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... simple principle of the general attraction of matter: to which should perhaps be
added the general repulsion of matter; which seems to have caused the
projection of the planets from the sun, and to prevent their relapse into one
chaotic mass.
... simple principle of the general attraction of matter: to which should perhaps be
added the general repulsion of matter; which seems to have caused the
projection of the planets from the sun, and to prevent their relapse into one
chaotic mass.
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and lastly that it needs no perceptible tubes to convey it, this opinion seems not
without probability; and the fingular figure of the brain and nervous system seems
well adapted to distribute it over every part of the body. For the medullary ...
and lastly that it needs no perceptible tubes to convey it, this opinion seems not
without probability; and the fingular figure of the brain and nervous system seems
well adapted to distribute it over every part of the body. For the medullary ...
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Mr. Locke seems to have fallen into a further error, by conceiving, that the mind
could form a general or abstraćt idea by its own operation, which was the copy of
no particular perception; as of a triangle in general, that was neither acute,
obtuse ...
Mr. Locke seems to have fallen into a further error, by conceiving, that the mind
could form a general or abstraćt idea by its own operation, which was the copy of
no particular perception; as of a triangle in general, that was neither acute,
obtuse ...
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When any one turns round rapidly, till he becomes dizzy, and falls upon the
ground, the spectra of the ambient objećts continue to present themselves in
rotation, and he seems to behold the objects still in motion. Now if these spectra
were ...
When any one turns round rapidly, till he becomes dizzy, and falls upon the
ground, the spectra of the ambient objećts continue to present themselves in
rotation, and he seems to behold the objects still in motion. Now if these spectra
were ...
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... or when I see another person bite a cup or glass, excites an actual pain in the
nerves of my teeth. So that this idea and pain seem to be nothing more than the
reiterated reiterated motions of those nerves, that were formerly so disagreeably.
... or when I see another person bite a cup or glass, excites an actual pain in the
nerves of my teeth. So that this idea and pain seem to be nothing more than the
reiterated reiterated motions of those nerves, that were formerly so disagreeably.
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| Title | Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life ... Volume 1 of Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life, Erasmus Darwin |
| Author | Erasmus Darwin |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1801 |
| Length | 516 pages |
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