The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volumen 5Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1835 |
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... matter , modi- fying its forms , properties , and powers , causing all the phenomena of at- traction and repulsion , or is it an inscrutable mystery ? These are ques- tions which have occupied the master spirits of the world for ...
... matter , modi- fying its forms , properties , and powers , causing all the phenomena of at- traction and repulsion , or is it an inscrutable mystery ? These are ques- tions which have occupied the master spirits of the world for ...
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... matter , termed caloric - which has so strong an affinity for them that it cannot be entirely separated from them , — that it holds the atoms of solids together , while it prevents them from coming into actual contact , that when this ...
... matter , termed caloric - which has so strong an affinity for them that it cannot be entirely separated from them , — that it holds the atoms of solids together , while it prevents them from coming into actual contact , that when this ...
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... matter to their own structure and growth , when life begins to dawn , as in all the most simple forms of organization which spring from putrefaction . Thus we learn , that it is almost impossible to draw the boundary line between ...
... matter to their own structure and growth , when life begins to dawn , as in all the most simple forms of organization which spring from putrefaction . Thus we learn , that it is almost impossible to draw the boundary line between ...
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... matter , superadded to the structure of muscles , and other forms of animal and vegetable matter , as magnetism is to iron , and as electricity is to the various substances with which it may be united . * Some of the most distinguished ...
... matter , superadded to the structure of muscles , and other forms of animal and vegetable matter , as magnetism is to iron , and as electricity is to the various substances with which it may be united . * Some of the most distinguished ...
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... matter , in a state of decomposition , are filled with thousands and millions of animal- cules , insects , etc. , and that they become covered over with a green vegetable substance - termed by botanists the conferva fontanalis , -that ...
... matter , in a state of decomposition , are filled with thousands and millions of animal- cules , insects , etc. , and that they become covered over with a green vegetable substance - termed by botanists the conferva fontanalis , -that ...
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