The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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... action . The SECOND HYPOTHESIS to which I have adverted is not less crowded with difficulties and absurdities ; but it has a more imposing appearance , and has hence , in many periods and among many nations , been more popular , and was ...
... action . The SECOND HYPOTHESIS to which I have adverted is not less crowded with difficulties and absurdities ; but it has a more imposing appearance , and has hence , in many periods and among many nations , been more popular , and was ...
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... action , has been singularly revived within the course of the last six years by Professor Leslie , in his principles of impulsion , as detailed in his “ Inquiry into the Nature of Heat . " It is a doctrine , also , peculiarly coincident ...
... action , has been singularly revived within the course of the last six years by Professor Leslie , in his principles of impulsion , as detailed in his “ Inquiry into the Nature of Heat . " It is a doctrine , also , peculiarly coincident ...
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... action ; and unequivocally refers the whole of those complex series of percus- sions and repercussions , interchanges and combinations , exhibited by the ele- mentary seeds or atoms of matter during the creative process , to a chain of ...
... action ; and unequivocally refers the whole of those complex series of percus- sions and repercussions , interchanges and combinations , exhibited by the ele- mentary seeds or atoms of matter during the creative process , to a chain of ...
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... action of the powder on a bullet ceases as soon as the bullet is out of the piece . In like manner a billiard ball at rest will continue so till put into motion by a billiard ball in motion , for it can never commence motion of its own ...
... action of the powder on a bullet ceases as soon as the bullet is out of the piece . In like manner a billiard ball at rest will continue so till put into motion by a billiard ball in motion , for it can never commence motion of its own ...
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... action , and constitute its magnificent code of laws , are thus summed up by M. la Place.t 1. Gravitation takes place between the most minute particles of bodies . 2. It is proportional to their masses . 3. It is inversely as the ...
... action , and constitute its magnificent code of laws , are thus summed up by M. la Place.t 1. Gravitation takes place between the most minute particles of bodies . 2. It is proportional to their masses . 3. It is inversely as the ...
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