 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...cod-fish to produce considerably more than three millions and a half of young. Nay, LEEWENHOEK tells us, that there are more animals in the milt of a single cod-fish, than there are men upon the whole earth. Over all these creatures preside upwards of 730 millions * See the DissertatioTis... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...visible to the naked eye. The natural divisions of matter are, however, far more surprisingly minute; there are more animals in the milt of a single codfish than men on tlir whole earth. It is said that a single grain of sand is larger than four millions of these... | |
 | James Ferguson - Eclipses - 1823 - 406 pages
...Tram. 1813, and the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Art. Micrometer, vol. JUT, pp. 201 and 214.— iW. us, that there are more animals in the milt of a single cod-fish, than there are men upon the whole earth ; and that, by comparing these animals in a microscope with grains of common sand,... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1825 - 310 pages
...wonderful subtilty of parts is perceived, for though they are perpetually filling a considerable space with odoriferous particles, yet these bodies lose...animals in the milt of a single cod.fish, than there are mpn on the whole earth, and that a single grain of sand is larger than four millions of these animals.... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 554 pages
...comparison of the lengths that nature goes in the division of matter. For Mr. Leeweiihoek tells, us that there are more animals in the milt of a single cod-fish, than there are men upon the whole earth : and that, by comparing these animals in a microscope with grains of common sand,... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1852 - 400 pages
...wonderful subtil ty of parts is perceived; for, though they are perpetually filling a considerable space with odoriferous particles, yet these bodies lose...that there are more animals in the milt of a single cod-6sh, than there are men on the whole earth, and that a single grain of sand is larger than four... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...wonderful subtilty of parts is perceived : for though they are perpetually filling a considerable space with odoriferous particles, yet these bodies lose but a very small part of their weight or quantity in a great length of time. One grain of musk has been known to perfume a room for the space... | |
 | 1883 - 692 pages
...wonderful subtility of parts is perceived ; for, though they are perpetually filling a considerable space with odoriferous particles, yet these bodies lose...accuracy may be relied on, that there are more animals (animalculac) in the milt of a single cod-fish, than there are men on the whole earth, and that a single... | |
 | Gaston Tissandier - 1882 - 830 pages
...grasp, Matter can be divided. But there is something even more astonishing than this. It is stated that there are more animals in the milt of a single codfish than there are men in the world ; and that one grain of sand is larger than four millions of these animals ! each of which... | |
 | Richard S. Peale - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 548 pages
...three millions of red globules. But there is something even more astonishing than this. It is stated that there are more animals in the milt of a single codfish than there are men in the world ; and that one grain of sand is larger than four millions of these animals, each of which... | |
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In odoriferous bodies, such as camphor, musk, and asatoetida, a wonderful subtilty of parts is perceived, for though they are perpetually filling a considerable space with odoriferous particles, yet these bodies lose but a very small part of their weight... 