The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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... regarded this doctrine as of divine origin ; and endeavoured , though preposterously , to blend the trinity of Plato , and that of the Christian Scripture , into one common dogma : an attempt which has been occasionally revived in ...
... regarded this doctrine as of divine origin ; and endeavoured , though preposterously , to blend the trinity of Plato , and that of the Christian Scripture , into one common dogma : an attempt which has been occasionally revived in ...
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... regarded as three distinct properties , of extension , density , and impenetrability . EXTENSION is a term as applicable to space as to matter : " The extension of body , " observes Mr. Locke , “ being nothing but the cohesion or ...
... regarded as three distinct properties , of extension , density , and impenetrability . EXTENSION is a term as applicable to space as to matter : " The extension of body , " observes Mr. Locke , “ being nothing but the cohesion or ...
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... regarded , and was at first only offered , as an hypothesis . M. la Place , equally dissatisfied as Sir Isaac Newton with the idea of gravi tation being an essential property of matter , passes away from the inquiry with suitable ...
... regarded , and was at first only offered , as an hypothesis . M. la Place , equally dissatisfied as Sir Isaac Newton with the idea of gravi tation being an essential property of matter , passes away from the inquiry with suitable ...
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... argument to connect this repulsive power with heat , whether regarded as a substance or a mere property . * Elm . p . 164 , 165 f Id p . 176 Heat , again , which undoubtedly makes the particles of ESSENTIAL AND PECULIAR . 61.
... argument to connect this repulsive power with heat , whether regarded as a substance or a mere property . * Elm . p . 164 , 165 f Id p . 176 Heat , again , which undoubtedly makes the particles of ESSENTIAL AND PECULIAR . 61.
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... regarded , not as a mere quality of body produced by internal vibration , and forming an antagonist power to the attraction of cohe- sion , but as a distinct and independent substance . The sources of heat are various , though by far ...
... regarded , not as a mere quality of body produced by internal vibration , and forming an antagonist power to the attraction of cohe- sion , but as a distinct and independent substance . The sources of heat are various , though by far ...
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