The Connection of the Physical SciencesKey and Biddle, 1834 - 356 pages |
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... heat , such analogies have been pointed out as to justify the expectation , that they will ultimately be referred to the same agent : and in all there exists such a bond of union , that proficiency cannot be attained in any one without ...
... heat , such analogies have been pointed out as to justify the expectation , that they will ultimately be referred to the same agent : and in all there exists such a bond of union , that proficiency cannot be attained in any one without ...
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... heat , by contracting the terres- trial spheroid , would accelerate its rotation , and conse- quently diminish the length of the day . Notwithstanding the constant accession of heat from the sun's rays , geolo- gists have been induced ...
... heat , by contracting the terres- trial spheroid , would accelerate its rotation , and conse- quently diminish the length of the day . Notwithstanding the constant accession of heat from the sun's rays , geolo- gists have been induced ...
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... heating effect of the sun's rays . Previous to the formation of ice at the poles , the ancient lands of our northern latitudes , long since obliterated , might , no doubt , have been capable of producing those tropical plants whose ...
... heating effect of the sun's rays . Previous to the formation of ice at the poles , the ancient lands of our northern latitudes , long since obliterated , might , no doubt , have been capable of producing those tropical plants whose ...
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... heat received by the earth at different moments during a single revolution varies with the position of the perigee , which accomplishes a tropical revolution in 21067 years . In the year 1245 of our era , and 19822 years before it , the ...
... heat received by the earth at different moments during a single revolution varies with the position of the perigee , which accomplishes a tropical revolution in 21067 years . In the year 1245 of our era , and 19822 years before it , the ...
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... heat . Were the orbit circular , the seasons would be equal ; their difference arises from the eccentricity of the orbit , small as it is ; but the changes are so trifling , as to be imperceptible in the short space of human life . No ...
... heat . Were the orbit circular , the seasons would be equal ; their difference arises from the eccentricity of the orbit , small as it is ; but the changes are so trifling , as to be imperceptible in the short space of human life . No ...
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Page 20 - That day, as other solemn days, they spent In song and dance about the sacred hill; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets, and of fixed, in all her wheels Resembles nearest, mazes intricate, Eccentrick, intervolved, yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem ; And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.
Page 316 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Page 10 - Kepler also deduced from observation, that the squares of the periodic times of the planets, or the times of their revolutions round the sun, are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from...
Page 28 - His true position is in the diagonal of the parallelogram, whose sides are in the ratio of the velocity of light to the velocity of the earth in its orbit, which is as 190000 to 19.
Page 298 - Jupiter ; it then gradually diminished in splendour, and, having exhibited all the variety of tints that indicate the changes of combustion, vanished sixteen months after its discovery, without altering its position. It is impossible to imagine anything more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance.
Page 296 - The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit of their exhibiting a sensible disc ; but, in all probability, they are spherical, and must certainly be so if gravitation pervades all space, which it may be presumed to do, since Sir John Herschel has shown that it extends to the binary systems of stars.
Page 318 - These formulae, emblematic of Omniscience, condense into a few symbols the immutable laws of the universe. This mighty instrument of human power itself originates in the primitive constitution of the human mind, and rests upon a few fundamental axioms, which have eternally existed in Him who implanted them in the breast of man when He created him after His own image.