| Graham Alan John Rogers - 1996 - 276 páginas
...the atoms were to break up then 'the Nature of Things depending on them would be changed'. He says Water and Earth composed of old worn Particles and...in the Beginning. And therefore, that Nature may be lasring, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in the various Separations and new Associations... | |
| A. Graham Cairns-Smith - 1996 - 346 páginas
...they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages: but should they wear away, or break in pieces, the nature of things depending...water and earth composed of entire particles in the beginning6. Magnificent, but hardly much of an advance on, say, Lucretius who also thought clearly... | |
| Bernard Pullman - 2001 - 420 páginas
...they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages: but should thev wear away, or break in pieces, the nature of things depending...particles and fragments of particles, would not be the same nature and texture now. with water and earth composed of entire particles in the beginning.... | |
| Victor Guillemin - 2003 - 388 páginas
...they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages. But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the nature of things depending...particles and fragments of particles would not be ot the same nature and texture now with water and earth composed of entire particles at the beginning.... | |
| Abhay Ashtekar, Robert S. Cohen, Don Howard, J. Renn, S. Sarkar, A. Shimony - 2003 - 680 páginas
...they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages: But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them would be changed. What is a remarkably positive feature in these passages is the preoccupation with "chemical identity."... | |
| Leila Haaparanta, Ilkka Niiniluoto - 2003 - 650 páginas
...they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages: But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed ... And therefore, that Nature may be lasting [ie. in order that the laws of nature continue to hold],... | |
| Philip A. Cusick - 2005 - 194 páginas
...later termed "solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles . . . [which] should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed" (Oppenheimer, 1989, p. 143). Progress accelerated in the early 1800s when Dalton showed the atomic... | |
| Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie - 2007
...they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages: But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed.3' This is one of the most influential pieces of writing in the history of science. And it... | |
| Ida Freund - 680 páginas
...may comjxjse bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages : but should they wear away, or break in pieces, the nature of things depending...water and earth composed of entire particles, in the l>eginning. And therefore that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed... | |
| 1868 - 616 páginas
...they mny compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending...would be changed. Water and earth composed of old worn-out particles would not be of the samo nature and texture now with water and earth composed of... | |
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