 ... and in certain definite directions; and that the pyramidal form is the result of this play of attraction and repulsion. While, then, the blocks of Egypt were laid down by a power external to themselves, these molecular blocks of salt are self-posited,...  Scientific Addresses - Page 11by John Tyndall - 1870 - 74 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1879 - 822 lehte
...water under evaporation will, by molecular force, form itself into similar pyramids. These molecules are " self-posited," " being fixed in their places...by the forces with which they act upon each other." Here creeps in his first fallacy, namely : the assumption, which no theist is bound to concede, that... | |
 | 1868 - 978 lehte
...the result of this play of attraction and repulsion. While then the blocks of Egypt were laid down by a power external to themselves, these molecular...substance would answer my purpose equally well. In fact, throughout inorganic nature we have this formative power, as Fichte would call it — this structural... | |
 | 1868 - 358 lehte
...the result of this play of attraction and repulsion. While, then, the blocks of Egypt were laid down by a power external to themselves, these molecular...any other substance would answer my purpose equally we'l. In fact, throughout inorganic nature, we have this formative power, as Fichte would call it —this... | |
 | 1868 - 676 lehte
...the result of this play of attraction and repulsion. While, then, the blocks of Egypt were laid down by a power external to themselves, these molecular...by the forces with which they act upon each other. Throughout inorganic nature, we have this formative power, — this structural energy ready to come... | |
 | 1868 - 596 lehte
...the blocks of Egypt were laid down by a power external to themselves, these molecular blocke of eilt are self-posited, being fixed in their places by the forces with which they act upon each other. But passing from what we are accustomed to regañí as a dead mineral to a living grain of corn. When... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1868 - 664 lehte
...the result of this play of attraction and repulsion. While, then, the blocks of Egypt were laid down by a power external to themselves, these molecular blocks of salt are self- posited, being fixed in their places by the forces with which they act upon each other. Throughout... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1869 - 862 lehte
...the result of this play of attraction and repulsion. While, then, the blocks of Egypt were laid down by a power external to themselves, these molecular...the forces with which they act upon each other. I tnke common salt as an illustration because it is so familiar to us all ; but almost any other substiinre... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1869 - 414 lehte
...is the result of the play of attraction and repulsion. While then the blocks of Egypt were laid down by a power external to themselves, these molecular...by the forces with which they act upon each other. "The forms of minerals resulting from this play of forces are various, and exhibit different degrees... | |
 | 1869 - 844 lehte
...form is the result of this attraction and repulsion. " While, then, the blocks of Egypt were laid down by a power external to themselves, these molecular...by the forces with which they act upon each other. Throughout inorganic Nature, we have this formative power — this structural energy ready to come... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1869 - 414 lehte
...is the result of the play of attraction and repulsion. While then the blocks of Egypt were laid down by a power external to themselves, these molecular...by the forces with which they act upon each other. "The forms of minerals resulting from this play of forces are various, and exhibit different degrees... | |
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