Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 29Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell Wiley & Putnam, 1967 |
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Page 98
... planets and their satellites , were once a nebula , extending as one body over the whole orbit of Neptune , or six thousand millions of miles in diameter . As it condensed , the outer planets were formed , then the earth , then the ...
... planets and their satellites , were once a nebula , extending as one body over the whole orbit of Neptune , or six thousand millions of miles in diameter . As it condensed , the outer planets were formed , then the earth , then the ...
Page 100
... planets , without any cause , should all move in one direction round the sun . If the several boats should be steered directly towards the shore , or very nearly so , the chances against this being done without a cause cannot be ...
... planets , without any cause , should all move in one direction round the sun . If the several boats should be steered directly towards the shore , or very nearly so , the chances against this being done without a cause cannot be ...
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... planets . Mr. Lubbuck has presented , more recently , an argument on this subject , independent of the powers of the eccentricities and the inclinations . He has shown that all the perturbations of our system can be developed into a ...
... planets . Mr. Lubbuck has presented , more recently , an argument on this subject , independent of the powers of the eccentricities and the inclinations . He has shown that all the perturbations of our system can be developed into a ...
Contents
ARTICLE PAGE I THEORY OF THE BEAUTIFUL | 3 |
THE SIX DAYS OF CREATION | 21 |
IIILA BORDES INTRODUCTION TO PHYSIOLOGY | 51 |
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