Some unrecognized laws of nature : an inquiry into the causes of physical phenomena, with special reference to gravitation / by Ignatius Singer and Lewis H. Berens.

  • Singer, Ignatius.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Some unrecognized laws of nature : an inquiry into the causes of physical phenomena, with special reference to gravitation / by Ignatius Singer and Lewis H. Berens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If the different places where remains have been discovered, indicating the presence of a tropical climate, were ascertained, it is possible that a clue might be found as to the direction in which the earth's axis is shifting. That it does not remain constant seems to our own minds pretty conclusive from the opposite consideration, even if for no other reasons—viz., that it would be the only thing constant we should know of in the universe. It is the slow changes which escape detection ; and yet it is these slowly acting forces which produce the greatest changes.