History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time, Volume 2

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D. Appleton, 1859 - Science

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Page 549 - As from his lair the wild beast where he wons In" forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den...
Page 244 - Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold.
Page 189 - Thus, the whole force of the bottle, and power of giving a shock, is in the GLASS ITSELF; the non-electrics in contact with the two surfaces, serving only to give and receive to and from the several parts of the glass; that is, to give on one side, and take away from the other.
Page 429 - I had with him, which was but a little while before he died, what were the things which induced him to think of a circulation of the blood ? he answered me, that when he took notice that the valves in the veins of so many parts of the body were so placed that they gave free passage to the blood towards the heart, but opposed the passage of the venal blood the contrary way, he was invited to think that so provident a cause as nature had not placed so many valves without design...
Page 343 - 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.
Page 446 - ... solid, pellucid, and uniform capillamenta of the nerves into the place of sensation ?" And (Query 24), " Is not animal motion performed by the vibrations of this medium, excited in the brain by the power of the will, and propagated from thence through the capillamenta of the nerves into the muscles for contracting and dilating them...
Page 540 - See the same sentiment in the letter to Darwin, March n, 1863, P. 363 :— exist, becoming the only occupants of the globe. And the dilemma then presents itself to us anew : — either we must accept the doctrine of the transmutation of species, and must suppose that the organized species of one geological epoch were transmuted into those of another by some long-continued agency of natural causes ; or else, we must believe in many successive acts of creation and extinction of species, out of the...
Page 473 - I have elsewhere shown, if the viscera of an animal are so organized as only to be fitted for the digestion of recent flesh, it is also requisite that the jaws should be so constructed as to fit them for devouring prey ; the claws must be constructed for seizing and tearing it to pieces; the teeth for cutting and dividing its flesh; the entire system of the limbs, or organs of motion, for pursuing and overtaking it; and the organs of sense, for discovering it at a distance. Nature also must have...
Page 52 - ... the ratio of the sines of the angles of incidence and refraction is constant. This ratio is called the index of refraction.
Page 565 - 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.

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