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" ... placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable than that, since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should be sent through the arteries and return through the... "
The human mind, a discourse on its acquirements and history - Page 186
by Stephen Watson Fullom - 1858
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The History of Medicine in Its Salient Features

Walter Libby - 1922 - 466 pages
...to imagine, that so provident a cause as nature had not so placed so many valves without design; and no design seemed more probable, than that since the...veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way." It was not till 1628 that Harvey published his " De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus,"...
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The Fortnightly Review, Volume 29

1878 - 1022 pages
...to imagine that so provident a cause as nature had not so placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable, than that since the...veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way." * I have no doubt that it may be quite true, that Harvey 'was " induced " to " think of a circulation...
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Robert Boyle Reconsidered

Michael Hunter - 2003 - 256 pages
...imagine, that so provident a cause as nature had not so placed so many valves, without design; and no design seemed more probable, than that since the...veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way. (427) Again, the affirmative form of the argument can be seen to depend upon the assumption of...
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The History of Science from Augustine to Galileo

Alistair Cameron Crombie - 1995 - 756 pages
...to imagine that so provident a cause as nature had not so placed so many valves without design; and no design seemed more probable than that since the...veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way. (Boyle, Works, 1772, voL 5, p. 427) More recently it had been suggested that Harvey's theory of...
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Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology: Studies in the Origins of Life Science

James G. Lennox - 2001 - 350 pages
...so Provident a Cause as Nature had not so Plac'd so many Valves without Design: and no Design seem'd more probable, than That, since the Blood could not...Return through the Veins, whose Valves did not oppose it course that way. (Boyle 1688, 157) However, while the premise used in these cases is NP, and it...
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The Heart

James Peto - 2007 - 288 pages
...so Provident a Cause as Nature had not so Plac'd so many valves without Design: and no Design seem'd more probable, than That, since the Blood could not...veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way. But the way in which a scientist remembers and publishes his arguments is not necessarily the...
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Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature

Keith Stewart Thomson - 2007 - 344 pages
...nature had not so Plac'd so many valves without Design: and no Design seem'd more possible than that ... it should be Sent through the Arteries, and Return through the Veins 10 . Having given the outline of his case, on the very second page of his book Paley moved summarily...
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a history of embryology

Joseph Needham - 336 pages
...to imagine that so Provident a Cause as Nature had not so Plac'd so many Valves without Design; and no design seemed more probable, than that, since the...Veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way." The founder of the stoical philosophy, Zeno of Citium, was born some twenty years before the...
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 3

1846 - 816 pages
...to imagine, that so provident a cause as nature had not placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable than that, since the...veins whose valves did not oppose its course that way." This is but one of numerous instances, in which a faith in the designing providence of nature...
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Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, Volume 8

Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1877 - 720 pages
...invited to imagine that so provident a cause as Nature had not placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable than that, since the...the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the heart, it should be sent through the arteries and return through the veins, whose valves did not oppose...
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