 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 pages
...fluid. Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell, capable of being broken and disordered by the violent movements of the fluid on which it rested. And, as air has been compressed by a 1 so as to be twice as dense as water, in whbfc case, if such air and water could be contained in... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 780 pages
...I therefore imagined, that the internal parts might be a fluid more denso, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with,...that fluid. Thus the surface of the globe would be a shcjl, capable of being broken and disordered by the violent movements of the fluid on which it rested.... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1864 - 784 pages
...fluid. Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell, capable of being broken and disordered by the violent movements of the fluid on which it rested. And as air has been compressed by art so aa to be twice as dense as water, and ag we know not yet the degree of density to which air may be... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pages
...centre. I therefore imagined that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with ; which therefore might swun in or upon that fluid. Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell, capable of being broken... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1905 - 496 pages
...centre. I therefore imagined, that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with,...a shell, capable of being broken and disordered by the violent movements of the fluid on which it rested." He theorizes with regard to the changes that... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1906 - 940 pages
...land above the sea level and which he conceived could not take place were the earth solid. He wrote: Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell, capable...violent movements of the fluid on which it rested. And an air has been compressed by art so as to be twice as dense as water, in which case if such air and... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1906 - 944 pages
...conceived could not take place were the earth solid. He wrote: Thus the surface of the globe would l>ea shell, capable of being broken and disordered by any...movements of the fluid on which it rested. And as air has Wn compressed by art во ая to be twice as dense as water, in which case if such air and water could... | |
 | George Perkins Merrill - Geologists - 1906 - 545 pages
...land above the sea level and which he conceived could not take place were the earth solid, lie wrote: Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell, capable of being broken and disordered by any noient movement« of the fluid on which it rested. And as air has been com preened by art so ac to... | |
 | George Perkins Merrill - Geologists - 1906 - 646 pages
...earth solid. He wrote: ! the surface of the globe would be a shell, capable of Ijeing broken and disI by any violent movements of the fluid on which it rested. And as air has impressed by art so as to be twice as dense as water, in which case if such . water could be contained... | |
 | Milton Lomask - Government publications - 1976 - 306 pages
...centre. I therefore imagined that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with,...a shell, capable of being broken and disordered by the violent movements of the fluid on which it rested. ... If [these thoughts] occasion any new inquiries... | |
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I therefore imagined that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with ; which therefore might swim in or upon that fluid. Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell,... 
