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Nothing can be known from observation , since the existence of the human race has occupied comparatively but a point in duration , while these vicissitudes embrace myriads of ages . The proof is simple and conclusive .
Nothing can be known from observation , since the existence of the human race has occupied comparatively but a point in duration , while these vicissitudes embrace myriads of ages . The proof is simple and conclusive .
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The existence of an ethereal medium is now proved ; and , although it is so extremely rare that hitherto its effects on the motions of the planets have been altogether insensible , there can be no doubt that , in the immensity of time ...
The existence of an ethereal medium is now proved ; and , although it is so extremely rare that hitherto its effects on the motions of the planets have been altogether insensible , there can be no doubt that , in the immensity of time ...
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Not only the existence of Neptune , revolving at the distance of three thousand millions of miles from the sun , has been discovered from his disturbing action on Uranus , but his mass , the form and position of his orbit in space ...
Not only the existence of Neptune , revolving at the distance of three thousand millions of miles from the sun , has been discovered from his disturbing action on Uranus , but his mass , the form and position of his orbit in space ...
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The prediction may now be transferred from Uranus to Neptune , whose perturbations may reveal the existence of a planet still further remo moved , which may for ever remain beyond the reach of telescopic vision - yet its mass , the form ...
The prediction may now be transferred from Uranus to Neptune , whose perturbations may reveal the existence of a planet still further remo moved , which may for ever remain beyond the reach of telescopic vision - yet its mass , the form ...
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... coal - measures were formed in which the fossil tropical plants are found ; and a variety of geological facts indicate the existence of an ancient and extensive archipelago throughout the greater part of the northern hemisphere .
... coal - measures were formed in which the fossil tropical plants are found ; and a variety of geological facts indicate the existence of an ancient and extensive archipelago throughout the greater part of the northern hemisphere .
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| Title | On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences |
| Author | Mary Somerville |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1858 |
| Original from | National Library of the Netherlands |
| Digitized | 18 Jan 2013 |
| Length | 523 pages |
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