Geometry of vital forces / by F. Vanderburg [sic].

  • Vanderburgh, Federal, 1788-1868.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Geometry of vital forces / by F. Vanderburg [sic]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to guide it ; there is no such form within him, and he cannot give what he does not possess, without the aid of art. When he loses his points of compass his sphe- roidal form defines his own orbit by his own magni- tude, like that of a planet, and he traverses his spheroid until some fixed point changes his centre and guides him into a straight line. The same dynamic force which made him a spheroid, made the globe spheroidal before him, and the matter in both is geometrically arranged in similar spheroidal forms. Water was the first binary compound which announced the beginning of the world, when dark- ness was on the face of the deep, and all the waters of the globe are found, by analysis, to hold in solution some or all of the mineral bodies which constitute the structure of the globe. Dalton found one part of common salt in rain-water, at Manches- ter, in England, and Brand found in rain-water, in the interior of Germany, common salt, salt of am- monia, chlorate of potash, sulphate of magnesia, carbonate of magnesia, sulphate of lime, oxide of iron ; the chief of these being the constituent ele- ments of sea-water, brings incredulity to a stand on the subject of the formation of the globe. The sea is a laboratory, with its electro-magnetic engine disaggregating the molecules of sea-water and ren-