 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 sidor
...reigned a succession of changes reducible to no apparent rule ; variety without progressive improvement ; years of unequal length and seasons of capricious...aspect, glaring and disappearing at uncertain intervals, and every part of the system wearing the appearance of anarchy, though, in fact, obeying, to the letter,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 sidor
...reigned a succession of changes reducible to no apparent rule; variety without progressive improvement; years of unequal length and seasons of capricious...aspect, glaring and disappearing at uncertain intervals, and every part of the system wearing the appearance of anarchy, though, in fact, obeying, to the letter,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 sidor
...reigned a succession of changes reducible to no apparent rule ; variety without progressive improvement ; years of unequal length and seasons of capricious...portentous size and aspect, glaring and disappearing at nucertain intervals, and every part of the system wearing the appearance of anarchy, though, in fact,... | |
 | William Whewell - 1833 - 416 sidor
...were to change much, the planets might sometimes come very near us, and thus exaggerate the effects of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under...the planets, and the consequent destruction of all organization on both of them. Nor is it, on a common examination of the history of the solar system,... | |
 | William Whewell - 1833 - 298 sidor
...were to change much, the planets might sometimes come very near us, and thus exaggerate the effects of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under...the planets, and the consequent destruction of all organization on both of them. Nor is it, on a common examination of the history of the solar system,... | |
 | 1836 - 566 sidor
...were to change much, the planets might sometimes come very near us, and thus exaggerate the effects of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under...the planets, and the consequent destruction of all organization on both of them. Nor is it, on a common examination of the history of the solar system,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1839 - 304 sidor
...of the remoter planets greatly disturb each other's movements. STABILITY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. 383. The derangement which the planets produce in the motion...the planets, and the consequent destruction of all organization on both of them. The fact really is, that changes are taking place in the motions of the... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1839 - 300 sidor
...respect to that of the earth ? What changes are actually going on in the motions of the heavenly bodies? limit, and end in the complete subversion and ruin...the planets, and the consequent destruction of all organization on both of them. The fact really is, that changes are taking place in the motions of the... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1839 - 504 sidor
...the earth, occasioning a dreadful catastrophe. If the positions of the planetary orbits with respeot to that of the earth, were to change much, the planets...the planets, and the consequent destruction of all organization on both of them. The fact really is, that changes are taking place in the motions of the... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1841 - 486 sidor
...of universal gravitation. Venus and Mercury, approaching, as they do at times, comparatively near to the earth, sensibly disturb its motions ; and the...the planets, and the consequent destruction of all organization on both of them.' The fact really is, that changes are taking place in the motions of... | |
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... it is easy to see that, in the one case, our year would change its character, producing a far greater irregularity in the distribution of the solar heat ; in the other, our satellite must fall to the earth, occasioning a dreadful catastrophe. If the... 
