 | David Brewster - 1854 - 334 oldal
...vegetables and putrefaction, and converted into dry earth, may be continually replaced and supplied.1 For all vegetables grow wholly from fluids, and then...of it, and which is required to sustain the life of everything."2 1 It is obvious, from this passage, that Sir Isaac Newton believed in a plurality of... | |
 | David Brewster - 1876 - 316 oldal
...obvious, from this passage, that Sir Isaac Newton believed in a plurality of worlds. See Chap. IV. vegetables grow wholly from fluids, and then are,...of it, and which is required to sustain the life of everything."1 According to these views of our great philosopher, the use of comets is to fill the whole... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 832 oldal
...putrefaction ; and a sort of slime is always found to settle at the bottom of putrefied fluids ; and hence it is that the bulk of the solid earth is continually increased ; and the fluids, if they are not supplied from without, must be in a continual decrease,... | |
 | 1877 - 826 oldal
...would be equal to the heat which is always found to settle at the bottom of putrefied fluids ; and hence it is that the bulk of the solid earth is continually increased ; and the fluids, if they are not supplied from without, must be in a continual decrease,... | |
 | Sara Schechner - 1999 - 386 oldal
...putrefaction; and a sort of slime is always found to settle at the bottom of putrefied fluids; and hence it is that the bulk of the solid earth is continually increased; and the fluids, if they are not supplied from without, must be in a continual decrease,... | |
 | Frank T. Boyle - 2000 - 262 oldal
...putrefaction; and a sort of slime is always found to settle at the bottom of putref1ed fluids; and hence it is that the bulk of the solid earth is continually increased; and the fluids, if they ate not supplied from without, must be in a continual decrease,... | |
 | Gordon Fisher - 2006 - 230 oldal
...putrefaction; and a sort of slime is always found to settle at the bottom of putrefied fluids; and hence it is that the bulk of the solid earth is continually increased; and the fluids, if they are not supplied from without, must be in continual decrease, and... | |
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... fluids; and hence it is that the bulk of the solid earth is continually increased; and the fluids, if they are not supplied from without, must be in a continual decrease, and quite fail at last. I suspect, moreover, that it is chiefly from the comets... 