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 | William Somerville Orr - 1855 - 546 pages
...Query, subjoined to his Treatise on Opties, fourth edition, p. 350) :— " It seems to me probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid,...figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that the primitive... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1855 - 556 pages
...Query, subjoined to his Treatise on Opties, fourth edition, p. 350) :— " It seems to me probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid,...and figures, and with such other properties, and in auch proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that the primitive... | |
 | Robert Hare - 1855 - 484 pages
...in the second, as 2,500,000 to 1. Newton's definition of material particles was as follows : 1772. " It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning,...formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
 | Robert Hare - 1855 - 556 pages
...second, as 2,500,000 to 1. Newton's definition of material particles was as follows : 1772. "It secms probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
 | James David Forbes - 1856 - 218 pages
...i. Newton's conjecture is expressed in these words : — " All things considered, it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid,...massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of snch sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1857 - 446 pages
...by philosophers as in reality untrue. With Sir Isaac Newton, they now mostly consider it " probable that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
 | Charles Baker - 1857 - 438 pages
...together so as to produce the various forms of nature. Sir Isaac Newton taught, that " it seems probable that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, immovable particles, of such size and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions... | |
 | EDWARD HITCHCOCK - 1857 - 436 pages
...by philosophers as in reality untrue. With Sir Isaac Newton, they now mostly consider it " probable that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 352 pages
...a passage from Newton to show the hold it had upon his mind. At the close of his Opticks he says, ' All these things being considered, it seems probable...figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that the primitive... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1860 - 94 pages
...me probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenctrable, movcablo particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that the primitive... | |
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