Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural TheologyH.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1862 - 328 pages |
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... Mechanical Laws X. The Law of Gravitation XI . The Laws of Motion XII . Friction • 180 . 184 198 . 205 RELIGIOUS VIEWS BOOK III . 216 I. The Creator of the Physical World is the Governor of the Moral World II . On the Vastness of the ...
... Mechanical Laws X. The Law of Gravitation XI . The Laws of Motion XII . Friction • 180 . 184 198 . 205 RELIGIOUS VIEWS BOOK III . 216 I. The Creator of the Physical World is the Governor of the Moral World II . On the Vastness of the ...
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... mechanical combination might not so readily be allowed to be a manifestly worthy aim of a Creating Wisdom . The former branch of our argument may therefore be best suited to introduce to us the Deity as the institutor of Laws of Nature ...
... mechanical combination might not so readily be allowed to be a manifestly worthy aim of a Creating Wisdom . The former branch of our argument may therefore be best suited to introduce to us the Deity as the institutor of Laws of Nature ...
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... mechanical inconvenience , much longer days than we have . But the terrestrial day , and consequently the length of the cycle of light and darkness , being what it is , we find various parts of the constitution both of animals and ...
... mechanical inconvenience , much longer days than we have . But the terrestrial day , and consequently the length of the cycle of light and darkness , being what it is , we find various parts of the constitution both of animals and ...
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... mechanical problem to solve , in order that we may adjust the one to the other . And the same adjustment , the same result of a comparison of quantities , manifests itself in the relation which the forces of the organic world bear to ...
... mechanical problem to solve , in order that we may adjust the one to the other . And the same adjustment , the same result of a comparison of quantities , manifests itself in the relation which the forces of the organic world bear to ...
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... be 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.
... be 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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