All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most... The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ... - Pàgina 657editat per Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1904 - 724 pàgines
...essential feature of the original order of nature. ' It seems probable to me,' says Sir Isaac Newton, ' that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion... | |
| William Whewell - 1847 - 756 pàgines
...hold it had upon his mind. At the close of his Opticks he says, "All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God, in the beginning,...figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that these primitive... | |
| James Pilkington - 1847 - 536 pàgines
...God in the beginning formed matter into solid, massive, impenetrable, moveable particles or atoms, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that these primitive particles, being... | |
| John Tudor - 1847 - 468 pàgines
...a conclusion which is substantially the same, saying — " All things considered, it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with ' such other properties, and in such proportion to space,... | |
| John Tudor - 1847 - 434 pàgines
...a conclusion which is substantially the same, saying — " All things considered, it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space,... | |
| Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1848 - 330 pàgines
...particles is by no means modern. Sir Isaac Newton says, " all things considered, it seems probable that God in the beginning, formed matter in solid,...with such other properties, and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them." 41. Space proved by geometry to be infinitely... | |
| James Gray - 1849 - 242 pàgines
...conceive, as is thus expressed by the illustrious Newton in his Queries subjoined to his Optics. " It seems probable to me that God in the beginning...figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them. ... By the help of this... | |
| 1877 - 564 pàgines
...i.) gives the following extract from Sir Isaac Newton : — "All things considered.!! seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
| Titus Lucretius Carus - 1851 - 528 pàgines
...Epicurus, referring their origination, however, to an Almighty power. " It seems probable," says he, " that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid,...hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end... | |
| John Anderson - 1851 - 402 pàgines
...a philosophy to explain the theory of the earth — that "All things considered, it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space,... | |
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