Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural TheologyH.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1862 - 328 pages |
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... possible to conceive arrangements of our system , according to which all parts of the earth might have the same , or nearly the same , climate . If , for example , we suppose the earth to be a flat disk , or flat ring , like the ring of ...
... possible to conceive arrangements of our system , according to which all parts of the earth might have the same , or nearly the same , climate . If , for example , we suppose the earth to be a flat disk , or flat ring , like the ring of ...
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... possible cases seemed to be exhausted ; and with new resem- blances and differences constructed as if to elude what conjecture might have hit upon , by proceeding from the old ones . Most of those who have any large portion of nature ...
... possible cases seemed to be exhausted ; and with new resem- blances and differences constructed as if to elude what conjecture might have hit upon , by proceeding from the old ones . Most of those who have any large portion of nature ...
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... possible . The main properties of light which are concerned in this arrangement are reflexion and refraction : re- flexion , by which light is reflected and scattered by all objects , and thus comes to the eye from all : and refraction ...
... possible . The main properties of light which are concerned in this arrangement are reflexion and refraction : re- flexion , by which light is reflected and scattered by all objects , and thus comes to the eye from all : and refraction ...
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... established with any design which has a reference to the other parts of the universe . Undoubtedly it is exceedingly possible that these differences of light may operate in some quarter , and 114 TERRESTRIAL ADAPTATIONS .
... established with any design which has a reference to the other parts of the universe . Undoubtedly it is exceedingly possible that these differences of light may operate in some quarter , and 114 TERRESTRIAL ADAPTATIONS .
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... possible for them to work together ? We conceive there can be but one answer ; a most wise and good God . CHAP . XVIII . - Recapitulation . I. IT has been shown in the preceding chapters that . a great number of quantities and laws ...
... possible for them to work together ? We conceive there can be but one answer ; a most wise and good God . CHAP . XVIII . - Recapitulation . I. IT has been shown in the preceding chapters that . a great number of quantities and laws ...
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