Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History,: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. From the French. With Notes by the Translator. In Ten Volumes..J.S. Barr, 1792 - Natural history |
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Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History: Containing a Theory of ..., Volume 5 Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 223 - There are ftill others, and in great numbers, which are at firfl a kind of animals, then become a fpecies of vegetables, and again return alternately to their vegetable ftate. The eels in pafte have no other origin than the union of the organic particles of the moil eiTential part of the grain. The firit eels that appear are certainly not produced by other eels ; but tho" they are not propagated themfelves, they fail not to engender other living eels.
Page 321 - Our bodies, and matters in general, therefore, have neither permanent, real, nor general properties, by which we can attain a- certain knowledge of them.
Page 222 - ... there are, perhaps, as many beings, either living or vegetating, which are produced by the fortuitous afTemblage of organic molecules, as by a conftant and fucceffive generation. 'It Is to thofe productions we fliould apply the axiom of the ancients, " Corruptio unius, generatio alterius.
Page 229 - Thefe feminal liquors are both extracts from all parts of the body, and in the mixture of them there is every thing neceffary to form a certain number of males and females...
Page 222 - ... to imitate animals ; others imitate vegetables by their manner of growing and extending...
Page 264 - ... branch of a tree. In all embryos the middle of the head and...
Page 344 - ... they had their arms free, and could move their heads and bend their bodies, without falling or hurting themfelves.
Page 212 - But what muft contribute to the long duration of their life, is, that their bones are fofter than thofe of other animals, and do not harden with age.
Page 194 - ... the nutrition of the foetus already formed by the mixture of the liquor of ihe two fexes jn a particular parfof this matrix.
Page 127 - Therefore, the whole machine confifted in an external, tranfparent, and cartilaginous cafe, whofe upper extremity is terminated by a round head, formed by the cafe itfelf, and which performs the office of a valve!.