| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 612 páginas
...existing crustaceans would have been found in the organs on which the impressions of such rays were then received. ' Regarding light itself also, we learn,...bottom of the primeval seas, as at the present moment. 4 Thus we find among the earliest organic remains an optical instrument of most curious construction,... | |
| 1836 - 534 páginas
...passages. — (ARAGO. Annuaire, par le Bureau des Longitudes, 1835.) Immutability of the Nature of Light. " WE learn from the resemblance of these most ancient...of vision, were first placed at the bottom of the primaeval seas, as at the present moment." — (BUCKLAND, Bridgewater Treatise, 1836.) Valuable Acid... | |
| 1837 - 608 páginas
...deep, could not have differed materially from its present condition. 'The mutual re' lations, too, of light to the eye, and of the eye to light, were...of the primeval ' seas, as at the present moment.' The sections ou fossil spiders, scorpions, insects, and the chapter on fossil radiated animals, or... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1838 - 388 páginas
...adaptations were the same as those which now impart the perception of light to the living crustacea. The mutual relations of light to the eye, and of the eye to light, were, therefore, the same at the time when crustacea first existed in the bottom of the primeval seas, as... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 828 páginas
...we learn, from the resemblance of these mosi ancient organisations to existing eyes, that the mutua relations of Light to the Eye, and of the Eye to Light were the same at the time when crustaceans endowec with the faculty of vision were placed at the bottom о the primeval seas, as at the present... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 820 páginas
...existing crustaceans would have been found in the organs on which the impressions o such rays were then received. Regarding Light itself also, we learn, from the resemblance of these mos ancient organisations to existing eyes, that the mutua relations of Light to the Eye, and of the... | |
| Richard Owen - 1843 - 440 páginas
...existing Crustaceans would have been found in the organs on which the impressions of such rays were then received. " Regarding light itself, also, we learn, from the resemblance of these most ancient organisations to existing eyes, that the mutual relations of light to the eye, and of the eye to light,... | |
| David Page - 1844 - 232 páginas
...existing crustaceans would have been found in the organs on which the impressions of such rays were then received. Regarding light itself also, we learn, from the resemblance of these most ancient organisations to existing eyes, that the mutual relations of light to the eye, and of the eye to light,... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 páginas
...existing crustaceans would have been found in the organs on which the impressions of such rays were then received. Regarding light itself, also, we learn, from the resemblance of these most ancient organisations to existing eyes, that the mutual relations of light to the eye, and of the eye to light,... | |
| David Page - 1849 - 372 páginas
...existing crustaceans would have been found in the organs on which the impressions of such rays were then received. Regarding light itself also, we learn,...crustaceans endowed with the faculty of vision were placed at the bottom of the primeval seas, as at the present moment." lf>4. The animals of this early... | |
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