| John Aikin - Biography - 1808 - 730 pages
...gravity, and of fermentation, to which almost all the motion we meet with in the world is- owing. It is probable, that God in the beginning formed matter...particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other preperties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end. for which he formed them... | |
| Greece - 1810 - 506 pages
...ness may be reckoned the property of all uncompounded matter, &c. All " these things considered, it is probable, that God in the beginning formed matter...solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, &c. These primitive par" tides being solid, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded... | |
| Science - 1815 - 514 pages
...Dalton has referred to the following observations of Sir Iiaac Newton : — " It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid,...impenetrable, move-able, particles, of such sizes and figures, anJ with such other properties, and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which... | |
| Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...gravity of the body, to which it is always proportional. Newton observes, that " it seems probable, God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy,...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... | |
| Science - 1815 - 508 pages
...1)alton has referred to the following observations of Sir Isaac Newton :— " It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, raoveable, particles,of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
| Science - 1815 - 520 pages
...Daltqn has referred to fhe following observations of Sir Isaac Newton : — " It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, mpveable, particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
| Science - 1818 - 514 pages
...nature, say* : " It teems probable to me, that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, inauy, hard, impenetrable, move-able particles, of such sizes...and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to tire end for which he formed them ; and that these primitive particles being solids, are incomparably... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 424 pages
...All things considered, it appears probable to me, that God in the beginning created matter in solid, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles; of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that these primitive particles, being solids,... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 426 pages
...All things considered, it appears probable to me, that God in the beginning created matter in solid, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles ; of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that these primitive particles, being solids,... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 408 pages
...that God in the beginning formed matter into solid, massy, impenetrable, moveable particles, or atoms, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduce to the end for which he formed them ; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are... | |
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