An Examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth: With Some Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory of the Earth. Also an Examination of the Reflections on the Theory of the Earth, and a Defence of the Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New TheoryH. Clements, 1734 - 414 páginas |
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... angle being on- ly proportional to ninety degrees , there must be more than four right angles about one point , and therefore the Corollary of the 13th of the firft of Euclid must be falfe . Thus has that fubtle Philofopher not only ...
... angle being on- ly proportional to ninety degrees , there must be more than four right angles about one point , and therefore the Corollary of the 13th of the firft of Euclid must be falfe . Thus has that fubtle Philofopher not only ...
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... angles , with the plane of the Ecliptick , and the earth in the mean time turned round the Sun as it does now , that then indeed the Sun would feem to rife and fet every day , and make its circuit from Weft to Eaft , under the fixed ...
... angles , with the plane of the Ecliptick , and the earth in the mean time turned round the Sun as it does now , that then indeed the Sun would feem to rife and fet every day , and make its circuit from Weft to Eaft , under the fixed ...
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... angles with the plane of the ecliptick , by which the Sun would feem to move in no other circle than the equator as the Theorift imagines it did before the Flood . is The next thing I am to make out is that the heat of the Sun in the ...
... angles with the plane of the ecliptick , by which the Sun would feem to move in no other circle than the equator as the Theorift imagines it did before the Flood . is The next thing I am to make out is that the heat of the Sun in the ...
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... angle of 66 ° But he has committed a far greater blunder than this which is not so easily to be forgiven him , for a World - maker ought at leaft to understand fomething of Aftronomy and of the Copernican fyftem which he em- braces ...
... angle of 66 ° But he has committed a far greater blunder than this which is not so easily to be forgiven him , for a World - maker ought at leaft to understand fomething of Aftronomy and of the Copernican fyftem which he em- braces ...
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... angle of 66 ° and keeping a po- fition always parallel to it felf and therefore whatever inclination one Pole had at any time of the year to the Sun , the oppofite Pole would have the fame inclination at the oppofite time of the year ...
... angle of 66 ° and keeping a po- fition always parallel to it felf and therefore whatever inclination one Pole had at any time of the year to the Sun , the oppofite Pole would have the fame inclination at the oppofite time of the year ...
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Página 236 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Página 237 - God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged ; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained ; and the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Página 236 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Página 2 - ... quite another law from this ; for the fquares of their periodical times are always as the cubes of their diftances, and therefore fince they do not obferve that law, which of neceffity they muft, if they fwim in a vortex, it is a demonftration that there are no vortices, in which the planets are carried round the fun.
Página 236 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Página 31 - ... which being once filled, all the overplus of water that comes thither runs over by the lowest place, and breaking out by the sides of the hills forms single springs...
Página 17 - Heaven and the earth ; and the earth was without form, and void, and darknefs was upon the face of the deep ; and the fpirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Página 30 - The trees of the Lord are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
Página 31 - Valleys between the Ridges of the Hills, and coming to unite, form little Rivulets or Brooks : many of thefe again meeting in one common Valley, and gaining the plain Ground, being grown...