Vestiges Of The Natural History Of Creation Its Argument Examined And Exposed Second Edition A Criticism Of The Work By Robert Chambers PDF Download

Excerpt from Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation: With a Sequel It is, in t e first place, remarkable, that the planets all move nearly in one plane, corresponding with the centre of the sun's bod N ext, it is not less remarkable, that the motion of t e sun on its axis, those of the planets around the sun, and the satellites around their primaries, ' and the motions of all on their axis, are in one direction - namely, from west to east. Had all these matters been left to accident, the chances against the uniformity which we find would have been, though calculable, inconceiva bly greet Laplace states them at four millions of millions to one It is thus powerfully impressed on na, that the uniformity of the motions, as well as their general adjust ment to one plane, must have been a consequence of some cause acting throughout the whole system. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.