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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... 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 , but is of later origin ...
... 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 , but is of later origin ...
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... terms employed . These , except such as relate to subordinate characters , or specifical distinctions , and which require no explanation in this place , may be sim- plified and reduced to a small number . In the selection of these terms ...
... terms employed . These , except such as relate to subordinate characters , or specifical distinctions , and which require no explanation in this place , may be sim- plified and reduced to a small number . In the selection of these terms ...
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... terms he bestows on the differ- ent parts of bivalves , reverses this position of the shell , and describes the beaks ... term in conchology in this view . Margin , or limb , the whole cir- cumference or outline of the shell , when laid ...
... terms he bestows on the differ- ent parts of bivalves , reverses this position of the shell , and describes the beaks ... term in conchology in this view . Margin , or limb , the whole cir- cumference or outline of the shell , when laid ...
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... terms proposed for those are applicable for the most part to the multivalves . The following require more explicit mention . Base , that part of the shell upon which it rests in the lepas tribe , it implies the part immediately seated ...
... terms proposed for those are applicable for the most part to the multivalves . The following require more explicit mention . Base , that part of the shell upon which it rests in the lepas tribe , it implies the part immediately seated ...
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... terms as possible ought to be banished from the language of Natural History , we would therefore propose , that the terms outer lip and pillar lip be substituted by Labrum and Labium ; these would be equally expressive , and occupy less ...
... terms as possible ought to be banished from the language of Natural History , we would therefore propose , that the terms outer lip and pillar lip be substituted by Labrum and Labium ; these would be equally expressive , and occupy less ...
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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.