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 FacultiesCarey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835 - 280 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة ix
... vegetable , and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of diges- tion , and thereby of conversion ; the construction of the hand of man , and an infinite variety of other arguments ; as also by discoveries ancient and modern , in arts , sciences ...
... vegetable , and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of diges- tion , and thereby of conversion ; the construction of the hand of man , and an infinite variety of other arguments ; as also by discoveries ancient and modern , in arts , sciences ...
الصفحة x
... VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY . THE REV . WILLIAM BUCKLAND , D. D. F. R. S. Canon of Christ Church and Prefessor of Geology in the University of Oxford . ON GEOLOGY AND MINEROLOGY . THE REV . WILLIAM KIRBY , M. A. F. R. S. ON THE HISTORY ...
... VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY . THE REV . WILLIAM BUCKLAND , D. D. F. R. S. Canon of Christ Church and Prefessor of Geology in the University of Oxford . ON GEOLOGY AND MINEROLOGY . THE REV . WILLIAM KIRBY , M. A. F. R. S. ON THE HISTORY ...
الصفحة xii
... VEGETABLES TO THE PHYS- ICAL CONDITION OF MAN , SECT . I. General Observations on the Vegetable Kingdom , II . The Cocoa - nut Tree , including the For- mation of Coral Reefs , III . Vegetables as a Source of Food , IV . Vegetables as ...
... VEGETABLES TO THE PHYS- ICAL CONDITION OF MAN , SECT . I. General Observations on the Vegetable Kingdom , II . The Cocoa - nut Tree , including the For- mation of Coral Reefs , III . Vegetables as a Source of Food , IV . Vegetables as ...
الصفحة 15
... vegetable and mineral : but for the purpose of this treatise it will be necessary to take into our account the phenomena of the atmosphere also . The atmosphere principally consists of the air which we respire : ( a form of matter so ...
... vegetable and mineral : but for the purpose of this treatise it will be necessary to take into our account the phenomena of the atmosphere also . The atmosphere principally consists of the air which we respire : ( a form of matter so ...
الصفحة 16
... vegetable kingdom differ very remarkably from those of the mineral , both in form and substance . In their form we see nothing like the mathematical precision iof crystallization ; and in their substance they differ w dely , according ...
... vegetable kingdom differ very remarkably from those of the mineral , both in form and substance . In their form we see nothing like the mathematical precision iof crystallization ; and in their substance they differ w dely , according ...
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adaptation afford animals application Aristotle arts atmosphere birds body brain called camel capable carbon carbonic acid cetacea character colour common consequence considered coral coral reefs Cuvier degree derived earth effect employed existence extent external world Fahrenheit goitre habits hand heat human individual instance instinct intel intellectual faculties kingdom Lamarck Lucretius lusus mammæ ment metals mind mineral mode moral nature observation organs oviparous peculiar philosophical physical powers present principle probably produced properties proportion purpose quadrupeds quantity reference resemblance respect sal ammoniac sense species structure substance supply surface temperature tion treatise various vegetable vertebræ viviparous wants whole ἀλλὰ γὰρ γένος δὲ καὶ ἐν ἐστὶ ἐστιν ἔχει καὶ τὰ κατὰ οἱ οἷον ὅσα οὐ οὐκ πάντα περὶ πρὸς τὰ μὲν τὰς ταῦτα τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τῶν τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ζῴων ὡς ὥσπερ