 An earth greater or smaller, denser or rarer than the one on which we live, would require a change in the structure and strength of the footstalks of all the little flowers that hang their heads under our hedges. There is something curious in thus considering...  A Flora of Leicestershire - Página 62por Mary Kirby - 1850 - 183 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1836 - 498 páginas
...many of the laws that regulate the universe. " There is something curious" says a recent writer, " in considering the whole mass of the earth from pole...circumference to centre, as employed in keeping a snow drop in the position most suited to its vegetable health." There is something more than curious... | |
 | William Whewell - 1833 - 298 páginas
...flowers that hang their heads under our hedges. There is something curious in thus considering the whol& mass of the earth from pole to pole, and from circumference...most suited to the promotion of its vegetable health. It would be easy to mention many other parts of the economy of vegetable life, which depend for their... | |
 | 1833 - 736 páginas
...in tbe structure and length of the footstalks of all the little flowers that hang their heads under our hedges. There is something curious in thus considering...circumference to centre, as employed in keeping a snowdrop in tbe position most suited to the promotion of its vegetable health," GENT. MAS. May, 1833, We perceive... | |
 | 1833 - 720 páginas
...in the structure and length of the footstalks of all the little flowers that hang their heads under our hedges. There is something curious in thus considering...circumference to centre, as employed in keeping a mowdrop in the position most suited to the promotion of its vegetable health." GENT. MAO. May, 1833.... | |
 | 1833 - 792 páginas
...the structure and strength of the footstalks of all the little flowers that hang their heads under our hedges. There is something curious in thus considering...circumference to centre, as employed in keeping a snow drop in the position most suited to the promotion of its vegetable health." The second book, devoted... | |
 | 1833 - 806 páginas
...the structure and strength of the footstalks of all the little flowers that hang their heads under our hedges. There is something curious in thus considering...circumference to centre, as employed in keeping a snow drop in the position most suited to the promotion of its vegetable health." The second book, devoted... | |
 | 1834 - 596 páginas
...the structure nnd strength of the footstalks of all the little flowers that hang their heads under our hedges. There is something curious in thus considering...suited to the promotion of its vegetable health.' — Pp. 47, 48. Another example of the adjustment of organic structure to the force of gravity, Mr... | |
 | 1835 - 284 páginas
...the structure and strength of the footstalks of all the little flowers that hang their heads under our hedges. There is something curious in thus considering...most suited to the promotion of its vegetable health. [Win.n-Ei.L's Bridgfwater ANECDOTE OF SIR SAMUEL HOOD. THERE are some men who go about every thing... | |
 | 1836 - 566 páginas
...the structure and strength of the footstalks of all the little flowers that hang their heads under our hedges. There is something curious in thus considering...most suited to the promotion of its vegetable health. It would be easy to mention many other parts of the economy of vegetable life, which depend for their... | |
 | William Whewell - 1836 - 420 páginas
...the structure and strength of the footstalks of all the little flowers that hang their heads under our hedges. There is something curious in thus considering...most suited to the promotion of its vegetable health. It would be easy to mention many other parts of the economy of vegetable life, which depend for their... | |
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