Nature, Том 23Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1881 |
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... doubt as to the artistic excellence of the 122 quarto plates which illustrate and adorn the text . Sir Wyville Thomson's " General Introduction , " how- ever , is extremely readable both in size and in substance , and may be commended ...
... doubt as to the artistic excellence of the 122 quarto plates which illustrate and adorn the text . Sir Wyville Thomson's " General Introduction , " how- ever , is extremely readable both in size and in substance , and may be commended ...
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... doubt , whether it may not be well to keep a conclusion of such gravity and so well founded , apart from views respecting the absence of " minor local oscillations of the crust of the earth " in the area of the present great ocean ...
... doubt , whether it may not be well to keep a conclusion of such gravity and so well founded , apart from views respecting the absence of " minor local oscillations of the crust of the earth " in the area of the present great ocean ...
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... doubt as to their limit are rarely met with . There is usually no difficulty in telling what a thing is " ( p . 50 ) . Hence it appears that the study of the abyssal fauna has satisfied Sir Wyville Thomson that transitional forms are ...
... doubt as to their limit are rarely met with . There is usually no difficulty in telling what a thing is " ( p . 50 ) . Hence it appears that the study of the abyssal fauna has satisfied Sir Wyville Thomson that transitional forms are ...
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... doubt buried beneath the lava that escaped from them . In North - Western Europe , however , the basalt - sheets were erupted as far back as Miocene times . Since then , exposed to many vicissitudes of geological history — sub ...
... doubt buried beneath the lava that escaped from them . In North - Western Europe , however , the basalt - sheets were erupted as far back as Miocene times . Since then , exposed to many vicissitudes of geological history — sub ...
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... doubt cast much fresh light on the subject , more especially upon those phenomena of which in Europe the traces have been removed by denudation . But the other continents also are not without their illustrations . The basaltic plateaux ...
... doubt cast much fresh light on the subject , more especially upon those phenomena of which in Europe the traces have been removed by denudation . But the other continents also are not without their illustrations . The basaltic plateaux ...
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Сторінка 326 - I felt the sentiment of Being spread O'er all that moves and all that seemeth still, O'er all that, lost beyond the reach of thought And human knowledge, to the human eye Invisible, yet liveth to the heart ; O'er all that leaps and runs, and shouts and sings, Or beats the gladsome air ; o'er all that glides Beneath the wave, yea, in the wave itself, And mighty depth of waters.
Сторінка 312 - Beagle," as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the later chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers.
Сторінка 81 - Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, through continuous differentiations and integrations...
Сторінка 101 - On which the comment may be that one who had studied celestial mechanics as much as the reviewer has studied the general course of transformations, might similarly have remarked that the formula — " bodies attract one another directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances," was at best but a blank form for solar systems and sidereal clusters.
Сторінка 326 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Сторінка 312 - On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years...
Сторінка 67 - For it suggests that there is a sort of scientific knowledge of direct practical use, which can be studied apart from another sort of scientific knowledge, which is of no practical utility, and which is termed "pure science.
Сторінка 227 - Judged from this point of view, there can be no doubt that the Monotremes embody that type of structure which constitutes the earliest stage of mammalian organisation : — 1.
Сторінка 302 - The above experiments appear to prove conclusively that the surface fauna of the sea is really limited to a comparatively narrow belt in depth, and that there is no intermediate belt, so to speak, of animal life, between those living on the bottom, or close to it, and the surface pelagic fauna.
Сторінка 100 - Without further remark we shall give Newton's Three Laws ; it being remembered that as the properties of matter might have been such as to render a totally different set of laws axiomatic, these laws must be considered as resting on convictions drawn from observation and experiment and not on intuitive perception?