 God," as was said by the ancients, "works by geometry:" the legislation of the material universe is necessarily delivered in the language of mathematics ; the stars in their courses are regulated by the properties of conic sections, and the winds depend...  Lessons on the globes - Page 161by T H. Howe - 1842Full view - About this book
 | William Whewell - Astronomy - 1833 - 298 pages
...subject to numerical measurement, and capable of being connected by mathematical properties. And thus all things are ordered by number and weight and measure....geometrical progressions of elasticity and pressure. The constitution of the universe, so far as it can be clearly apprehended by our intellect, thus assumes... | |
 | Natural theology - 1836 - 566 pages
...subject to numerical measurement, and capable of being connected by mathematical properties. And thus all things are ordered by number and weight and measure....geometrical progressions of elasticity and pressure. The constitution of the universe, so far as it can be clearly apprehended by our intellect, thus assumes... | |
 | John Harris - Bible and geology - 1847 - 330 pages
...is, man shall not kill ; the language of a Law of Nature is, a stone will fall to the earth." Here, " all things are ordered by number, and weight, and...geometrical progressions of elasticity and pressure."* * 2. As " the laws of nature," then, can only properly denote those rules by which God is pleased to... | |
 | John Harris - Creation - 1850 - 322 pages
...is, man shall not kill ; the language of a Law of Nature is, a stone will fall to the earth." Here " all things are ordered by number, and weight, and...geometrical progressions of elasticity and pressure." i 2. As " the laws of nature," then, can only properly denote those rules by which God is pleased to... | |
 | John Harris - Creation - 1850 - 324 pages
...is, man shall not kill ; the language of a Law of Nature is, a stone will fall to the earth." Here " all things are ordered by number, and weight, and...legislation of the material universe is necessarily deli vered in the language of mathematics ; the stars in their courses are regulated by the properties... | |
 | John Harris - Creation - 1851 - 368 pages
...is, man shall not kill ; the language of a Law of Nature is, a stone will fall to the earth." Here " all things are ordered by number, and weight, and...geometrical progressions of elasticity and pressure. •i 2. As " the laws of nature," then, can only properly denote those rules by which God is pleased... | |
 | William Whewell - Astronomy - 1852 - 244 pages
...of being connected by red aid i of the material universe is necessarily delivered in the Ian guage of mathematics; the stars in their courses are regulated...geometrical progressions of elasticity and pressure. The constitution of the universe, so far as it can be clearly apprehended by our intellect, thus assumes... | |
 | John Harris - Creation - 1854 - 316 pages
...is, man shall not kill ; the language of a Law of Nature is, a stone will fall to the earth." Here " all things are ordered by number, and weight, and...geometrical progressions of elasticity and pressure." L 2. As " the laws of nature," then, can only properly denote those rules by which God is pleased to... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1879 - 488 pages
...of the universe is the collective result of what are called the Laws of Nature. Dr. Whewell puts it, "All things are ordered by number and weight and measure...geometrical progressions of elasticity and pressure."* 27. Creation is limited in time. Sir William Thompson and the physicists make out that, assuming the... | |
 | 1833 - 798 pages
...which are subject to numerical measurement, and capable of being connected by mathematical properties. The legislation of the material universe is necessarily...geometrical progressions of elasticity and pressure. The constitution of the universe, so far as it can be clearly apprehended by our intellect, thus assumes... | |
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