The Mathematical and Philosophical Works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins ...: To which is Prefixed the Author's Life and an Account of His Works, Volumen1C. Whittingham, 1802 |
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... Copernicus ascribes unto it 208 ....... IX . That it is more probable the earth does move than the heavens 231 X. That this hypothesis is exactly agreeable to common ap- pearances 243 TO THE READER . IF amongst thy leisure hours , Page.
... Copernicus ascribes unto it 208 ....... IX . That it is more probable the earth does move than the heavens 231 X. That this hypothesis is exactly agreeable to common ap- pearances 243 TO THE READER . IF amongst thy leisure hours , Page.
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... moved from its own place ; and this would be impossible ( saith Ruvio † ) because against nature , and there- fore no more to be feared than the falling of the heavens . If you reply , that then according to this , there must be more ...
... moved from its own place ; and this would be impossible ( saith Ruvio † ) because against nature , and there- fore no more to be feared than the falling of the heavens . If you reply , that then according to this , there must be more ...
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... moved to this opinion , that he might thereby take from Alexander the occasion of this fear and discontent ; or else , perhaps , Aristotle himself was as loth to hold the possibility of a world which he could not discover , as Alexander ...
... moved to this opinion , that he might thereby take from Alexander the occasion of this fear and discontent ; or else , perhaps , Aristotle himself was as loth to hold the possibility of a world which he could not discover , as Alexander ...
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... moved round about the sun , ( as Aristotle relates it of him * ; ) and the Pythagoreans in general did affirm that the moon also was terrestrial , and that she was inhabited as this lower world : that those liv- ing creatures and plants ...
... moved round about the sun , ( as Aristotle relates it of him * ; ) and the Pythagoreans in general did affirm that the moon also was terrestrial , and that she was inhabited as this lower world : that those liv- ing creatures and plants ...
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... move . And how horrid soever this may seem at the first , yet it is likely enough to be true , nor is there any maxim or observation in optics ( saith Pena ) that can dis- prove it . Now if our earth were one of the planets ( as it is ...
... move . And how horrid soever this may seem at the first , yet it is likely enough to be true , nor is there any maxim or observation in optics ( saith Pena ) that can dis- prove it . Now if our earth were one of the planets ( as it is ...
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Página 167 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Página 154 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Página 177 - They go up by the mountains; They go down by the valleys Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
Página 172 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Página 141 - I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear : But now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Página 121 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shall thou eat all the days of thy life...
Página 177 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb...
Página 127 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, And hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; And the cloud is not rent under them.
Página 168 - If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be.
Página 109 - That it is possible for some of our posterity to find out a conveyance to this other world, and if there be inhabitants there, to have commerce with them.