 | Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace - 1809 - 406 Seiten
...animals and plants which cover the surface of the Earth, and analogy induces us to believe, that it produces similar effects on the planets ; for, it...suppose that matter, of which we see the fecundity, develope itself in such various ways, should be sterile upon a planet so large as Jupiter, which, like... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 592 Seiten
...animals and plants which cover the surface of the earth, and analogy induces us to believe, that it produces similar effects on the planets ; for, it...which, like the earth, has its days, its nights, and his years, and 0tt which observation discovers changes that indicate very active forces. Alan, formed... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - 1924 - 312 Seiten
...animals and plants which cover the surface of the Earth, and analogy induces us to believe, that he produces similar effects on the planets; for, it is...suppose that matter, of which we see the fecundity develope itself in such various ways, should be sterile upon such a planet as Jupiter, which, like... | |
 | Harold Jeffreys - 1924 - 300 Seiten
...action produces the growth of animals and plants on the earth, and analogy leads us to think that it produces similar effects on the planets; for it is not natural to think that the matter whose fertility we see developed in so many ways is sterile on so great a planet... | |
 | Pierre-Simon Laplace - 1998 - 292 Seiten
...matter from which we see activity developing in so many ways should be barren on so large a planet as Jupiter which, like the Earth, has its days, its nights, and its years, and on which observations indicate changes that imply very active forces. * However* it would be stretching analogy... | |
 | Carl Sagan - 2000 - 342 Seiten
...animals and plants which cover the surface of the Earth, and analogy induces us to believe that it produces similar effects on the planets; for it is not natural to pose that matter, of which we see the fecundity develop itself in such various ways, should be sterile... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier - 2003 - 312 Seiten
...animals and plants which cover the surface of the Earth, and analogy induces us to believe, that he produces similar effects on the planets; for, it is...suppose that matter, of which we see the fecundity develope itself in such various ways, should be sterile upon such a planet as Jupiter, which, like... | |
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This luminary not only acts by its attraction upon all these globes, and compels them to move around him, but imparts to them both light and heat ; his benign influence gives birth to the animals and plants which cover the surface of the earth, and analogy... 