 | William Enfield - Astronomy - 1811 - 476 pages
...one of these animalcula has been found, by calculation, to be as much smaller than a globe of the ^th of an inch in diameter; as that globe is smaller than...particles be compared with the particles of light, they will be found to exceed them in bulk as much as mountains do single grains of sand. 'These instances... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1815 - 388 pages
...calculated that a particle of blood of one of these aniniacula is as much smaller than a globe one tenth of an inch in diameter, as that globe is smaller than...that they would be found to exceed them in bulk as much as mountains do single grains of sand : In thousand species of the insect kind! Lost to the naked... | |
 | Horse racing - 1815 - 442 pages
...found that a particle of the blood of animals, must be as much smaller thun a globe of the tenth part of an inch in diameter, as that globe is smaller than the whole earth; and yet, if these particles be compared to the atoms of light, they will \>ยป found to exceed them... | |
 | James Ferguson - Eclipses - 1823 - 406 pages
...calculation, that a particle of their blood must be as much smaller than a globe of the tenth part of an inch in diameter, as that globe is smaller than the whole earth ; and yet, if these particles be compared with the particles of light, they will be found to exceed... | |
 | Luke Herbert - Industrial arts - 1824 - 394 pages
...these animalculse, has been found, by calculation, to be as much smaller than a globe of the l-10th of an inch in diameter, as that globe is smaller than the whole earth. 5. Mobility is that property of matter by which it is capable of being transferred, or moved, from... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1825 - 310 pages
...seem to approach to an idea of the infinite divisibility of matter. It has indeed been calculated that a particle of blood of one of these animalcula is...that they would be found to exceed them in bulk as much as mountains do single grains Lost to the naked eye, so wondrous small In thousand species of... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Physics - 1826 - 236 pages
...of these animalcule has been found, by calculation, to be as much smaller than aglobe of the l-10th of an inch in diameter, as that globe is smaller than the whole earth. 4. The natural divisions of matter are still more wonderful. In odoriferous bodies, a surprising subtilty... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1838 - 348 pages
...animalcule has been found, by calculation, to be as much smaller than a globe of the 1 10th of ait inch in diameter, as that globe is smaller than the whole earth. 4. The natural divisions of matter are still more wonderful. In odoriferous bodies a surprising subtility... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 554 pages
...calculation, that a particle of their blood must be as much smaller than a globe of the tenth part of an inch in diameter, as that globe is smaller than the whole earth ; and yet if these particles be compared with the particles of light they will be found to exceed them... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1852 - 400 pages
...of matter. It has indeed been calculated, that a particle of the blood of one of these animalculee is as much smaller than a globe one-tenth of an inch...that they would be found to exceed them in bulk as much as mountains do single grains of sand. I might enumerate many other instances of the same kind,... | |
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It has indeed been calculated that a particle of b_lood of one of these animalcula is as much smaller than a globe one-tenth of an inch in diameter, as that globe is smaller than the whole earth. Nevertheless, if these particles be compared with the particles... 