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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... common observer . The term conchology comprehends the study of all animals which have a testace- ous covering , whether inhabitants of the marine element , fresh water , or the land . Testaceology is a term synonymous with conchology ...
... common observer . The term conchology comprehends the study of all animals which have a testace- ous covering , whether inhabitants of the marine element , fresh water , or the land . Testaceology is a term synonymous with conchology ...
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... of growth , than may be imagined ; of this we could adduce many very remarkable instances ; a few it may be necessary to mention , to guard the common observer from forming hasty and erroneous conlu- sions . Many of CONCHOLOGY .
... of growth , than may be imagined ; of this we could adduce many very remarkable instances ; a few it may be necessary to mention , to guard the common observer from forming hasty and erroneous conlu- sions . Many of CONCHOLOGY .
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... common muscle . Sides , the lateral parts of the valves distinguish- ed by the epithet of right and left side ; in common language , the two valves of a shell are called the sides , but it is not un- derstood as a term in conchology in ...
... common muscle . Sides , the lateral parts of the valves distinguish- ed by the epithet of right and left side ; in common language , the two valves of a shell are called the sides , but it is not un- derstood as a term in conchology in ...
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... common garden snail , frequenting moist shaded situations , and is generally well known . It is very probable this is the Rhodia of authors , but as in the des- cription of that species nothing is men- tioned of the reflected lip , and ...
... common garden snail , frequenting moist shaded situations , and is generally well known . It is very probable this is the Rhodia of authors , but as in the des- cription of that species nothing is men- tioned of the reflected lip , and ...
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... . This species very much resembles H. Albolabris , but is umbilicated , and toothed on the pillar lip . It is much less common . It is referable to the genus Cepolis , Montf 7. H. minuta . Shell rather thick ; spire convex CONCHOLOGY .
... . This species very much resembles H. Albolabris , but is umbilicated , and toothed on the pillar lip . It is much less common . It is referable to the genus Cepolis , Montf 7. H. minuta . Shell rather thick ; spire convex CONCHOLOGY .
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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.