 |
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... expressed their feelings with a lively concern upon the same subject . The Rev. William Jones , who was justly deemed an or- nament of your society , differed with Newton upon some important points ; and , in the in- troduction to his ...
... expressed their feelings with a lively concern upon the same subject . The Rev. William Jones , who was justly deemed an or- nament of your society , differed with Newton upon some important points ; and , in the in- troduction to his ...
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... expressed my conviction of the fallacy of the Solar System , though in other respects possessing a tolerable portion of candour , would not tolerate my opposition to that : when , how- ever , I came to speak upon the hypotheses upon ...
... expressed my conviction of the fallacy of the Solar System , though in other respects possessing a tolerable portion of candour , would not tolerate my opposition to that : when , how- ever , I came to speak upon the hypotheses upon ...
第 125 頁
... expressed an opinion , that the increased density of the air , on approaching towards the poles , would more naturally account for the irregularity of the pendulum's motion , 1 than the fancied distortion of the globe . Since then 125.
... expressed an opinion , that the increased density of the air , on approaching towards the poles , would more naturally account for the irregularity of the pendulum's motion , 1 than the fancied distortion of the globe . Since then 125.
第 130 頁
... expression of surprise , that his countrymen should have committed such a mistake at Tornea : the thing most surprising , in my opinion , is , that the measures of the different parties should so nearly coincide with each other , unless ...
... expression of surprise , that his countrymen should have committed such a mistake at Tornea : the thing most surprising , in my opinion , is , that the measures of the different parties should so nearly coincide with each other , unless ...
第 135 頁
... expressed himself to this effect . " If it can be discovered that the declinations of what are termed the fixed stars , are manifestly different in June from what they are in December , such difference may be received as an argu- ment ...
... expressed himself to this effect . " If it can be discovered that the declinations of what are termed the fixed stars , are manifestly different in June from what they are in December , such difference may be received as an argu- ment ...
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第 38 頁 - ... these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
第 93 頁 - And I will establish my covenant with you ; neither shall all flesh be cut off" any more by the waters of a flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
第 2 頁 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
第 16 頁 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
第 38 頁 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
第 38 頁 - ... even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one, in the first creation. 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.
第 119 頁 - And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
第 76 頁 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, And set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
第 155 頁 - For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...