The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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... light , " & c . So , in another passage of the Yagur Veid , " Thou art Brahma ! thou art Vishnu ! thou art Kodra ! thou art Prajapat ! thou art Deïonta ! thou art air ! thou art Andri ! thou art the moon ! thou art substance ! thou art ...
... light , " & c . So , in another passage of the Yagur Veid , " Thou art Brahma ! thou art Vishnu ! thou art Kodra ! thou art Prajapat ! thou art Deïonta ! thou art air ! thou art Andri ! thou art the moon ! thou art substance ! thou art ...
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... light and fructifying seasons , as the sun gives light and fruitfulness to the earth , have utterly vanished , and the spots which they occupied in the heavens have become blanks . What has thus befallen other systems will assuredly ...
... light and fructifying seasons , as the sun gives light and fruitfulness to the earth , have utterly vanished , and the spots which they occupied in the heavens have become blanks . What has thus befallen other systems will assuredly ...
Página 35
... light . Though not essentially eternal , as was contended for by all the schools of Greece and Asia , nor essentially intelligent , as was contended for by several of them , it evinces in every part and in every ope- ration the impress ...
... light . Though not essentially eternal , as was contended for by all the schools of Greece and Asia , nor essentially intelligent , as was contended for by several of them , it evinces in every part and in every ope- ration the impress ...
Página 36
... light and the magnetic aura , we are not only wholly incapable of decomposing them by any process whatever , but even of deter- mining them to be ponderable , or to possess any of the other common pro- perties of matter , as extent and ...
... light and the magnetic aura , we are not only wholly incapable of decomposing them by any process whatever , but even of deter- mining them to be ponderable , or to possess any of the other common pro- perties of matter , as extent and ...
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... light at one or the other side of the ves- sels containing such solutions . Camphor displays a like affinity for light . All this , however , shows merely that light possesses an influence of some kind ; but it by no means establishes ...
... light at one or the other side of the ves- sels containing such solutions . Camphor displays a like affinity for light . All this , however , shows merely that light possesses an influence of some kind ; but it by no means establishes ...
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