Humboldt library of science. no. 20, 1881, Oplag 20Humboldt Publishing Company, 1881 |
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Side 399
... course of nature the same phenomena , that they do to us . But not such , do we find to be the case . Some of them in- deed will resemble us pretty closely in one thing and some in another , but in every one the points of contrast will ...
... course of nature the same phenomena , that they do to us . But not such , do we find to be the case . Some of them in- deed will resemble us pretty closely in one thing and some in another , but in every one the points of contrast will ...
Side 400
... course all the other denizens of the asteroid will have their size and strength increased in the same proportion . The racehorse will rear his crest two hundred feet into the air , and gallop five thousand miles an hour . The giraffe on ...
... course all the other denizens of the asteroid will have their size and strength increased in the same proportion . The racehorse will rear his crest two hundred feet into the air , and gallop five thousand miles an hour . The giraffe on ...
Side 401
... course be exactly the opposite . If we ourselves were trans- ported to the sun , we should feel as much like fish out of water as the colossal in- habitants of Ceres would do here ; and in fact it will be readily seen that if the sun ...
... course be exactly the opposite . If we ourselves were trans- ported to the sun , we should feel as much like fish out of water as the colossal in- habitants of Ceres would do here ; and in fact it will be readily seen that if the sun ...
Side 402
... course of time , would be to decrease these annual variations of temperature . In some of the other planets , however , it is on the increase , and when this fact was first discovered , it excited great in- terest among astronomers ...
... course of time , would be to decrease these annual variations of temperature . In some of the other planets , however , it is on the increase , and when this fact was first discovered , it excited great in- terest among astronomers ...
Side 405
... course there was no other way of proving to them that the moons were really there . One of these sceptics , Libri of Pisa , died during the heat of the contro- versy ; and we find Galileo , in a letter to a friend , charitably hoping ...
... course there was no other way of proving to them that the moons were really there . One of these sceptics , Libri of Pisa , died during the heat of the contro- versy ; and we find Galileo , in a letter to a friend , charitably hoping ...
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altogether appearance asteroids astronomers atmos atmosphere axis Babylonian bright brilliancy cause Ceres Cloth cluster comet course craters creation crust dark discovery disk distance Double Number earth Edward Clodd ence Essays existence fact firmament gaseous Genesis globe glory Grant Allen gravity heat heavenly bodies heavens Herbert Spencer Herschel Huxley hypothesis Illustrated inhabitants J. F. C. Hecker John Tyndall Jupiter Laplace's less light liquid lunar mass matter Mercury meteoric miles millions moon moon's surface motion nature Nebular Hypothesis Neptune night nucleus observations oceans orbit origin period phenomena planets position present probably Prof ray centres reason regarded regions revolution Richard Chenevix Trench ring romance rotation round satellites Saturn scientific side solar system solid spots stage stars stellar sun's supposed T. H. Huxley tablet telescope theory tion turn universe Uranus velocity whole William Kingdon Clifford zodiac
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Side 400 - There are seven windows given to animals in the domicile of the head, through which the air is admitted to the tabernacle of the body, to enlighten, to warm, and to nourish it...
Side 421 - The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean without bound, Without dimension; where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost...
Side 444 - ... and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Side 421 - And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Side 400 - From which and many other similar phenomena of nature, such as the seven metals, etc., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven. " Moreover, the satellites are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can have no influence on the earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist.
Side 433 - For all these things hath mine hand made, and so all these things came to be, saith the LORD : but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my word.
Side 400 - Besides, the Jews and other ancient nations as well as modern Europeans have adopted the division of the week into seven days, and have named them from the seven planets : now if we increase the number of the planets this whole system falls to the ground.