 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pages
...Newton expressed the Litter opinion in these words : ' All things considered, it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particle*, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space,... | |
 | 1905 - 1004 pages
...ranged themselves on the side of the atoms; the latter declaring that to him it seemed probable "that God In the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, . . . and that these primitive particles, being solids, are Incomparably harder than any porous bodies... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1904 - 724 pages
...feature of the original order of nature. ' It seems probable to me,' says Sir Isaac Newton, ' that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy,...movable 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 Ho... | |
 | 1845 - 636 pages
...the ablest of Daiton's predecessors. "All things considered," says Newton, "it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy,...hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end... | |
 | 1877 - 564 pages
...gives the following extract from Sir Isaac Newton : — "All things considered.!! seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy,...movable 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... | |
 | Robert Hare - 1855 - 484 pages
...1. Newton's definition of material particles was as follows : 1772. " It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy,...movable 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... | |
 | EDWARD HITCHCOCK - 1857 - 436 pages
...philosophers as in reality untrue. With Sir Isaac Newton, they now mostly consider it " probable that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy,...movable 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... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1857 - 446 pages
...philosophers as in reality untrue. With Sir Isaac Newton, they now mostly consider it " probable that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy,...movable 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... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1860 - 972 pages
...formed. Sir Isaac Newton thus expresses himself: — " All things considered, it stems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy,...hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the... | |
 | George Wilson - 1862 - 410 pages
...ablest of Dalton's predecessors : — ' All things considered,' says Newton, ' it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy,...hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end... | |
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All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most... 
