 | James David Forbes - 1856 - 218 pages
...i. Newton's conjecture is expressed in these words : — " All things considered, it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid,...massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of snch sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced... | |
 | Charles Baker - 1857 - 438 pages
...together so as to produce the various forms of nature. Sir Isaac Newton taught, that " it seems probable that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, immovable particles, of such size and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions... | |
 | EDWARD HITCHCOCK - 1857 - 436 pages
...by philosophers as in reality untrue. With Sir Isaac Newton, they now mostly consider it " probable 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 proportion... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1857 - 446 pages
...by philosophers as in reality untrue. With Sir Isaac Newton, they now mostly consider it " probable 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 proportion... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 352 pages
...hold it had upon his mind. At the close of his Opticks he says, ' All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God, in the beginning,...figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that the primitive... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1860 - 94 pages
...me probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenctrable, movcablo 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 ; and that the primitive... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1860 - 972 pages
...are formed. Sir Isaac Newton thus expresses himself: — " All things considered, it stems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions... | |
 | George Wilson - 1862 - 408 pages
...the ablest of Dalton's predecessors : — ' All things considered,' says Newton, ' it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to... | |
 | Worthington Hooker - 1863 - 366 pages
...analyses of it we can. no more determine what matter is than we can what spirit is. Newton supposed "that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable particles." This he believed to be true of liquids, and even of gases, as well as solids. In the gas... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1864 - 438 pages
...seen in his account of the Vis Inertite, or in the following query at the close of the Optics : i8 " It seems probable to me that God in the beginning...massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such size and figures, and with such properties and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the... | |
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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 most conduced to the End for which he form'd them... 
