The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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... earth is surrounded by other planets , by other worlds , by other systems of worlds ; all of which , we have reason to believe , are composed of the same substance , and regu- lated by the same laws . We stretch out our view on every ...
... earth is surrounded by other planets , by other worlds , by other systems of worlds ; all of which , we have reason to believe , are composed of the same substance , and regu- lated by the same laws . We stretch out our view on every ...
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... earth ; and Buffon , to have consisted of a comet and a portion of the sun's exterior limb or edge carried off by such comet , in consequence of its having given the sun an oblique stroke in the course of its orbit ; the chaos of the earth ...
... earth ; and Buffon , to have consisted of a comet and a portion of the sun's exterior limb or edge carried off by such comet , in consequence of its having given the sun an oblique stroke in the course of its orbit ; the chaos of the earth ...
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... earth , have utterly vanished , and the spots which they occupied in the heavens have become blanks . What has thus befallen other systems will assuredly befall our own ; of the time and the manner we know nothing , but the fact is ...
... earth , have utterly vanished , and the spots which they occupied in the heavens have become blanks . What has thus befallen other systems will assuredly befall our own ; of the time and the manner we know nothing , but the fact is ...
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... earth ; it falls down of the very same nature as it ascends , and the electric flash itself appears , generally speaking , to have no other influence upon it than that of hastening its precipi- tation . It is only to be decomposed ...
... earth ; it falls down of the very same nature as it ascends , and the electric flash itself appears , generally speaking , to have no other influence upon it than that of hastening its precipi- tation . It is only to be decomposed ...
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... earth , and whatever is now corruptible will put on incorruption . But what , after all , is matter in its elementary principles , as far as we are capable of following them up ? Can it be divided and subdivided to infinity ? or is ...
... earth , and whatever is now corruptible will put on incorruption . But what , after all , is matter in its elementary principles , as far as we are capable of following them up ? Can it be divided and subdivided to infinity ? or is ...
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