1. It has been shewn in the preceding chapters that a great number of quantities and laws appear to have been selected in the construction of the universe; and that by the adjustment to each other of the magnitudes and laws thus selected, the constitution of the world is what we find it, and is fitted for the support of vegetables and animals, in a manner in which it could not have been, if the properties and quantities of the elements had been different from what they are. We shall here recapitulate the principal of the laws and magnitudes to which this conclusion has been shewn to apply.

1. 1. The Length of the Year, which depends on the force of the attraction of the sun, and its distance from the earth.

2. 2. The Length of the Day.

3. 3. The Mass of the Earth, which depends on its magnitude and density.

4. 4. The Magnitude of the Ocean.

5. 5. The Magnitude of the Atmosphere.

6. 6. The Law and Rate of the Conducting Power of the Earth.

7. 7. The Law and Rate of the Radiating Power of the Earth.

8. 8. The Law and Rate of the Expansion of Water by Heat.

9. 9. The Law and Rate of the Expansion of Water by Cold, below 40 degrees.

10. 10. The Law and Quantity of the Expansion of water in Freezing.

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