An introductory lecture on human and comparative physiology. Delivered at the new medical school in Aldersgate Street / By Peter M Roget.

  • Peter Mark Roget
Date:
1826
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Credit: An introductory lecture on human and comparative physiology. Delivered at the new medical school in Aldersgate Street / By Peter M Roget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    round the sun, unaffected by the eruptions of volcanoes or the commotions of earth¬ quakes. The seasons return at stated pe¬ riods ; the ocean swells and subsides in strict obedience to the laws of gravita¬ tion. The perturbations of the planets and their satellites are but the necessary con¬ sequences of the same general law, which, notwithstanding all the complex move¬ ments resulting from their mutual actions, imposes a necessary limit to their oscilla¬ tions, and secures the stability of the whole solar system. In the minutest mineral body we trace the same harmony and mathematical pre¬ cision, that are displayed on so magnificent a scale in the construction of the heavens. The atoms of every crystalline body are found to arrange themselves in conformity with certain geometric laws. The figure of every drop of fluid is defined by analy-
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