The Anatomy of the Seasons: Weather Guide Book, and Perpetual Companion to the Almanac

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J.R. Bailliere & Company ..., Simpkin & Marshall ..., and J.W. Norie, 1834 - 360 頁

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第 23 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 49 頁 - to shew that I do not take gravity for an essential property of bodies, I have added one question concerning its cause, choosing to propose it by way of a question, because I am not yet satisfied about it for want of experiments.
第 11 頁 - Whereas the main Business of natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these and such like Questions.
第 11 頁 - And though every true Step made in this Philosophy brings us not immediately to the Knowledge of the first Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued.
第 75 頁 - ... were taken or destroyed by the enemy, the rest having either stranded or foundered, or having been burnt by accident, — a striking proof that the dangers of our naval warfare, however great, may be far exceeded by the storm, the hurricane, the shoal, and all the other perils of the deep.
第 75 頁 - ... frigates, and a multitude of smaller vessels. The navies of the other European powers, France, Holland, Spain, and Denmark, were almost annihilated during the same period, so that the aggregate of their losses must have many times exceeded that of Great Britain. In every one of...
第 59 頁 - ... revolution, it is easy to see that in the one case, our year would change its character, producing a far greater irregularity in the distribution of the solar heat : in the other, our satellite must fall to the earth, occasioning a dreadful catastrophe. If the positions of the planetary orbits with respect to that of the earth, were to change much, the planets might sometimes come very near us, and thus increase the effect of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under such circumstances...
第 58 頁 - It has sometimes been maintained by fanciful theorists that the earth is merely a shell, and that the central parts are hollow. All the reasons we can collect appear to be in favour of its being a solid mass, considerably denser than any known rock.
第 9 頁 - ... à une vérité unique dont les autres vérités ne seraient que des traductions différentes. Les sciences seraient alors un labyrinthe immense, mais sans...
第 74 頁 - But the reader must not imagine that the fury of war is more conducive than the peaceful spirit of commercial enterprise to the accumulation of wrecked vessels in the bed of the sea. From an examination of Lloyd's lists, from the year 1793 to the commencement of 1829...

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