 All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space,...  Philosophical Magazine - Page 791869Full view - About this book
 | W. Sedgwick - 1896 - 308 pages
...cohesion, while acknowledging at the same time the sway of gravity. ?, _ CHAPTER III. THE FORM OF THE ATOM. All these things being considered, it seems probable...that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, many, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties... | |
 | Henry Enfield Roscoe, Arthur Harden - 1896 - 232 pages
...something which causes them to be attracted or pressed towards one another, is very difficult to conceive." "It seems probable to me that God in the beginning...formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and Jigures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1898 - 592 pages
...Epicurus, referring their origination, however, to an Almighty power. " It seems probable," says he, " that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid,...hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1898 - 574 pages
...Epicurus, referring their origination, however, to an Almighty power. " It seems probable," says he, " that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid,...massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of »uch sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced... | |
 | 1903 - 476 pages
...ancient idea — embodied in the name atom — concerning the indivisibility of these particles. He says: ".It seems probable to me that God in the beginning...figures, and with such other properties, and in such other proportions, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that these primitive particles,... | |
 | Morris Kline - 1985 - 270 pages
...science, namely, to provide a physical explanation of the action of natural phenomena. It seems very probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, so very hard as never to wear and break into pieces, no ordinary power being able... | |
 | Robert Hanbury Brown - 1986 - 210 pages
...believed in the 'corpuscular' theory of matter, but they couldn't prove it. Newton, for example, believed that: 'God in the beginning formed Matter in solid,...Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them.'... | |
 | Richard P. Olenick, Tom M. Apostol, David L. Goodstein - 1986 - 589 pages
...opposition to his peculiar aspiration. The rest, as we have seen, is history. CHAPTER ATOMS TO QUARKS 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 proportions,... | |
 | Marcia Sweet Stayer - 1988 - 152 pages
...published in 1704. 2 At the end of The Optics Newton begins to philosophize about the future of science: "All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter as solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles of such sizes and figures and with such other... | |
 | Vincent G. Potter - 1988 - 292 pages
...each other mechanically and ieleologically. Thus, in his famous work on Opticks, Newton tells us that "it seems probable to me that God in the beginning...formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such size and figures, and with such other properties, in such proportion to... | |
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