| William Higgins - 1814 - 194 pages
...stars in the universe ; we are confounded with ijife thought. But if we limit the subject, by talcing a given volume of any gas, we seem persuaded that,...a given space of the universe the number of stars aiul planets cannot foe infinite. K Chemical analysis and •synthesis go no farther than to the separation... | |
| Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1856 - 340 pages
...is somewhat like attempting to conceive the number of stars in the universe ; we are confounded with the thought. But if we limit the subject, by taking...minute, the number of particles must be finite; just * Page 49. f "A New System of Chemical Philosophy." Part I., p. 145. 2H as in a given space of the... | |
| Andrew Ure - 1860 - 972 pages
...somewhat like attempting to conceive the number of stars in the universe — we arc confounded with the thought. But if we limit the subject, by taking...a given volume of any gas, we seem persuaded that, be the divisions ever so minute, the number of particles must be finite ; just as in a given space... | |
| Henry Lonsdale - 1867 - 338 pages
...is somewhat like attempting to conceive the number of stars in the universe ; we are confounded with the thought. But if we limit the subject, by taking...infinite. " Chemical analysis and synthesis go no further than to the separation of particles one from another, and to their reunion. No new creation... | |
| Andrew Ure - 1867 - 1006 pages
...somewhat like attempting to conceive the number of stars in the universe — we arc confounded with the thought But if we limit the subject, by taking...a given volume of any gas, we seem persuaded that, be the divisions ever so minute, the number of particles must be finite ; just as in a given space... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1870 - 694 pages
...fleas have smaller fleas, and so ad infini/uni. " Let the divisions be ever so minute," he said, " the number of particles must be finite ; just as in...the number of stars and planets cannot be infinite. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system, or to annihilate one already... | |
| Henry Lonsdale - 1874 - 352 pages
...is somewhat like attempting to conceive the number of stars in the universe ; we are confounded with the thought. But if we limit the subject, by taking...infinite. " Chemical analysis and synthesis go no further than to the separation of particles one from another, and to their reunion. No new creation... | |
| Robert Routledge - 1881 - 748 pages
...is somewhat like attempting to conceive the number of stars in the universe : we are confounded with the thought. But if we limit the subject by taking...particles must be finite ; just as in a given space in the universe the number of stars and planets cannot be infinite. "Chemical analysis and synthesis... | |
| Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir - 1884 - 558 pages
...is somewhat like attempting to conceive the number ' of stars in the universe ; we are confounded by the thought. ' But if we limit the subject, by taking...infinite. ' Chemical analysis and synthesis go no further than to 'the separation of particles one from another, and to their ' reunion. No new creation... | |
| Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir - 1884 - 528 pages
...is somewhat like attempting to conceive the number ' of stars in the universe ; we are confounded by the thought. 'But if we limit the subject, by taking...be ever so 'minute, the number of particles must be f1nite; just as in a 'given space of the universe the number of stars and planets 1 cannot be infinite.... | |
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