 The formation of the molecule is therefore an event not belonging to that order of nature under which we live. It is an operation of a kind which is not, so far as we are aware, going on on earth or in the sun or the stars, either now or since these bodies...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 208edited by - 1907Full view - About this book
 | 1884 - 626 pages
...The formation of a molecule is an event not belonging to that order of nature under which we live. It is an operation of a kind which is not, so far as...either now or since these bodies began to be formed. It must be referred to the epoch, not of the formation of the earth or of the solar system, but of... | |
 | Literature - 1907 - 848 pages
...reason to believe that "the creation of an atom is an operation of a kind which is not, so far as we arc aware, going on on earth or in the sun or in the stars,...of the existing order of Nature. The facts known to Clerk-Maxwell when he wrote the above words 1 See "New Physics and Chemistry," " Weighing Atoms." gave... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - Matter - 1885 - 344 pages
...of the molecule is therefore an event not belonging to that order of nature under which we live. It is an operation of a kind which is not, so far as we are aware, going on on earth or in the sun or the stars, either now or since these bodies began to be formed. It must be referred to the epoch, not... | |
 | Milton Valentine - Natural theology - 1885 - 296 pages
...the molecule is, therefore, an event not belonging to that order of nature under which we live. It is an operation of a kind which is not, so far as we are aware, going on in the earth or in the sun or the stars, either now or since these bodies began to be formed. It must... | |
 | 1910 - 844 pages
...is therefore an event not belonging to that order of nature under which we live. It is an expression of a kind which is not, so far as we are aware, going on on earth or in the sun or the stars, either now or since these bodies began to be formed. It must be referred to the epoch, not... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 928 pages
...the molecule ia therefore an event not belonging to that order of nature under which we live. It ia an operation of a kind which is not, so far as we are aware, going on on earth or in the sun or the stars, either now or since these bodies began to be formed. It must be referred to the epoch, not... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1914 - 552 pages
...formation of a molecule is therefore an event not belonging to that order of nature under which we live. It is an operation of a kind which is not, so far as we are aware, going on on earth or in the sun or the stars, either now or since these bodies began to be formed. . . . Each (atom) is physically independent... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - Matter - 1894 - 388 pages
...of the molecule is therefore an event not belonging to that order of nature under which we live. It is an operation of a kind which is not, so far as we are aware, going on on earth or in the sun or the stars, cither now or since these bodies began to be formed. It must be referred to the epoch, not... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1895 - 652 pages
...the molecule is, therefore, an event not belonging to that order of nature under which we live. It is an operation of a kind which is not, so far as we are aware, going on on earth, or in the sun, or the stars, either now or since these bodies began to be formed. It must be referred to the epoch, not... | |
 | Literature - 1908 - 860 pages
...existing order of nature"; or, to put the point more explicitly, if l may quote Clerk Maxwell * once more, that "the creation of an atom is an operation of a...we are aware, going on on earth or in the sun or in stars, either now or since these bodies began to be formed," and must be referred to the epoch of the... | |
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