A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France, Volumen 1T. Becket, 1794 |
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... elasticity --- its extensive use --- imperfectly understood by the ancients . LETTER XVII . The atmosphere ---- its ... elastic fluids --- characters of fixed air --- its combinations with other bodies --- its qualities , deleterious ...
... elasticity --- its extensive use --- imperfectly understood by the ancients . LETTER XVII . The atmosphere ---- its ... elastic fluids --- characters of fixed air --- its combinations with other bodies --- its qualities , deleterious ...
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... elastic fluids --- The reciprocal action of plants and animals on air --- the benefits hence arising to each . LETTER XXI . Properties of hepatic air --- of mephitic air --- choke damps --- fire damps --- air imparted from the animal ...
... elastic fluids --- The reciprocal action of plants and animals on air --- the benefits hence arising to each . LETTER XXI . Properties of hepatic air --- of mephitic air --- choke damps --- fire damps --- air imparted from the animal ...
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... elastic . Great mountains , which are composed of vi- trescent materials , and produced by the action of the primitive fire , are immediately connected with the interior rock of the globe , which is also a vitreous rock of the same kind ...
... elastic . Great mountains , which are composed of vi- trescent materials , and produced by the action of the primitive fire , are immediately connected with the interior rock of the globe , which is also a vitreous rock of the same kind ...
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... elastic fluids , " says De Luc , " formed by the fermentation which the waters , filtrated through these bodies , produced , made various openings in the bottom of the ocean , whence proceeded torrents of liquefied substances and lava ...
... elastic fluids , " says De Luc , " formed by the fermentation which the waters , filtrated through these bodies , produced , made various openings in the bottom of the ocean , whence proceeded torrents of liquefied substances and lava ...
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... elastic , others void of elasticity all which arise from the different figures of the particles , and the greater or less degree of attraction consequent thereupon . On this principle , we account for the manner in which plants imbibe ...
... elastic , others void of elasticity all which arise from the different figures of the particles , and the greater or less degree of attraction consequent thereupon . On this principle , we account for the manner in which plants imbibe ...
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aerial acid æther alkali Alps ancients animal appears aqua fortis argillaceous Aristotle atmosphere atoms attraction Bergman Buffon burning calcareous called cause chymists clouds cold colour combination combustion common air condensed consequently contain contrary crystal degree of heat dephlogisticated air dissolved doctrine earth effect elastic fluids electric element elevation Epicurus evaporation exhalations existence fixed air force globe granite gravity greater gypsum hence Imaüs inflammable inflammable air instance iron Kirwan less light likewise magnesia mass matter melted mephitic metals mineral moon motion mountains nature neral never Newton nitrous acid observed ocean particles phænomena philosophers phlogisticated phlogiston Priestley principle produced properties proportion pure air putrefaction quantity quartz rain rarefaction reason rivers salt Saussure says shells shew siliceous snow solar rays solid stones strata stratum substances subterraneous subtile supposed surface tain thing tides tion transparent vapour vegetable vital air vitriolic volcanos weight winds
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Página 50 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Página 47 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Página 108 - While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed.
Página 107 - Space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them ; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first Creation.
Página 108 - But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed. Water and Earth, composed of old worn Particles and Fragments of Particles, would not be of the same Nature and Texture now, with Water and Earth composed of entire 817 Particles in the Beginning. And therefore, that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in the various Separations and new Associations and Motions of these permanent Particles...
Página 107 - It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable moveable particles ; of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself...
Página 114 - Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues, or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great Part of the Phenomena of Nature?
Página 108 - Particles, would not be of the same Nature and Texture now, with Water and Earth composed of entire Particles in the Beginning. And therefore, that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in the various Separations and new Associations and Motions of these permanent Particles; compound Bodies being apt to break, not in the midst of solid Particles, but where those Particles are laid together, and only touch in a few Points.
Página 313 - But such a personification of "force" is a remnant of barbaric thought, in no wise sanctioned by physical science. When astronomy speaks of two planets as attracting each other with a " force " which varies directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances...
Página 115 - Forms of Things, but as general Laws of Nature, by which the Things themselves are form'd; their Truth appearing to us by Phaenomena, though their Causes be not yet discover'd.