Heroes of Science: Botanists, Zoologists, and GeologistsSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1882 - 348 pàgines |
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Heroes of Science: Botanists, Zoologists, and Geologists Peter Martin Duncan Visualització completa - 1882 |
Heroes of Science: Botanists, Zoologists, and Geologists Peter Martin Duncan Visualització completa - 1882 |
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Pàgina x - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Pàgina 225 - The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted, in his works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration.
Pàgina 225 - ... in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried the eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark, either of the commencement or the termination of the present order.
Pàgina 206 - ... depressed, so that it either overflows, or returns into its own place again. We must therefore ascribe the cause to the ground, either to that ground which is under the sea, or to that which becomes flooded by it, but rather to that which lies beneath the sea, for this is more moveable, and, on account of its humidity, can be altered with greater celerity*.
Pàgina 343 - BRITISH BIRDS IN THEIR HAUNTS : being a Popular Account of the Birds which have been observed in the British Isles, their Haunts and Habits. By the late Rev. CA JOHNS, BA, FLS Post 8vo, cloth boards ... ... ... ... 7 6 CAPTAIN EVA : the Story of a Naughty Girl.
Pàgina 206 - because the lands covered by seas were originally at different altitudes, that the waters have risen, or subsided, or receded from some parts and inundated others. But the reason is, that the same land is sometimes raised up and sometimes depressed...
Pàgina 224 - ... in the present structure of our planet, and the strata which now compose our continents have been once beneath the sea, and were formed out of the waste of pre-existing continents. The same forces are still destroying, by chemical decomposition or mechanical violence, even the hardest rocks, and transporting the materials to the sea, where they are spread out, and form strata analogous to those of more ancient date. Although loosely deposited along the bottom of the ocean, they become afterwards...
Pàgina 35 - Synopsis' is the most perfect that ever came under our observation. " He examined every plant recorded in his work, and even gathered most of them himself. He investigated their synonyms with consummate accuracy; and if the clearness and precision of other authors had equalled his, he would scarcely have committed an error.
Pàgina 318 - ... no causes whatever have from the earliest time to which we can look back, to the present, ever acted, but those now acting ; and that they never acted with different degrees of energy from that which they now exert.
Pàgina 205 - The changes of the earth are so slow in comparison to the duration of our lives, that they are overlooked ; and the migrations of people after great catastrophes and their removal to other regions, cause the event to be forgotten.