| Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1856 - 340 Seiten
...such as are not usually "divided. Newton's well known words are these : — " It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid,...hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the... | |
| Charles Baker - 1857 - 438 Seiten
...were brought 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 Seiten
...regarded 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... | |
| Edward Hitchcock - 1857 - 446 Seiten
...regarded 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... | |
| William Whewell - 1858 - 352 Seiten
...mind. At the close of his Opticks he says, ' All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid,...hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to... | |
| Andrew Ure - 1860 - 972 Seiten
...of matter 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... | |
| William Somerville Orr - 1860 - 94 Seiten
...thirty-first Query, subjoined to his Treatise on Optics, fourth edition, p. 350) :— "It secms to me probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenctrable, movcablo particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in... | |
| George Wilson - 1862 - 410 Seiten
...exposition of one of 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 - 1863 - 366 Seiten
...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 - 1864 - 422 Seiten
...the Vis Inertia, or in the following query at the close of the Optics : 18 " It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid,...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... | |
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