The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, Volume 8A. and C. Black, 1830 - Geology |
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Page 261 - Messrs Jomard, Jollois and Devilliers heard, at sunrise, in a monument of granite, placed at the centre of the spot on which the Palace of Karnak stands, a noise resembling that of a string breaking.
Page 324 - ... in the diluvial strata. And, whoever dwells upon this subject must be convinced, that the present order of things and the comparatively recent existence of man, as the master of the globe, is as certain as the destruction of a former and a different order and the extinction of a number of living forms which have now no types in being, and which have left their remains wonderful monuments of the revolutions of nature.
Page 320 - ... says Sir H. Davy, appears to have been a fluid mass, with an immense atmosphere, revolving in space round the sun. By its cooling, a portion of its atmosphere was probably condensed into water, which occupied a part of its surface. In this state no forms of life, such as now belong to our system, could have inhabited it.
Page 207 - Middlesex, soap maker ; for a new preparation or manufacture, of a certain material, produced from a vegetable substance, and the application thereof to the purposes of affording light, and other uses.
Page 142 - During this bustle we shot a wild peacock, which measured six feet from the tip of one wing to that of the other.
Page 323 - In those strata which are deepest and which must consequently be supposed to be the earliest deposited, forms even of vegetable life are rare; shells and vegetable remains are found in the next order; the bones of fishes and oviparous reptiles exist in the following class; the remains of birds, with those of the same genera mentioned before, in the next order; those of quadrupeds of extinct species, in a still more recent class...
Page 227 - It was as if while he had been rendering all these services to his fellow-men he had no real love or regard for them. It would appear as if the vile passions which he had observed in the miserable objects committed to his care, or those other passions, not less vile, which his success and fame had excited among his rivals, had imbittered him towards human nature.
Page 321 - As the temperature of the globe became lower, species of the oviparous reptiles were created to inhabit it ; and the turtle, crocodile, and various gigantic animals of the Sauri kind seem to have haunted the bays and waters of the primitive lands. But in this state of things there was no order of events similar to the present, — the crust of the globe was exceedingly slender, and the source of fire a small distance from the surface. In consequence of contraction in one part of the mass, cavities...
Page 386 - English as a nation is preeminently active, and the natives of no other country follow their objects with so much force, fire, and constancy. And, as human powers are limited, there are few examples of very distinguished men living in this country to old age: they usually fail, droop, and die before they have attained the period naturallymarked for the end of human existence.
Page 42 - Molecules, appear to be spherical, or nearly so, and to be between l-20,000dth and l-30,000dth of an inch in diameter; and that other particles of considerably greater and various size, and either of similar or of very different figure, also present analogous motions in like circumstances.