 His works, but trace, with precision, the operation of His laws, use the globe he inhabits as a base wherewith to measure the magnitude and distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by which...  Mechanism of the Heavens - Page viiby Mary Somerville - 1831 - 621 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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
...time inculcate humility, by showing that there is a barrier which no energy, mental or physical, will ever enable us to pass ; that however profoundly we...us must dwindle into insignificance, or even become altogether invisible.' We shall extract only one other passage from this discourse, as an example of... | |
 | 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
...time inculcate humility, by showing that there is a barrier which no energy, mental or physical, will ever enable us to pass ; that however profoundly we...us must dwindle into insignificance, or even become altogether invisible.' We shall extract only one other passage from this discourse, as an example of... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 484 pages
...of the energy that maintains them in their motions with a durability to which we can see no limit. Equally conspicuous is the goodness of the great First...remain innumerable systems, compared with which those apparently so vast must dwindle into insignificance, or even become invisible ; and that not only man,... | |
 | 1834 - 560 pages
...of the energy that maintains them in their motions with a durability to which we can see no limit. Equally conspicuous is the goodness of the great First...remain innumerable systems, compared with which those apparently so vast must dwindle into insignificance, or even become invisible ; and that not only man,... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pages
...of the energy that maintains them in their motions with a durability to which we can see no limit. Equally conspicuous is the goodness of the great First...remain innumerable systems, compared with which those apparently so vast must " Science, regarded as the pursuit of truth, which can only be attained by... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 666 pages
...having endowed man with faculties by which he can not only appreciate the magnificence of His works, B 2 but trace, with precision, the operation of his laws...remain innumerable systems, compared with which those apparently so vast must dwindle into insignificance, or even become invisible ; and that not only man,... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pages
...first step of a scale by which he may ascend to the starry firmament.' Such pursuits, while they enoble the mind, at the same time inculcate humility, by...remain innumerable systems, compared with which those apparently so vast must dwindle into insignificance, or even become invisible; and that not only man,... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1835 - 532 pages
...planets, and make the diameter ' of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by which he may ascend tfc the starry firmament. Such pursuits, while they ennoble...remain innumerable systems, compared with which, those apparently so vast must dwindle into insignificance, or even become i Hotel. invisible ; and that not... | |
 | 1844 - 290 pages
...ascend to the starry firmament*. Such pursuits, while they ennoblo the mind, at the same time incuicate humility, by showing that there is a barrier which...can ever enable us to pass; that, however profoundly wo may penetrate the depths of space, there Mill remain innumerable systems, compared with which, those... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...wherewith to measure the magnitude and distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter (Note 1) of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by...remain innumerable systems, compared with which, those apparently so vast must dwindle into insignificance, or even become invisible ; and that not only man,... | |
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