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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... present occupy , as president of one of the most learned societies in the world , I naturally suppose you must feel a lively interest in whatever tends to the advance- ment of science in general ; but more particu- larly of those ...
... present occupy , as president of one of the most learned societies in the world , I naturally suppose you must feel a lively interest in whatever tends to the advance- ment of science in general ; but more particu- larly of those ...
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... present . It is somewhat remarkable , that those who revived the Solar System , should have adopt- ed without hesitation , and without exami- nation , Ptolemy's system of the distances of the heavenly bodies ; while at the same time ...
... present . It is somewhat remarkable , that those who revived the Solar System , should have adopt- ed without hesitation , and without exami- nation , Ptolemy's system of the distances of the heavenly bodies ; while at the same time ...
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... present , working in all things in heaven and in earth ; and so do even the poor Indians at this day : but modern refinements upon , what are termed , SECOND CAUSES , have a direct tendency to banish all such ideas from the human mind ...
... present , working in all things in heaven and in earth ; and so do even the poor Indians at this day : but modern refinements upon , what are termed , SECOND CAUSES , have a direct tendency to banish all such ideas from the human mind ...
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... . There is EVERY REASON to be- lieve , that the nucleus of the present comet is nothing more than a CONGLOMERATION OF VAPOURS of very little density , so little per- haps as to be transparent . Whether this be the xxvii.
... . There is EVERY REASON to be- lieve , that the nucleus of the present comet is nothing more than a CONGLOMERATION OF VAPOURS of very little density , so little per- haps as to be transparent . Whether this be the xxvii.
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... present to you , is appro- priated to an exposition of the false bases upon which it rests . I might have extended my comments upon it to the size of a large volume ; but it is fighting with shadows , and I have no wish either to take ...
... present to you , is appro- priated to an exposition of the false bases upon which it rests . I might have extended my comments upon it to the size of a large volume ; but it is fighting with shadows , and I have no wish either to take ...
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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...