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...combination, and thus the chemical action and its heat continued in an endless cycle, violates the first principles of natural philosophy in exactly the same manner and to the same degree, as to beliere that a clock constructed with a self-winding movement may fulfil the expectations of its ingenious...

...combination, and thus the chemical action and its heat continued in an endless cycle, violates tho first principles of natural philosophy, in exactly the same...expectations of its ingenious inventor by going for ever. Adopting as the more probable, the simpler hypothesis that the earth is merely a heated body cooling,...

...combination, and thus the chemical action and its heat continued in an endless cycle, violates the first principles of natural philosophy, in exactly the same...the expectations of its ingenious inventor by going forever. Fourier's theory of the conduction of heat to trace the earth's thermal history backwards....

...combination, and thus the chemical action and its heat continued in an endless cycle, violates the first principles of natural philosophy, in exactly the same...the expectations of its ingenious inventor by going forever. "Adopting as the more probable, the simpler hypothesis that the earth is merely a heated body...

...combination, and thus the chemical action and its heat continued in an endless cycle, violates the first principles of natural philosophy, in exactly the same...self-winding movement may fulfil the expectations oi' its ingenious inventor by going forever. "Adopting as the more probable, the simpler hypothesis...

...combination, and thus the chemical action and its heat continued in an endless cycle, violates the first principles of natural philosophy, in exactly the same...self-winding movement may fulfil the expectations of its iugenious inventor by going forever. "Adopting as the more probable, the simpler hypothesis that the...

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...products formed, thus giving a perpetual cycle. As Sir W. Thomson remarks, this extraordinary notion " violates the principles of natural philosophy in exactly...expectations of its ingenious inventor by going for ever." If we take the far more- probable hypothesis that the internal heat of the earth, like that of the...

...its heat electric perpetual continued in an endless cycle, violates the principles of natural motion. philosophy in exactly the same manner, and to the...expectations of its ingenious inventor by going for ever. * Another kind of dynamical action, capable of generating heat in the interior of the earth, is the...