Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural TheologyH.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1862 - 328 pages |
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... conceived to be certainly known ; and hundreds of observers , in all parts of the world , are daily employed in determining , with additional accuracy , the arbitrary magnitudes which these laws involve . The inquiries in which the ...
... conceived to be certainly known ; and hundreds of observers , in all parts of the world , are daily employed in determining , with additional accuracy , the arbitrary magnitudes which these laws involve . The inquiries in which the ...
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... conceive the solar system so adjusted that the year should be longer or shorter than it actually is . We can imagine the earth to revolve round the sun at a distance greater or less than that which it at present has , all the forces of ...
... conceive the solar system so adjusted that the year should be longer or shorter than it actually is . We can imagine the earth to revolve round the sun at a distance greater or less than that which it at present has , all the forces of ...
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... round the sun ? This could be no otherwise , as we conceive , than by design and appointment . We are left therefore with this manifest adjustment " before us , of two parts of the universe 26 TERRESTRIAL ADAPTATIONS .
... round the sun ? This could be no otherwise , as we conceive , than by design and appointment . We are left therefore with this manifest adjustment " before us , of two parts of the universe 26 TERRESTRIAL ADAPTATIONS .
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... conceive , be traced in the amount of some of the quantities which determine the course of events in the * Rapports du Physique et du Moral de l'Homme , ii . 371 . • organic world ; and especially in the amount of D 2 MASS OF THE EARTH ...
... conceive , be traced in the amount of some of the quantities which determine the course of events in the * Rapports du Physique et du Moral de l'Homme , ii . 371 . • organic world ; and especially in the amount of D 2 MASS OF THE EARTH ...
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... conceived that this operation must require a very considerable mechanical force ; for the fluid must be sustained as if it were a single column reaching to the top of the tree . The division into minute MASS OF THE EARTH . 37.
... conceived that this operation must require a very considerable mechanical force ; for the fluid must be sustained as if it were a single column reaching to the top of the tree . The division into minute MASS OF THE EARTH . 37.
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