Essays to-, wards a Natural History of the Earth, and terrestrial bodies. Though he possessed much more knowledge of minerals than his predecessor, and on this account had greatly the advantage of him, he produced a work far less ingenious and interesting.... System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry ... - Seite 17von Friedrich Christian Accum, Thomas Cooper - 1814Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Samuel Miller - 1803 - 582 Seiten
...irregularity.* This " elegant romance" of BITRNET was succeeded by the work of his countryman, Mr, A^OODWARD, who, in 1695, published Essays towards a Natural History...took place at the flood; that on the gradual retiring ot a SULUVAN'S fiau of Nature, Tol. i. letter 6 r the wafers the various substances held in solution,... | |
| Samuel Miller - 1803 - 572 Seiten
...was succeeded by the work of his countryman, Mr. WOODWARD, who, in 1695, published Essays to-, wards a Natural History of the Earth, and terrestrial bodies....place at the flood; that on the gradual retiring of a SULLIVAN'S Vsno of ffature, vol. i. letter 0, the waters the various substances held in solution,... | |
| Samuel Miller - 1805 - 518 Seiten
...predecessor, and on this account had greatly the advantage of him, he produced a work far less ingeiiious and interesting. He also proceeded on the supposition...the coats of an onion. As this theory was soon found to contradict some of the plainest and most unquestionable facts which geologists observed, it has... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 470 Seiten
...top, and the heaviest next the centre, he consequently asserts, that it will not improbably follow, that all the substances of which the earth is composed were, once, in an actual state of dissolution. This universal dissolution he takes to have happened at the time of... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 Seiten
...top, and the heaviest next the centre, he consequently asserts, and it will not improbably follow, that all the substances of which the earth is composed, were once in an actual state of dissolution. This universal dissolution he takes to have happened at the time of... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 Seiten
...top, and the heaviest next the centre, he consequently asserts, and it will not improbably follow, that all the substances of which the earth is composed, were once in an actual state of dissolution. This universal dissolution he takes to have happened at the time of... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1862 - 702 Seiten
...top, and the heaviest next the centre, he consequently asserts, and it will not improbably follow, that all the substances of which the earth is composed, were once in an actual state of dissolution. This universal dissolution he takes to have happened at the time of... | |
| 1816 - 504 Seiten
...the geological phenomena, shall only insert such observations as may be necessary for my purpose. 1. All the substances of which the earth is composed were once in a state of atomic division. The waters of the ocean universally covered for a long period the whole mass, and... | |
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