The Creation: The Earth's Formation on Dynamical Principles in Accordance with the Mosaic Record and Latest Scientific DiscoveriesDaldy, Isbister, 1874 - 664 pages |
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... consequently different from the Light at present received . The expansive influence of Light and Heat act in opposition to Attraction . The repulsive power of Light . The introduction of Light into the material universe equal to the ...
... consequently different from the Light at present received . The expansive influence of Light and Heat act in opposition to Attraction . The repulsive power of Light . The introduction of Light into the material universe equal to the ...
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... consequently great heat , would necessarily ensue amongst the rocky masses of the earth's crust . The characteristics of Friction inquired into , and the Breccia which would result , when mineral formations , abounding with calcareous ...
... consequently great heat , would necessarily ensue amongst the rocky masses of the earth's crust . The characteristics of Friction inquired into , and the Breccia which would result , when mineral formations , abounding with calcareous ...
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... consequently the living principle , once existed ; and , if the living principle , then the necessary con- ditions of life ; and if the necessary conditions of life , then the power , by generation , of transmitting the form of their ...
... consequently the living principle , once existed ; and , if the living principle , then the necessary con- ditions of life ; and if the necessary conditions of life , then the power , by generation , of transmitting the form of their ...
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... consequently , a succession of distinct vegetable and animal forms would be indispensable to bring both to that degree of perfection . As one race of the latter exhausted its peculiar food and became extinct , another race would be ...
... consequently , a succession of distinct vegetable and animal forms would be indispensable to bring both to that degree of perfection . As one race of the latter exhausted its peculiar food and became extinct , another race would be ...
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... consequently , could not have been encased in a shelly coating of carbonate of lime weighing 27 , or nearly three times , the weight of the same bulk of water . * Deprived of this solid covering they would have left no calcareous exuvia ...
... consequently , could not have been encased in a shelly coating of carbonate of lime weighing 27 , or nearly three times , the weight of the same bulk of water . * Deprived of this solid covering they would have left no calcareous exuvia ...
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Page 577 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind : and it was so.
Page 577 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years. And let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 578 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 578 - Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Page 578 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Page 213 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Page 577 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth...
Page 52 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 209 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Page 577 - ... and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day.