Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
The ocean surrounds the earth on all sides, and penetrates into the interior parts of different countries, often by large openings, and frequently by small straits; it forms mediterranean seas, some of which participate of its motions of flux and reflux, and others seem to hav...
The ocean surrounds the earth on all sides, and penetrates into the interior parts of different countries, often by large openings, and frequently by small straits; it forms med...
2. chapter 89, he speaks of other islands formed in the like manner; butOn the 23d of May 1707, at the sun's rising, there was seen, at some little distance from the island of Therasia, or Santorini, something like a floating rock in the sea; some p...
4. CHAPTER II.[BH] This word is used by the author in an enlarged sense of propagation, for as generation applies to animated beings, so by this he includes the vegetable as well as animal sy...
7. CHAPTER V.Plato[BL] not only explains the generation of man, animals, plants, and elements, but even that of heaven and the gods, by reflected representations and images extracted from th...
6. CHAPTER IV.As human and animal organization is the most perfect and compounded, their propagation is also the most difficult and least abundant; I here except those animals which, like the...
3. CHAPTER I.Amidst the infinite number of objects that offer themselves to our view, and with which the surface of the earth is every where covered, Animals hold the first rank both on acco...
5. CHAPTER III.The body of an animal is a kind of internal mould, in which the nutritive matter assimilates itself with the whole in such a manner that, without changing the order and proporti...