On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man: Principally with Reference to the Supply of His Wants, and the Exercise of His Intellectual FacultiesWilliam Pickering, 1833 - 375 من الصفحات |
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... substance , are in their occasional effects the most powerful agents of nature . For , omit- ting the consideration of their silent but wonder- ful operation , as exhibited in the process of vege- tation , and in many other processes ...
... substance , are in their occasional effects the most powerful agents of nature . For , omit- ting the consideration of their silent but wonder- ful operation , as exhibited in the process of vege- tation , and in many other processes ...
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... substance is chemically the same throughout its whole extent . Every atom of a crystallized mass of gypsum consists ... substance . In their form we see nothing like the mathematical precision of crys- tallization ; and in their ...
... substance is chemically the same throughout its whole extent . Every atom of a crystallized mass of gypsum consists ... substance . In their form we see nothing like the mathematical precision of crys- tallization ; and in their ...
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... substance constituting those joints : and the projecting parts or processes of the se- veral vertebræ , which serve for the insertion of the muscles and tendons which are to move the whole , are differently disposed in the neck , the ...
... substance constituting those joints : and the projecting parts or processes of the se- veral vertebræ , which serve for the insertion of the muscles and tendons which are to move the whole , are differently disposed in the neck , the ...
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... substances of a spherical form , so as to touch “ them with every part of itself ; but it also can " securely hold substances of a plane or of a concave surface ; and , consequently , it can " hold substances of any form . 66 66 And ...
... substances of a spherical form , so as to touch “ them with every part of itself ; but it also can " securely hold substances of a plane or of a concave surface ; and , consequently , it can " hold substances of any form . 66 66 And ...
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... substances still larger we " take up with three fingers , and so on with " four , or with all the five fingers , or even with " the whole hand : all which we could not do , " were not the hand divided , and divided pre- cisely as it is ...
... substances still larger we " take up with three fingers , and so on with " four , or with all the five fingers , or even with " the whole hand : all which we could not do , " were not the hand divided , and divided pre- cisely as it is ...
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