 All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space,...  The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History - Page 429by William Whewell - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Robert Hare - Bible and spiritualism - 1855 - 556 pages
...second, as 2,500,000 to 1. Newton's definition of material particles was as follows : 1772. "It secms probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
 | James David Forbes - Mathematics - 1856 - 218 pages
...i. Newton's conjecture is expressed in these words : — " All things considered, it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid,...massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of snch sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - Religion and science - 1857 - 446 pages
...by philosophers as in reality untrue. With Sir Isaac Newton, they now mostly consider it " probable that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
 | Charles Baker - Education - 1857 - 438 pages
...together so as to produce the various forms of nature. Sir Isaac Newton taught, that " it seems probable that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, immovable particles, of such size and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions... | |
 | EDWARD HITCHCOCK - 1857 - 436 pages
...by philosophers as in reality untrue. With Sir Isaac Newton, they now mostly consider it " probable that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 972 pages
...are formed. Sir Isaac Newton thus expresses himself: — " All things considered, it stems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions... | |
 | George Wilson - Chemistry - 1862 - 408 pages
...the ablest of Dalton's predecessors : — ' All things considered,' says Newton, ' it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to... | |
 | Worthington Hooker - Science - 1863 - 366 pages
...analyses of it we can. no more determine what matter is than we can what spirit is. Newton supposed "that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable particles." This he believed to be true of liquids, and even of gases, as well as solids. In the gas... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Science - 1864 - 438 pages
...seen in his account of the Vis Inertite, or in the following query at the close of the Optics : i8 " It seems probable to me that God in the beginning...massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such size and figures, and with such properties and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1864 - 452 pages
...would seem to have had Lucr. in mind when near the end of his optics, ed. Horsley iv 260, he wrote 'it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid massy hard impenetrable mo >Ue particles, of such sizes and figures and with such other prope and in such proportion to space,... | |
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