Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays ... To which are Added Essays on the Jewish Sabbath and AstrologyD. Appleton and Company, 1881 - 323 стор. |
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... creatures across the gap which separates the earliest forms of life from the beginning itself of life upon the earth . Since we cannot hope to determine the real beginning of the earth's history , we need not at present attempt to pass ...
... creatures across the gap which separates the earliest forms of life from the beginning itself of life upon the earth . Since we cannot hope to determine the real beginning of the earth's history , we need not at present attempt to pass ...
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... creatures living on the moon . But whether this were so or not , it may be safely assumed that when the earth's contracting gaseous globe first began to have liquid or solid matter in its constitution , the earth must have been a sun so ...
... creatures living on the moon . But whether this were so or not , it may be safely assumed that when the earth's contracting gaseous globe first began to have liquid or solid matter in its constitution , the earth must have been a sun so ...
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... creatures . Thereafter , during ages infinite to our conceptions , the great central orb will be ( as now , though in another sense ) the life of the solar system . We may even look onwards to still more distant changes , seeing that ...
... creatures . Thereafter , during ages infinite to our conceptions , the great central orb will be ( as now , though in another sense ) the life of the solar system . We may even look onwards to still more distant changes , seeing that ...
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... creatures , so only that the object be judiciously selected , and the evidence of the useful purposes subserved by it be clear and unmistakable . But it appears to me that great mischief may be done , that in fact great mischief has ...
... creatures , so only that the object be judiciously selected , and the evidence of the useful purposes subserved by it be clear and unmistakable . But it appears to me that great mischief may be done , that in fact great mischief has ...
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... creatures are brought to life that perish before they reach maturity ? This , true of all races of animals , is true of man . True of the individual man , it is also true of nations , of races of men . History shows us , and we see in ...
... creatures are brought to life that perish before they reach maturity ? This , true of all races of animals , is true of man . True of the individual man , it is also true of nations , of races of men . History shows us , and we see in ...
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abode according actual aggregation apparent diameter appear Asshur astrological astronomers atmosphere believe Biela's comet bodies bright celestial Chaldæan circle circumstance clouds clusters colour compared condition consider constellation corresponding creatures dark disc distance of Sirius double stars earth Egyptian enormous estimate evidence existence fact galaxy gaseous globe heat heavens Herschel's papers idea infer infinite infinity Jupiter Jupiter's less light mass matter meteors method of star-gauging Milky millions of miles minor planet moon moon's motion nature nebulæ Nisroch November 27 object observed orbit orbs passage passing perihelion planet portion present probably question reason recognise regarded regions remarkable Remphan respecting result ring ring-system Sabbath satellites Saturn Saturnian says seems seen shew shewn sidereal system Sir John Herschel Sir William Herschel solar system space spectrum star-clusters star-depths star-system stellar stratum sun's supposed surface telescopic power theory tion visible Whewellite whole worlds