Astro-theology, Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God: From a Survey of the HeavensW. Innys, 1715 - 228 pàgines |
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Pàgina xviii
... Semidiameters of the Earth What a Velocity muft that of the Fixt Stars , especially that of the Pri mum Mobile be , at far greater diftan- ces than the Sun is ? Lat For 4. It is an incontestable argument of the Sun being the Center of ...
... Semidiameters of the Earth What a Velocity muft that of the Fixt Stars , especially that of the Pri mum Mobile be , at far greater diftan- ces than the Sun is ? Lat For 4. It is an incontestable argument of the Sun being the Center of ...
Pàgina lviii
... Semidiameters of the Earth or other Planets . AND now for a Conclufion , I fhall only intreat all my Readers to joyn with me in their earneft Prayers , that as this Work is defigned for the good of Mankind , particularly for the ...
... Semidiameters of the Earth or other Planets . AND now for a Conclufion , I fhall only intreat all my Readers to joyn with me in their earneft Prayers , that as this Work is defigned for the good of Mankind , particularly for the ...
Pàgina 18
... Semidiameters of the Earth , ac- cording to which , the Diameter of the Moon's Orbit is 479905 English Miles . ( 2 ) Concerning the Distance between the Sun and the Earth , there is a great Disagree- ment between the former and latter ...
... Semidiameters of the Earth , ac- cording to which , the Diameter of the Moon's Orbit is 479905 English Miles . ( 2 ) Concerning the Distance between the Sun and the Earth , there is a great Disagree- ment between the former and latter ...
Pàgina 19
... Semi- diameters of the Earth . But although his Ob- fervations were made fince , yet I fhall make ufe of Monf ... Semidiameters of the Earth which are equal to 86051398 English Miles . And imagi- ning the Magnus Orbis to be a Circle ...
... Semi- diameters of the Earth . But although his Ob- fervations were made fince , yet I fhall make ufe of Monf ... Semidiameters of the Earth which are equal to 86051398 English Miles . And imagi- ning the Magnus Orbis to be a Circle ...
Pàgina 77
... Semidiameter of the Disk . AND farther yet , thefe Solar Spots , as they manifeftly demonftrate the Sun to be a moving Globe , turn- ing round once in fomewhat above 25 days , so they manifest themselves to be fomething adhering unto ...
... Semidiameter of the Disk . AND farther yet , thefe Solar Spots , as they manifeftly demonftrate the Sun to be a moving Globe , turn- ing round once in fomewhat above 25 days , so they manifest themselves to be fomething adhering unto ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina lxiv - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Pàgina 173 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Pàgina 24 - ... and distance of the fixed stars. We admire, indeed with propriety, the vast bulk of our own globe ; but, when we consider how much it is surpassed by most of the heavenly bodies, what a point it degenerates into, and how little more even the vast orbit in which it revolves would appear, when seen from some of the fixed stars, we begin to conceive more just ideas of the extent of the universe, and of the boundaries of creation.
Pàgina xliii - Glafles, fo confequently above our ability to fathotrij although not at all improbable. But be the various Syftemes of the Univerfe as they will as to their Dignity, it is fufficient that in all probability there -are many of them, even as many as there are Fixt Stars, which are without number.
Pàgina 57 - ... and land to be thy houfe, thy workmanfhip, and not that of the immortal gods !" And fo when we fee fuch good order, fuch due proportions in this region of the...
Pàgina vii - The chief inconvenience is the want of a long pole of 100 or more feet, to raise my long glass to such a height as to see the heavenly bodies above the thick vapors.
Pàgina xli - But then whereas the Copernican hypothesis supposeth the Firmament of the Fixt stars to be the bounds of the Universe, and to be placed at an equal...
Pàgina xxxviii - ... that whilft you were up in the air, the floor under your feet had run the contrary way to your leap. And if you caft any thing to your companion, you need ufe no more...
Pàgina 99 - ... sun (P. Africanus) was extinguished. These things terrified mankind, and raised in them a firm belief of the existence of some celestial and divine power. His fourth cause, and that the strongest, is drawn from the regularity of the motion and revolution of the heavens, the distinctness, variety, beauty, and order of the sun, moon, and all the stars, the appearance only of which is sufficient to convince us they are not the effects of chance ; as when we enter into a house, or school, or court,...
Pàgina 36 - Univerfe be ft. 39 becoming the infinite CREATOR, than any other of the narrower Schemes. For here we have the Works of the Creation, not confined to the more fcanty limits of the Orb> or Arch of the Fixt Stars, or even the larger Space of the Primum Mobile, which the ancients...