Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed TruthsR.W., 1658 - 326 pàgines |
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... Weft , and properties respectively ascribed unto Countries . chap.7 . Of the feven beads of Nile . chap 8 . Of the greatness of Nile . Of its inundation , and certain time thereof . That That it never raineth in Egypt , & c . A Table of ...
... Weft , and properties respectively ascribed unto Countries . chap.7 . Of the feven beads of Nile . chap 8 . Of the greatness of Nile . Of its inundation , and certain time thereof . That That it never raineth in Egypt , & c . A Table of ...
Pàgina 7
... Janus jurat O- refles The Authors cenfure upon judgements by Urine , Places in BOOK I. 7 and Common ERRORS . backs c chap Unto Authority chap Of the Bafilisk chap Of Eaft and Weft, and properties respectively ascribed unto Countries chap.
... Janus jurat O- refles The Authors cenfure upon judgements by Urine , Places in BOOK I. 7 and Common ERRORS . backs c chap Unto Authority chap Of the Bafilisk chap Of Eaft and Weft, and properties respectively ascribed unto Countries chap.
Pàgina 18
... Weft to East , and fo conceived the longitude of the stars invariable . They con- among the ceived the torrid Zone unhabitable , and fo made fruftrate the goodliett part of the Ancients . Earth . But we now know ' tis very well ...
... Weft to East , and fo conceived the longitude of the stars invariable . They con- among the ceived the torrid Zone unhabitable , and fo made fruftrate the goodliett part of the Ancients . Earth . But we now know ' tis very well ...
Pàgina 43
... Weft , but return unto its polary pofition again . For though by compactness or gravity it may acquire the loweft place , and become the center of the univerfe , yet that it makes good that point , not varying at all by the acceffion of ...
... Weft , but return unto its polary pofition again . For though by compactness or gravity it may acquire the loweft place , and become the center of the univerfe , yet that it makes good that point , not varying at all by the acceffion of ...
Pàgina 48
... Weft from the true Meridian . The true Meridian is a major Circle paffing through the Poles of the world , and the Zenith or Vertex of any place , exactly dividing the East from the Weft . Now on this line the Needle exactly lyeth not ...
... Weft from the true Meridian . The true Meridian is a major Circle paffing through the Poles of the world , and the Zenith or Vertex of any place , exactly dividing the East from the Weft . Now on this line the Needle exactly lyeth not ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 178 - As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side: they four also had the face of an eagle.
Pàgina 109 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Pàgina 129 - Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
Pàgina 167 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise : the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer ; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
Pàgina 81 - Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons...
Pàgina 268 - Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee ? Follow thou me. Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die...
Pàgina 86 - THAT the young vipers force their way through the bowels of their dam, or that the female viper, in the act of generation, bites off the head of the male, in revenge whereof the young ones eat through the womb and belly of the female, is a very ancient tradition...
Pàgina 116 - That Storks are to be found, and will only live in Republikes or free States, is a petty conceit to advance the opinion of popular policies, and from Antipathies in nature, to disparage Monarchical government. But how far agreeable unto truth, let them consider who read in Pliny, that among the Thessalians who were governed by Kings, and much abounded with Serpents, it was no less...