All these things being consider'd, it seems probable to me, that God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as... The Elements of Physics - Page 15by Thomas Webster - 1837 - 490 pagesFull view - About this book
| Paul B. Scheurer, G. Debrock - 1988 - 406 pages
...writes: All these things being consider'd, it seems probable to me, that God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable...to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them; [...].17 This image is further complicated by the statement in one of the English versions... | |
| Marcia Sweet Stayer - 1988 - 152 pages
..."All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter as solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles...figures and with such other properties and in such proportions of space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them"; and he goes on later: "It... | |
| Julian B. Barbour - 1988 - 784 pages
...nature of matter, the similarity seems at first striking. Here is what Newton says in his Opticks:15 It seems probable to me, that God in the Beginning...to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them. . . . And therefore, that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to... | |
| Michael R. Matthews - 1989 - 180 pages
...Orbs. All these things being consider'd, it seems probable to me, that God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable...to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them; and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous... | |
| Stephen Toulmin, Stephen Edelston Toulmin - 1992 - 244 pages
...probable to me, that God in the beginning form'd matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such...to space, as most conduced to the end for which he form'd them;, [etc.] As a matter of 18th-century "common sense", Newton's ideas provided the fabric... | |
| 882 pages
...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 to Space as most conduced to the End for which he formed them." The atomic idea was amply... | |
| Richard Rhodes - 2012 - 890 pages
...wrote in 1704, "that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such...such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end to which he formed them." The Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who organized the founding of... | |
| John Read - 1995 - 260 pages
...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...and in such proportion to space, as most conduced for the end for which He formed them ; and that these primitive particles being solids, are incomparably... | |
| William Kingsland - 1992 - 176 pages
...God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of auch sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space as most to conduce to the end for which He formed them ; and that these primitive particles being solids, are... | |
| Robert D. Purrington - 1997 - 276 pages
...Opticks: All these things being consider'd, it seems probable to me, that God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable...to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous... | |
| |