 | 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 1122
...followed the natural tendency of fluids, they would gravitate to our feet, when we stood, or to our backs, when we lay. The cause why they do not, may...is evident that they derive that power from life. Mechanical powers which exert particular .effects. on inanimate bodies are resisted by life. Friction,... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...bodies followed the natural tendency of fluids, they would descend to our feet, when we stood, or to our backs, when we lay. The cause, why they do not, may...body, actually is the cause of thickening a living one. The skin on a labourer's hand is thickened and hardened, to save it from the effects of constant... | |
 | 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...bodies followed the. natural tendency of fluids they would descend to our feet, when we stood, or to our backs, when we lay. The cause, why they do not, may...body, actually is the cause of thickening a living one. The skin on a labourer's hand is thickened and hardened, to save it from the effects of constant... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...bodies followed the natural tendency of fluids, they would descend to our feet when we stood, or to our backs when we lay. The cause why they do not may be...from life. Life resists the effects of mechanical power. Friction, which will thin and wear a dead body, actually is the cause of thickening a living... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 232
...bodies followed the natural tendency of fluids, they would descend to our feet when we stood, or to our backs when we lay. The cause why they do not may be...is evident that they derive that power from life. 6. Life resists the effects of mechanical powers. — Friction, which will thin and wear away a dead... | |
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... are .now familiarly spoken of by vegetable physiologists as respiratory organs. What life is, we know not ; what life does, we know well. Life counteracts the laws of gravity. If the fluids of our bodies followed the natural tendency of fluids, they... 