 | Great Britain - 1802 - 764 pages
...larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water works at London Bridge; and the water roaring ii) its passage through that pipe is inferior, in impetus...from the •whale's heart. Hear Dr. Hunter's Account ol the dissection of a whale. • The aorta measured a fool diame' tef. Ten or fifteen gallons of blood... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - Chemistry - 1807 - 382 pages
...The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the m;;in pipe of the water-works at London bridge; and the water roaring in its passage through that...velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart." According to Dr. Hunter, ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart uf a whale at... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1809 - 516 pages
...the aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main-pipe of the waterworks at London-bridge 0 , and the water roaring in its passage through that...velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart. The minute wonders of anatomy, though less striking, will, perhaps, appear still more curious and interesting... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 636 pages
...larger in the bore than the main-pipe of the water-works at London Bridge ; and the roaring in the passage through that pipe is inferior, in impetus...velocity, to the blood gushing from the whale's heart.' He cares not whence he fetches his illustrations, provided they are to the purpose. The lamina of the... | |
 | William Paley - God - 1811 - 574 pages
...is, when we come to very large animals. The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London-Bridge ; and the water...measured a foot diameter. Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with an immense velocity, through a tube of a foot diameter.... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1812 - 572 pages
...aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main-pipe of the water-works at Londonbridge d and that the water roaring in its passage through that pipe...velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart. The minute wonders of anatomy, though less striking, will, perhaps, appear still more curious and interesting... | |
 | American periodicals - 1830 - 504 pages
...main-pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and that the water roaring in its passage through the pipe is inferior in. impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from a whale's heart. Dr. Hunter, in his account of the dissection of a whale, states that the aorta measured... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1819 - 302 pages
...The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge ; and the water roaring in its passage through that...the blood gushing from the whale's heart. Hear Dr. Hunter-s account of the dissection of a whale. " The aorta measured a foot diameter. Ten or fifteen... | |
 | Arminianism - 1840 - 1122 pages
...The aorta of a whale il larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London bridge t * and the water roaring in its passage through that...measured a foot diameter. Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with an immense velocity, through a tube of a foot in diameter.... | |
 | Natural history - 1822 - 192 pages
...great artery of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water works at London bridge ; and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe, is inferior in force and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's iieart. The heart performs this office in... | |
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Consider what an affair this is, when we come to very large animals. The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the waterworks at London Bridge ; and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior, in impetus and... 
