Explanations: A Sequel to "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation"Wiley & Putnam, 1846 - 142 pagina's |
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Explanations: A Sequel to "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" Robert Chambers Volledige weergave - 1846 |
Explanations: A Sequel to "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation." Robert Chambers Volledige weergave - 1846 |
Explanations: A Sequel to "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation." Robert Chambers Volledige weergave - 1845 |
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admitted advance affinities ages animal kingdom appear argument arrangement ascertained birds Bridgewater Treatise British called carboniferous causes cephalaspis cetacea character cloth connexion crustacea Cuvier Deity development theory dicotyledons divine doctrine earth Edinburgh reviewer edition electric embryo equally evidence existence experiments fact favour Fcap fish flora Foreign Medical Review formation forms fossil bands fossiliferous fossils fungus geological geologists globe human idea inferior John Herschel land vegetation lowest mammalia mammals manner marine marsupials matter ment mind mode mollusks natural law naturalist nebular hypothesis nebulous objections observation oolite organic creation origin peculiar phenomena plants portion present Professor progress proof reader regard remark reptiles reptilian respect rocks says scientific seen Silurian sivatherium speak species strata structure suppose telescope tertiary tion traces transmutation Treatise true various vertebrata vessel Vestiges W. H. WEEKES Whewell whole writer
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Pagina 150 - ... in nature the law of the tendency of fluids to distribute themselves so as to equalize the pressure on every side of each of their particles ; as in the case of the trade winds, and the monsoons. Lightning might once have been supposed to obey no laws; but since it has been ascertained to be identical with electricity, we know that the very same phenomenon in some of its manifestations is implicitly obedient to the action of fixed causes. I do not believe that there is now one object or event...
Pagina 181 - The process of tracing regularity in any complicated and at first sight confused set of appearances, is necessarily tentative : we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption.
Pagina 18 - almost always seen to assume, at the instant of their formation, a movement of rotation upon themselves— s, movement which constantly takes place in the same direction as that of the ring. Moreover, as the ring, at the instant of its rupture, had still a remainder of velocity, the spheres to which it has given birth tend to fly off at a tangent ; but as, on the other side, the...
Pagina 47 - There were seas supporting crustacean and molluscan life, but utterly devoid of a class of tenants who seem able to live in every example of that element which supports meaner creatures. This single fact, that only invertebrated animals now lived, is surely in itself a strong proof that, in the course of nature, time was necessary for the creation of the superior creatures.