A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France, Volume 1T. Becket, 1794 - Eighteenth century |
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... mineral waters --- Phlogisticated air --- phlogiston --- its existence , in a fixed or in a free state --- combined with air --- nitrous air , its characters and effects --- Dephlogisticated air , whence obtained , its proper- ties ...
... mineral waters --- Phlogisticated air --- phlogiston --- its existence , in a fixed or in a free state --- combined with air --- nitrous air , its characters and effects --- Dephlogisticated air , whence obtained , its proper- ties ...
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... Minerals -- rocks and stones the effect of crystallization by water --- natural process of crystallization --- Con- stituent parts , characters and formation of various kinds of stones and earths . LETTER XXX . Chymical characters of ...
... Minerals -- rocks and stones the effect of crystallization by water --- natural process of crystallization --- Con- stituent parts , characters and formation of various kinds of stones and earths . LETTER XXX . Chymical characters of ...
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... minerals ; and also of the sea , rivers and springs ; with an account of the universal deluge , and of the effects it had upon the earth . " Woodward , " says the illustrious French naturalist , " wanted to erect an immense edifice upon ...
... minerals ; and also of the sea , rivers and springs ; with an account of the universal deluge , and of the effects it had upon the earth . " Woodward , " says the illustrious French naturalist , " wanted to erect an immense edifice upon ...
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... minerals , sulphur , and pyrites exist in mountains than in plains . Mountains are more subject to the impressions of the air , and receive more rain and moisture , by which mineral substances are capable of being fermented to such a ...
... minerals , sulphur , and pyrites exist in mountains than in plains . Mountains are more subject to the impressions of the air , and receive more rain and moisture , by which mineral substances are capable of being fermented to such a ...
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... mineral substances , with a few volcanic exceptions , point with a legible index to water , as to the chief agent of their formation . But the very principle of specific gravity , upon which these theories are attempted to be accounted ...
... mineral substances , with a few volcanic exceptions , point with a legible index to water , as to the chief agent of their formation . But the very principle of specific gravity , upon which these theories are attempted to be accounted ...
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aerial acid æther alkali Alps ancients animal appears aqua fortis argillaceous Aristotle atmosphere atoms attraction Bergman Buffon burning calcareous called cause chymists clouds cold colour combination combustion common air condensed consequently contain contrary crystal degree of heat dephlogisticated air dissolved doctrine earth effect elastic fluids electric element elevation Epicurus evaporation exhalations existence fixed air force globe granite gravity greater gypsum hence Imaüs inflammable inflammable air instance iron Kirwan less light likewise magnesia mass matter melted mephitic metals mineral moon motion mountains nature neral never Newton nitrous acid observed ocean particles phænomena philosophers phlogisticated phlogiston Priestley principle produced properties proportion pure air putrefaction quantity quartz rain rarefaction reason rivers salt Saussure says shells shew siliceous snow solar rays solid stones strata stratum substances subterraneous subtile supposed surface tain thing tides tion transparent vapour vegetable vital air vitriolic volcanos weight winds
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Page 50 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Page 47 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Page 108 - While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed.
Page 107 - Space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them ; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first Creation.
Page 108 - But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed. Water and Earth, composed of old worn Particles and Fragments of Particles, would not be of the same Nature and Texture now, with Water and Earth composed of entire 817 Particles in the Beginning. And therefore, that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in the various Separations and new Associations and Motions of these permanent Particles...
Page 107 - 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, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself...
Page 114 - Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues, or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great Part of the Phenomena of Nature?
Page 108 - Particles, would not be of the same Nature and Texture now, with Water and Earth composed of entire Particles in the Beginning. And therefore, that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in the various Separations and new Associations and Motions of these permanent Particles; compound Bodies being apt to break, not in the midst of solid Particles, but where those Particles are laid together, and only touch in a few Points.
Page 313 - But such a personification of "force" is a remnant of barbaric thought, in no wise sanctioned by physical science. When astronomy speaks of two planets as attracting each other with a " force " which varies directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances...
Page 115 - Forms of Things, but as general Laws of Nature, by which the Things themselves are form'd; their Truth appearing to us by Phaenomena, though their Causes be not yet discover'd.