The Mathematical and Philosophical Works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins, Late Lord Bishop of Chester: II. That it is probable our earth is one of the planetsVernor and Hood, 1802 |
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... stars , was known only to those who were learned men , and had skill in astronomy . As for that expression in Job * ,, the stars of the morning , it is in the plural number , and therefore cannot properly be applied to Venus . And for ...
... stars , was known only to those who were learned men , and had skill in astronomy . As for that expression in Job * ,, the stars of the morning , it is in the plural number , and therefore cannot properly be applied to Venus . And for ...
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... stars were not very hot , as being against the words of scripture , Psalm xix . 6. where the Psalmist says , that there is nothing that is hid from the heat of the sun . So others there are that would prove the heavens not to be round ...
... stars were not very hot , as being against the words of scripture , Psalm xix . 6. where the Psalmist says , that there is nothing that is hid from the heat of the sun . So others there are that would prove the heavens not to be round ...
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John Wilkins. the elementary and æthercal bodies , the stars and the earth . Secondly , more particularly for an inferior world , consisting of elements . Now the main drift of all these arguments , is to confute a plurality of worlds in ...
John Wilkins. the elementary and æthercal bodies , the stars and the earth . Secondly , more particularly for an inferior world , consisting of elements . Now the main drift of all these arguments , is to confute a plurality of worlds in ...
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... stars ; hence were sustained so many constellations , so laborious , so greedy , * In lib . de Mundi constit . † 2 Pet . iii . 12 . Nat . quest . Plutarch de plac . lib . 2. cap . 5 . By Doctor Hakewill . Apol . lib . 2 . Philos . 1. 2 ...
... stars ; hence were sustained so many constellations , so laborious , so greedy , * In lib . de Mundi constit . † 2 Pet . iii . 12 . Nat . quest . Plutarch de plac . lib . 2. cap . 5 . By Doctor Hakewill . Apol . lib . 2 . Philos . 1. 2 ...
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... star , but by a multitude of refractions , and so consequently we could not possibly find their true situations , either in re- spect of us , or in regard of one another : since whatever the eye discerns by a refracted beam , it ...
... star , but by a multitude of refractions , and so consequently we could not possibly find their true situations , either in re- spect of us , or in regard of one another : since whatever the eye discerns by a refracted beam , it ...
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