 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1870 - 608 páginas
...condensation of Water on parting with its Heat have already anticipated me in these speculations ; and it does not appear to me that there is anything which...preserve animal life, than this wonderful contrivance; for though the extensiveness and immutability of the general laws of Nature impress our minds with... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - 1871 - 750 páginas
...condensation of water on parting with its Heat have already anticipated me in these speculations ; and it does not appear to me that there is anything which...preserve animal life, than this wonderful contrivance ; for though the extensiveness and immutability of the general laws of Nature impress our minds with... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1890 - 644 páginas
...he devoted a whole chapter to speculations regarding it. ' It does not appear to me,' he writes, ' that there is anything which human sagacity can fathom,...of the universe to preserve animal life, than this Fw. 42. wonderful contrivance.' Rumford's enthusiasm was excited by considerations like the following... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1896 - 236 páginas
...lake, is there congealed, thus throwing a protecting roof over the life below. 318. Count Kumford, one of the most solid of scientific men, writes in...319. ' Let me beg the attention of my readers while 1 endeavour to investigate this most interesting subject: and let me at the same time bespeak his candour... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1905 - 638 páginas
...that he devoted a whole chapter to speculations regarding it. 'It does not appear to me,' he writes, ' that there is anything which human sagacity can fathom,...arrangement of the universe to preserve animal life, than thia Flo. 42. wonderful contrivance.' Rumford's enthusiasm was excited by considerations like the following... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1910 - 528 páginas
...would sink to the bottom, and all lakes would be frozen solid and not melted during the summer. "It does not appear to me that there is anything which...the general arrangement of the universe to preserve life, than this wonderful contrivance," that water forms the only exception to the universal law that... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1915 - 634 páginas
...that he devoted a whole chapter to speculations regarding it. 'It does not appear to me,' he writes, ' that there is anything which human sagacity can fathom,...wisdom of the Creator, and of the special care He lias taken in the general arrangement of the universe to preserve animal life, than this Fio. 42. wonderful... | |
 | D. B. Hammond - 236 páginas
...variations of density of water near its freezing-point. This particular fact struck him as a "striking and palpable proof of the wisdom of the Creator, and of...arrangement of the universe to preserve animal life." Self-assertive in other directions, he was in his scientific work humble, being, as he wrote, one of... | |
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It does not appear to me', he writes, 'that there is anything which human sagacity can fathom, within the wide-extended bounds of the visible creation, which affords a more striking or more palpable proof of the wisdom of the Creator, and of the special... 