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" ... of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under such circumstances, we might have " years of unequal length, and seasons of capricious temperature, planets and moons of portentous size and aspect, glaring and disappearing at uncertain intervals... "
An Introduction to Astronomy: Designed as a Textbook for the Use of Students ... - Page 227
by Denison Olmsted - 1839 - 276 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 47

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
...reigned a succession of changes reducible to no apparent rule ; variety without progressive improvement ; years of unequal length and seasons of capricious...aspect, glaring and disappearing at uncertain intervals, and every part of the system wearing the appearance of anarchy, though, in fact, obeying, to the letter,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 47

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 - 614 pages
...reigned a succession of changes reducible to no apparent rule; variety without progressive improvement; years of unequal length and seasons of capricious...aspect, glaring and disappearing at uncertain intervals, and every part of the system wearing the appearance of anarchy, though, in fact, obeying, to the letter,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 47

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 - 614 pages
...reigned a succession of changes reducible to no apparent rule ; variety without progressive improvement ; years of unequal length and seasons of capricious...portentous size and aspect, glaring and disappearing at nucertain intervals, and every part of the system wearing the appearance of anarchy, though, in fact,...
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Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology

William Whewell - 1833 - 416 pages
...were to change much, the planets might sometimes come very near us, and thus exaggerate the effects of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under...consequent destruction of all organization on both of them. Nor is it, on a common examination of the history of the solar system, at all clear that there is no...
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Astronomy and General Physics, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology

William Whewell - 1833 - 298 pages
...were to change much, the planets might sometimes come very near us, and thus exaggerate the effects of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under...consequent destruction of all organization on both of them. Nor is it, on a common examination of the history of the solar system, at all clear that there is no...
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The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God ..., Volume 1

1836 - 566 pages
...were to change much, the planets might sometimes come very near us, and thus exaggerate the effects of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under...consequent destruction of all organization on both of them. Nor is it, on a common examination of the history of the solar system, at all clear that there is no...
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The Wesleyan methodist association magazine, Volume 12

1849 - 636 pages
...were to change much, the planets might sometimes come very near us, and thus exaggerate the effects of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under...aspect, glaring and disappearing at uncertain intervals j" tides like deluges, sweepmg over whole continents ; and, perhaps, the collision of two of the planets,...
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The Orbs of Heaven, Or, The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular ...

Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 366 pages
...subject, Professor Whewell, in his excellent work composing one of the Bridgewater Treatises, remarks : " The derangement which the planets produce in the motion...the planets, and the consequent destruction of all organisation on both of them.' The fact really is, that changes are taking place in the motions of...
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The Orbs of Heaven, Or, The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular ...

Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 374 pages
...these changes may go on without limit, and end in the complete subversion and ruin of the system 1 If, for instance, the result of this mutual gravitation...the planets, and the consequent destruction of all organisation on both of them.' The fact really is, that changes are taking place in the motions of...
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Astronomy and General Physics: Considered with Reference ..., Volume 3, Part 4

William Whewell - 1852 - 244 pages
...were to change muchj the planets might sometimes come very near us, and thus exaggerate the effects of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under...and moons of portentous size and aspect, glaring and disappear^ ing at uncertain intervals;" tides like deluges, sweeping over whole continents ; and, perhaps,...
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