 | Francis Preston Venable - 1904 - 322 pages
...being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation. While the particles continue entire they may compose bodies of one and the same...or break in pieces, the nature of things depending upon them would be changed. Water and earth, composed of old worn particles and fragments of particles,... | |
 | John Masson - 1907 - 514 pages
...formed them.' ' While the same particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or...would be changed. Water and earth composed of old, worn-out particles would not be of the same nature and texture now with water and earth composed of... | |
 | John Masson - 1907 - 494 pages
...formed them.' ' While the same particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or...would be changed. Water and earth composed of old, worn-out particles would not be of the same nature and texture now with water and earth composed of... | |
 | John Masson - 1907 - 498 pages
...formed them.' ' While the same particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or...would be changed. Water and earth composed of old, worn-out particles would not be of the same nature and texture now with water and earth composed of... | |
 | Forris Jewett Moore - 1918 - 362 pages
...being able to divide what God Himself made one in the first creation. While the particles continue entire they may compose bodies of one and the same...nature of things depending on them would be changed." The above is an admirable restatement of the ideas of Democritus as applied to physics, and in a vague... | |
 | Percy James Lancelot Smith, Sydney James Dale - 1927 - 232 pages
...any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces. . . . Should they wear away, or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed." are in the light of our present knowledge. What " wearing away " of the particles there is is confined... | |
 | History of Science Society - 1928 - 394 pages
...being able to divide what God Himself made one in the first creation. While the particles continue entire they may compose bodies of one and the same...earth composed of old worn particles and fragments would not be of the same nature and texture with water and earth composed of entire particles in the... | |
 | E. Kaila - 1978 - 386 pages
...form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable Particles . . . While the Particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same...Nature of Things depending on them would be changed . . . And, therefore, that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed... | |
 | A. I. Sabra - 1981 - 372 pages
...Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them . . . While the Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same...Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed . . . And therefore, that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - 1982 - 422 pages
...Newton's position were in fact large ones. Was it so certain that Nature is lasting, or that the atoms do 'compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages'? Was there at the time — indeed, has there ever been — evidence enough to justify a conviction that... | |
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While the Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages : But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them would be changed. 
