 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 pages
...lunar theory teaches us that the •internal strata, as well as the external outline, of our clobe, are elliptical, their centres being coincident and...that of the surface,—a state of things incompatible \vith a subsequent accommodation of the surface to a new and different state of rotation from that... | |
 | George Fairholme - 1833 - 520 pages
...the Quarterly Review has remarked, that " the lunar theory teaches us, that the inter" nal strata, as well as the external outline of our globe, ••...coincident, and their " axes identical with that of the surface ; a state of things " incompatible with any subsequent accommodation of the " surface, to a... | |
 | George Fairholme - 1833 - 538 pages
...the Quarterly Review has remarked, that " the lunar theory teaches us, that the inter" nal strata, as well as the external outline of our globe, ••...being coincident, and their " axes identical with tliat of the surface; a state of things " incompatible with any subsequent accommodation of the " surface,... | |
 | George Fairholme - 1833 - 300 pages
...the Quarterly Review has remarked, that " the lunar theory teaches us, that the internal strata, as well as the external outline of our globe, are elliptical ; their centres being coincident, and their axis identical with that pf the surface ; a state of things incompatible with any subsequent accommodation... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pages
...hypothesis itself. For it must be observed, that " the lunar theory teaches us that the internal strata, as well " as the external outline of our globe, are elliptical...coincident, and their axes identical with that of the sur" face; a state of things incompatible with a subsequent accom"modation of the surface to a new... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 666 pages
...pendulum, as well as from the lunar theory, that the internal strata, and also the cxtemal outline of the globe, are elliptical, their centres being coincident,...identical, with that of the surface,—a state of things which, according to the distinguished author lately quoted, is incompatible with a subsequent accommodation... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 484 pages
...pendulum, as well as from the lunar theory, that the internal strata, and also the external outline of the globe, are elliptical, their centres being coincident,...identical, with that of the surface,—a state of things which, according to the distinguished author lately quoted, is incompatible with a subsequent accommodation... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pages
...pendulum, as well as from the lunar theory, that the internal strata, and also the external outline of the globe, are elliptical, their centres being coincident,...identical, with that of the surface,—a state of tilings which, according to the distinguished author lately quoted, is incompatible with a subsequent... | |
 | 1834 - 494 pages
...theory, is this,—that the internal strata of the earth are ellipses parallel to its external outline, their centres being coincident, and their axes identical with that of the surface. The present axis of the earth must therefore have been its axis from the beginning. It may... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1840 - 858 pages
...pendulum as well as from the lunar theory, that the internal strata and also the external outline of the globe are elliptical, their centres being coincident and their axes identical with that of the surface — a state of things which, according to the distinguished author lately quoted, is incompatible... | |
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well as the external outline of our globe, are elliptical, their centres being coincident, and their axes identical with that of the surface,—a state of things incompatible with a subsequent accommodation of the surface to a new and different state... 
