 | Peter Mark Roget - Biology - 1834 - 684 pages
...The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge ; and the water roaring in its passage through that...inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing through the whale's heart. An anatomist who understood the structure of the heart, might say beforehand... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1836 - 416 pages
...The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the waterworks at London Bridge ; and the water roaring in its passage through that...measured a foot diameter. Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke with an immense velocity, through a tube of a foot diameter.... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1836 - 480 pages
...The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge; and the water roaring in its passage through that...measured a foot diameter. Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke with an immense velocity, through a tube of a foot diameter.... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 424 pages
...is larger in the bore," says Dr. Paley, " than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge ; and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe, is inferior in impetuosity and velocity to the blood gushing through the whale's heart." But different as they are,... | |
 | William Paley - 1837 - 428 pages
...is, when we come to very large animals. The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the waterworks at London-Bridge ; and the water...measured a foot diameter. Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with an immense velocity, through a tube of a foot diameter.... | |
 | W. Paley - 1837 - 116 pages
...The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge ; and the water roaring in its passage through that...velocity, to the blood gushing from the whale's heart. Here is Dr Hunter's account of the dissection of a whale : — " The aorta measured a foot diameter.... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 264 pages
...larger in the bore than the main-pipe of the water-works at London Bridge ; and the roaring in the passage through that pipe is inferior, in impetus...velocity, to the blood gushing from the whale's heart.' He cares not whence he fetches his illustrations, provided they are to the purpose. The laminag of... | |
 | William Paley - Clergy - 1838 - 586 pages
...very large animals. The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water works at London-Bridge ; and the water roaring in its passage...measured a foot diameter. Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke with an immense velocity, through a tube of a foot diameter.... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - Adventure and adventurers - 1838 - 672 pages
...The! aorta B2 of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge; and the water roaring in its passage through that...measured a foot diameter; ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with an immense velocity, through a tube of a foot diameter.'... | |
 | 1838 - 590 pages
...main pipe of the waterworks at London Bridge, and that the water roaring in its passage through the pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from a whale's heart. Dr. Hunter, in nis account of Ihe dissection of a whale, states that the aorta measured... | |
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Consider what an affair this is, when we come to very large animals. The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the waterworks at London Bridge ; and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior, in impetus and... 
