Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural TheologyH.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1862 - 328 pages |
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... Solar System IV . The Sun in the Centre V. The Satellites • VI . The Stability of the Ocean VII . The Nebular Hypothesis • PAGE 126 . 128 . 131 136 . 145 148 • 151 . 154 VIII . The Existence of a Resisting Medium in the Solar System 164 ...
... Solar System IV . The Sun in the Centre V. The Satellites • VI . The Stability of the Ocean VII . The Nebular Hypothesis • PAGE 126 . 128 . 131 136 . 145 148 • 151 . 154 VIII . The Existence of a Resisting Medium in the Solar System 164 ...
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... system , as they are some- times called , determine the course of events among these bodies ; and the more ... solar system ; the latter to the well - being of the system of organic life by which the earth is occupied . The two portions ...
... system , as they are some- times called , determine the course of events among these bodies ; and the more ... solar system ; the latter to the well - being of the system of organic life by which the earth is occupied . The two portions ...
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... system of causes produces effects compa- ratively steady and uniform ; thus solar and terrestrial heat , air , moisture , and probably many other apparently conflicting agents , join to produce our weather , which never deviates very ...
... system of causes produces effects compa- ratively steady and uniform ; thus solar and terrestrial heat , air , moisture , and probably many other apparently conflicting agents , join to produce our weather , which never deviates very ...
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... 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 the system ...
... 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 the system ...
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... solar system and the powers of vegetable life . These two things are so related , that one has been made to fit the other . The relation is as clear as that of a watch to a sundial . If a person were to compare the watch with a dial ...
... solar system and the powers of vegetable life . These two things are so related , that one has been made to fit the other . The relation is as clear as that of a watch to a sundial . If a person were to compare the watch with a dial ...
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