 | 1870 - 846 pages
...and minutest forms, and everywhere revealed such a prodigality of provision for their multip ication by germs of one sort or another, that the hypothesis...the question, it was almost universally discredited. (" Nouvelles Observations," p. 169 and 176.) But the skill of the microscope-makers of the eighteenth... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1870 - 400 pages
...other illustrious investigators of nature of that day, displayed such a complexity of organisation in the lowest and minutest forms, and everywhere revealed...Buffon took up the question, it was almost universally discredited.1 1 Noedham, writing in 1750, says : — " Les naturalistes modernes s'accordent unanimeiuent... | |
 | American periodicals - 1870 - 870 pages
...and minutest forms, and evervwhere revealed such a prodigality of provision for their multip ication by germs' of one sort or another, that the hypothesis...and, in the middle of the eighteenth century, when Needbam and Buffon took up the question, it was almost universally discredited. ("Nouvelles Observations,"... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1871 - 720 pages
...Lyonct, Yallisnieri, Keaumur, and other illustrious investigators of nature of that day, displayed biH-h a complexity of organization in the lowest and minutest...and in the middle of the eighteenth century, when Xeedham and Buffon took up the question, it was almost universally discredited*. f.iretc riflessione... | |
 | Science - 1871 - 330 pages
...organisation in the lowest forms of life, and such a prodigality of provision for their multiplication, that the hypothesis of abiogenesis began to appear...and in the middle of the eighteenth century, when Buffon and Needham took up the question, it was almost universally discredited. But the skill of the... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1871 - 714 pages
...provision for their multiplication by germs of one sort or another, that the hypothesis of Abiogcnesis began to appear not only untrue, but absurd ; and in the middle of the eighteenth century, when Xeedham and Buffon took up the question, it was almost universally discredited*. fnreto rifirssionc... | |
 | Science - 1871 - 316 pages
...life, and such a, prodigality of provision for their multiplication, that the hypothesis of abiogcnesis began to appear not only untrue but absurd ; and in the middle of the eighteenth century, when Buffon and Needham took up the question, it was almost universally discredited. But the skill of the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Literary Criticism - 1873 - 428 pages
...microscope to anatomy in the hands of Grew, Leeuwenhoek, Swammerdam, Lyonnet, Vallisuieri, Rdaumur, and other illustrious investigators of nature of that...the question, it was almost universally discredited. 1 But the skill of the microscope-makers of the eighteenth century soon reached its limit. A microscope... | |
 | Geology - 1870 - 488 pages
...nearly a century. The application of the microscope to anatomy, in the hands of Crew, Leeuwenhoefc, Swammerdam, Lyonet, Vallisnieri, Reaumur, and other...middle of the eighteenth century, when Needham and Buffbn took up the question, it was almost universally discredited. (' Nouvellcs Observations,' p.... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Biology - 1894 - 428 pages
...other illustrious investigators of nature of that day, displayed such a complexity of organisation in the lowest and minutest forms, and everywhere revealed...Buffon took up the question, it was almost universally discredited.1 But the skill of the microscope makers of the eighteenth century soon reached its limit.... | |
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... of one sort or another, that the hypothesis of Abiogenesis began to appear not only untrue, but absurd ; and, in the middle of the eighteenth century, when Needham and Buffon took up the question, it was almost universally discredited. 
