 | James Campbell - Printers - 1999 - 316 pages
...Rather, he suggested 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." In this view, the surface of the earth would be "a shell, capable of being broken and disordered by... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, University Press of the Pacific - American essays - 2001 - 190 pages
...Earth. I wrote it to set him right in some points wherein he had mistaken my meaning. —Note by BF 106 therefore might swim in or upon that fluid. Thus the...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 as... | |
 | Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, Donald Theodore Sanders - History - 2005 - 310 pages
...imagined that the internal part [of the earth] might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with;...violent movements of the fluid on which it rested. Scientists had to wait more than a century before they could definitely establish a relationship between... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 317 pages
...Center. I therefore imagined that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, & of greater specific gravity than any of the Solids we are acquainted with;...the Globe would be a Shell, capable of being broken & disordered by the violent movements of the fluid on which it rested. And, as Air has been compressed... | |
 | Joyce E. Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 440 pages
...parts" of the resulting earth were, Franklin concluded, 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." The "surface of the globe" was a mere "shell, capable of being broken and disordered" by its fluid... | |
 | Keith Stewart Thomson - Religion - 2007 - 344 pages
...mechanism: 'I imagined . . . that the internal part might be a fluid . .. [and that the solid crust] might swim in or upon that fluid. Thus the surface of the earth would be a shell, capable of being broken and disordered by any evident movements of the fluid... | |
 | 540 pages
...and he therefore "imagined that the internal part might be a fluid more dense and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with,...and disordered by any violent movements of the fluid upon which it rested." He then proceeded to speculate on the possibility that the internal fluid might... | |
 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Electronic journals - 1909 - 636 pages
...therefore imagine that the internal parts of the earth 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." Mr. Hixon's error probably . arose from the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 604 pages
...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. And as air has been compressed by art so as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1904 - 480 pages
...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. And as air has been compressed by art, so as... | |
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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,... 
