Quarterly Journal of Science: 1877, Том 14John Churchill and Sons, 1877 |
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... earth and its satellite , and the general analogy that selenographers maintain exist between their respective classes of primitive formations , it is unquestionable that the study of lunar surface must throw light on many obscure points ...
... earth and its satellite , and the general analogy that selenographers maintain exist between their respective classes of primitive formations , it is unquestionable that the study of lunar surface must throw light on many obscure points ...
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... earth were forcibly stated , and where he pointed out the impossibility of the view that was held in the time of the earlier astronomers , -that the moon might be a mere copy of the earth , containing a dense atmosphere , large oceans ...
... earth were forcibly stated , and where he pointed out the impossibility of the view that was held in the time of the earlier astronomers , -that the moon might be a mere copy of the earth , containing a dense atmosphere , large oceans ...
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... earth ; and until some satisfactory theory could be de- vised which would show by what means this change in Messier could have been brought about , in a manner con- sistent with other selenographical facts , it is not surprising that a ...
... earth ; and until some satisfactory theory could be de- vised which would show by what means this change in Messier could have been brought about , in a manner con- sistent with other selenographical facts , it is not surprising that a ...
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... earth , that thus darkens when submitted to heat , -some from loss of moisture , others from loss of other substances , and others again apparently from a molecular action . Selenographers cannot say which of these probably forms the ...
... earth , that thus darkens when submitted to heat , -some from loss of moisture , others from loss of other substances , and others again apparently from a molecular action . Selenographers cannot say which of these probably forms the ...
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... earth would not be recognisable on the moon , in the present state of our acquaintance with the configuration of its surface , is not generally understood . When , however , the attention of astronomers is more generally directed to the ...
... earth would not be recognisable on the moon , in the present state of our acquaintance with the configuration of its surface , is not generally understood . When , however , the attention of astronomers is more generally directed to the ...
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Сторінка 511 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Сторінка 37 - To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
Сторінка 140 - Deas. — THE RIVER CLYDE. An Historical Description of the Rise and Progress of the Harbour of Glasgow, and of the Improvement of the River from Glasgow to Port Glasgow. By J. DEAS, M.
Сторінка 278 - ... the nature of things depending on them would be changed. Water and earth, composed of old worn particles and fragments of particles, would not be of the same nature and texture now, with water and earth composed of entire particles at the beginning ; and therefore, that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations, and new associations and motions of these permanent particles...
Сторінка 513 - The inference I would draw from this class of phenomena is, that a superior intelligence has guided the development of man in a definite direction, and for a special purpose, just as man guides the development of many animal and vegetable forms.
Сторінка 40 - A monstrous eft was of old the Lord and Master of Earth, For him did his high sun flame, and his river billowing ran, And he felt himself in his force to be Nature's crowning race. As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for his birth, So many a million of ages have gone to the making of man: He now is first, but is he the last? is he not too base?
Сторінка 38 - ... animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated...
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Сторінка 415 - Svo. 14*. The Geology of England and Wales ; a Concise Account of the Lithological Characters, Leading Fossils, and Economic Products of the Rocks. By HB WOODWARD, FGS Crown Svo.
Сторінка 30 - What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern, and should include similar bones, in the same relative positions...