 | Charles Henry Wilkinson - 1799 - 390 pages
...creature, and the Tides caufed J>y its refpiration ; fome imagined they proceeded from a great whirlpool in Norway, which for fix hours abforbs the water, and afterwards difgorges it, &c. Suppofing Suppofing a power of attraction to exift in all the fpace betvve;n our Earth' and the... | |
 | ANZAAS (Association) - 1903 - 1032 pages
...thought the Earth and Sea to be a living Creature, which, by its Respiration, causeth this ebbing and flowing. Others imagined that it proceeds, and is....provoked, from a great Whirlpool near Norway, which for six Hours absorbs the Water, and afterwards disgorges it in the same space of Time. Scaliger, and others,... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - 1922 - 636 pages
...thought the Earth and Sea to be a living Creature, whieh, by its Respiration, causeth this ebbing and flowing. Others imagined that it proceeds, and is provoked, from a great Whirlpool near Norway, whieh, for Six Hours, absorbs the Water, and afterwards, disgorges it in the same space of Time. Scaliger,... | |
 | Harry Aaron Marmer - 1926 - 312 pages
...thought the Earth and Sea to be a living Creature, which by its Respiration, causeth this ebbing and flowing. Others imagined that it proceeds, and is...provoked, from a great Whirlpool near Norway, which, for Six Hours, absorbs the Water, and afterwards, disgorges it in the same space of Time. Scaliger, and... | |
 | Peter H. Spectre - 2005 - 308 pages
...thought the Earth and Sea to be a living Creature, which by its Respiration, causeth this ebbing and flowing. Others imagined that it proceeds, and is...provoked, from a great Whirlpool near Norway, which, for Six Hours, absorbs the Water, and afterwards, disgorges it in the same space of Time. — Bernhardus... | |
 | Joseph Dan - 2005 - 708 pages
...thought the Earth and Sea to be a living Creature, which by its Respiration, causeth this ebbing and flowing. Others imagined that it proceeds, and is...provoked, from a great Whirlpool near Norway, which, for Six Hours. absorbs the Water, and afterwards, disgorges it in the same space of Time. Scaliger, and... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - 1922 - 628 pages
...thought the Earth and Sea to be a living Creature, which, by its Respiration, canseth this ebbing and flowing. Others imagined that it proceeds, and is...provoked, from a great Whirlpool near Norway, which, for Six Hours, absorbs the Water, and afterwards, disgorges it in the same space of Time. Scaliger, and... | |
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Phenomenon in Nature that has so much exercised and puzzled the Wits of Philosophers and learned men as this. Some have thought the Earth and Sea to be a living Creature, which, by its Respiration, causeth this ebbing and flowing. Others imagined that... 