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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... telling him the quality of that water , that it is brackish , salt , and not portable , and yet there were many vast creatures of all forms living in it , which make use of the water as we do of the air ; question- less he would laugh ...
... telling him the quality of that water , that it is brackish , salt , and not portable , and yet there were many vast creatures of all forms living in it , which make use of the water as we do of the air ; question- less he would laugh ...
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... tell otherwise how to rectify the thoughts of the reader , for an impartial survey of the fol- lowing discourse . : I must needs confess , though I had often thought with myself that it was possible there might be a world in the moon ...
... tell otherwise how to rectify the thoughts of the reader , for an impartial survey of the fol- lowing discourse . : I must needs confess , though I had often thought with myself that it was possible there might be a world in the moon ...
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... telling of an eclipse which fell in Xerxes's time , describes it thus : εnλITYY TYY EX T8 spave edgyv apavus § . The sun leaving his wonted seat in the heavens , vanished away : all which argues such a great darkness as could not have ...
... telling of an eclipse which fell in Xerxes's time , describes it thus : εnλITYY TYY EX T8 spave edgyv apavus § . The sun leaving his wonted seat in the heavens , vanished away : all which argues such a great darkness as could not have ...
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... tell you the true reason of it . And here , I think it is probable , that the light which appears in the moon at the eclipses , is no- thing else but the second species of the sun's rays , which pass through the shadow unto her body ...
... tell you the true reason of it . And here , I think it is probable , that the light which appears in the moon at the eclipses , is no- thing else but the second species of the sun's rays , which pass through the shadow unto her body ...
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... tell you , when he says * , That by it those things which could scarce at all be discerned by the eye , at the distance of a mile and a half , might plainly and distinctly be perceived for sixteen Italian miles , and that as they were ...
... tell you , when he says * , That by it those things which could scarce at all be discerned by the eye , at the distance of a mile and a half , might plainly and distinctly be perceived for sixteen Italian miles , and that as they were ...
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