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" This twisting displacement, at first appears to indicate a vorticose movement beneath each point thus affected; but this is highly improbable. May it not be caused by a tendency in each stone to arrange itself in some particular position, with respect... "
The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science - Page 525
1846
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Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of ..., Volumes 1-2

Charles Darwin - 1846 - 716 pages
...indicate a vorticose movement beneath each point thus affected; but this is highly improbable. May it not be caused by a tendency in each stone to arrange itself...somewhat similar to pins on a sheet of paper when shaken ? Generally speaking, arched doorways or windows stood much better than any other part of the buildings....
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New York Municipal Gazette (New York, N.Y.), Volume 1, Issues 41-48

Ebenezer Meriam - 1847 - 224 pages
...indicate a varticose movement beneath each point thus affected ; but this highly improbable. May it not be caused by a. tendency in each stone to arrange...somewhat similar to pins on a sheet of paper when shaken. Generally speaking, arched doorways or windows stood much better than any other part of the building....
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Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland, Volume 3

Royal Geological Society of Ireland - 1849 - 348 pages
...proceeds, " at first appears to indicate a vorticose movement beneath each point, thus effected ; but 140 this is highly improbable. May it not," he adds, "...being able at all to account for the phenomenon, a separate vortex must be admitted for every separate stone found twisted, the axis of relations of the...
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Monthly Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy ..., Volume 1

James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1864 - 876 pages
...better account of the then accepted Vorticose displacement of objects, than by asking, " Might it not be caused by a tendency in each stone to arrange itself...somewhat similar to pins on a sheet of paper when shaken ? " He, too, like Parish, had recorded the circumstances of the great sea- waves that roll in, after...
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Quarterly Journal of Science: 1864, Volume 1

1864 - 848 pages
...better account of the then accepted Vorticose displacement of objects, than by asking, " Might it not be caused by a tendency in each stone to arrange itself...somewhat similar to pins on a sheet of paper when shaken ? " He, too, like Parish, had recorded the circumstances of the great sea-waves that roll in, after...
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A Naturalist's Voyage: Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and ...

Charles Darwin - 1889 - 628 pages
...indicate a vorticose movement beneath each point thus affected ; but this is highly improbable. May it not be caused by a tendency in each stone to arrange itself...somewhat similar to pins on a sheet of paper when shaken ? Generally speaking, arched doorways or windows stood much better - M. Arasto in " LTnstitut," 1839,...
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Charles Darwin's Works: Journal of researches into the natural history and ...

Charles Darwin - 1896 - 542 pages
...indicate a vorticose movement beneath each point thus affected ; but this is highly improbable. May it not be caused by a tendency in each stone to arrange itself...somewhat similar to pins on a sheet of paper when shaken? Generally speaking, arched doorways or windows stw>d much belter than any other part of the buildings....
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Report of the Great Earthquake of 12th June, 1897

Richard Dixon Oldham - 1899 - 528 pages
...each point thus affected ; but this is highly improbable. " He suggests as an explanation that it was caused by a tendency in each stone to arrange itself...somewhat similar to pins on a sheet of paper when shaken. stone itself wiH be solicited to move in the same direction. The measure of force with which the movement...
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Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Various ...

Charles Darwin - 1908 - 542 pages
...indicate a vorticose movement beneath each point thus affected; but this is highly improbable. May it not be caused by a tendency in each stone to arrange itself...particular position, with respect to the lines of vibration,—in a manner somewhat similar to pins on a sheet of paper when shaken? Generally speaking,...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 29

1909 - 576 pages
...xv., book ii. movement beneath each point thus affected ; but this is highly improbable. May it not be caused by a tendency in each stone to arrange itself...somewhat similar to pins on a sheet of paper when shaken ? Generally speaking, arched doorways or windows stood much better than any other part of the buildings....
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