Facts and Observations Towards Forming a New Theory of the Earth

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A. Constable, 1819 - 335 pagina's
 

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Pagina 307 - Pessima enim res est errorum Apotheosis, et pro peste intellectus habenda est, si vanis accedat veneratio. Huic autem vanitati nonnulli ex modernis summa levitate ita indulserunt, ut in primo capitulo Geneseos et in libro Job et aliis scripturis sacris, philosophiam naturalem fundare conati sint ; inter viva quserentes mortua.
Pagina 126 - From a selection of 37 of the best of the experiments made on the length of the second's pendulum in different latitudes, La Place finds that the increase of gravity, from the equator to the poles, follows the law which theory points out as the most simple ; and hence he conceives, that the density of the layers, of which the mass of the earth consists, must augment regularly from the surface to the centre ; a condition from which he thinks it reasonable to infer the original fluidity of the whole...
Pagina 304 - ... the latter are, in all cases, the most powerful, and, in respect of the former, are like living in comparison of dead forces. Hence the law of decay is one which suffers no exception : The elements of all bodies were once loose and unconnected, and to the same state nature has appointed that they should all return.
Pagina 38 - An attempt to establish a pure scientific System of Mineralogy by the application of the Electro-chemical Theory an'd the Chemical Proportions.
Pagina i - FACTS and OBSERVATIONS towards forming a NEW THEORY of the EARTH. By WILLIAM KNIGHT, LL.D. Belfast.
Pagina 307 - Its character is written, and its very physiognomy appears in that dignified and oracular censure which he himself has quoted from the works of Bacon : " Tanto magis haec vanitas inhibenda venit et coercenda. quia ex divinorum et humanorum male-Sana admixtione, non solum educitur philosophia phantastica, sed etiam religio haeretica.
Pagina 230 - Prsesentiorem et conspicimus Deum Per invias rupes, fera per juga, Clivosque prseruptos, sonantes Inter aquas, nemorumque noctem...
Pagina 286 - ... motion backward, and forward, on the materials of these layers, will very much assist the accuracy of their level. It is not, however, meant to deny, that the form of the bottom might influence, in a certain degree, the stratification of the substances deposited on it.
Pagina 267 - He ascertained, 1st, that the outgoings (the upper extremities as they appear at the surface of the earth) of the newer strata are generally lower than the outgoings of the older, from granite downwards to the alluvial depositions, and this, not in particular spots, but around the whole globe.
Pagina 125 - ... afterwards consolidated into stone ; such a body, in the course of ages, must acquire a surface every where, at right angles to the direction of gravity, and consequently more or less approximating to a spheroid of equilibrium. The natural history of the Earth gives...

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