British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Том 4Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
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... botany , river weed , a genus of the Cryptogamia Alge . Essential character : unequal tubercles , in very long capillary filaments . Twenty - one species are recited in Linnæus's system of vegeta- bles . These are all inhabitants of the ...
... botany , river weed , a genus of the Cryptogamia Alge . Essential character : unequal tubercles , in very long capillary filaments . Twenty - one species are recited in Linnæus's system of vegeta- bles . These are all inhabitants of the ...
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... botany , the name of one of the orders of Linnæus's frag- ments of a natural method , consisting of plants , whose female flowers , placed at a distance from the male , either on the same or distinct roots , are formed into a cone . Of ...
... botany , the name of one of the orders of Linnæus's frag- ments of a natural method , consisting of plants , whose female flowers , placed at a distance from the male , either on the same or distinct roots , are formed into a cone . Of ...
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... botany , a genus of the Monadelphia Decandria class and or- der . Natural order of Dumosæ . Tere- bintaceæ , Jussieu . Essential character : style one , stigma simple ; capsules two- valved , one - celled , one seeded . There are four ...
... botany , a genus of the Monadelphia Decandria class and or- der . Natural order of Dumosæ . Tere- bintaceæ , Jussieu . Essential character : style one , stigma simple ; capsules two- valved , one - celled , one seeded . There are four ...
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... botany , twisted plants . The name of the thirteenth order in Lin- næus's fragments of a natural method , consisting of plants which have a single petal that is twisted or bent toward one side . This order is divided into plants with ...
... botany , twisted plants . The name of the thirteenth order in Lin- næus's fragments of a natural method , consisting of plants which have a single petal that is twisted or bent toward one side . This order is divided into plants with ...
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... botany , lily of the valley , a genus of the Hexandria Mono- gynia class and order . Natural order of Sarmentacæ . Asparagi , Jussieu . Essen- tial character : corolla six - cleft ; berry spotted , three - celled . There are eleven ...
... botany , lily of the valley , a genus of the Hexandria Mono- gynia class and order . Natural order of Sarmentacæ . Asparagi , Jussieu . Essen- tial character : corolla six - cleft ; berry spotted , three - celled . There are eleven ...
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Страница 28 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them; and that these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to...
Страница 28 - And therefore, that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations and new associations and motions of these permanent particles; compound bodies being apt to break not in the midst of solid particles, but where those particles are laid together and only touch in a few points.
Страница 28 - ... the nature of things depending on them would be changed. Water and earth composed of old worn particles and fragments of particles, would not be of the same nature and texture now with water and earth composed of entire particles in the beginning. And therefore that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations and new associations and motions of these permanent particles...
Страница 28 - End for which he form'd them; and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces...
Страница 14 - The solidity of a cylinder is equal to the area of its base multiplied by its altitude.
Страница 28 - ... even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one, in the first creation. While the particles continue entire, 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.