Note 139 — PART V. GENERAL VIEWS RESPECTING THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
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“This system,” says Playfair, speaking of Buffon, “need not be considered in detail; the foundation of it is laid in such defiance of the principles of geometry and mechanics, that the architect, notwithstanding all the fertility of his invention, and all the resources of his genius, was never able to give any solidity to the structure.”—Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory, p. 434.