 | 1895 - 710 pages
...different species of animals and plants that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end ; in the planetary motions where geometry has carried...commencement or termination of the present order. ' ' But the progress of investigation has changed all this, and has brought the science of the heavens... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1899 - 368 pages
...species of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end ; in the planetary motions where geometry has carried...we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order." ยง 10. Led by Hutton and Phiyfuir, Lyell taught the doctrine... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 484 pages
...of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end ; and, in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried...we discover no mark, either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose, that such marks should... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - 646 pages
...species of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth we discern neither a beginning nor an end; in the planetary motions where geometry has carried...we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - 634 pages
...species of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth we discern neither a beginning nor an end ; in the planetary motions where geometry has carried...we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1911 - 621 pages
...species of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end ; in the planetary motions where geometry has carried...we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order." 10. Led by Hutton and Playfair, Lyell taught the doctrine of... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule - 1911 - 628 pages
...species of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end ; in the planetary motions where geometry has carried...we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order." 10. Led by Button and Playfair, Lyell taught the doctrine of... | |
 | Sir Joseph Larmor - 632 pages
...species of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end ; in the planetary motions where geometry has carried...we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order." 10. Led by Hutton and Playfair, Lyell taught the doctrine of... | |
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - 1923 - 324 pages
...whatever may be learned from study of other members of the solar system. able expositor, John Playfair : " In the planetary motions, where geometry has carried...termination of the present order. It is unreasonable to suppose that such marks should anywhere exist. The author of nature has not given laws to the universe,... | |
 | 1899 - 630 pages
...species of niiimnls and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end; in the planetary motions where geometry has carried the eye so far both into the futurj and the past we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present... | |
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... in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried the eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. 
