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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... atmosphere , it will endeavour to expand it felf , and fill up a great space . If all the air therefore were equally denfe or compreft , every part would equally refift anothers preffure , and from thence there could arife no motion ...
... atmosphere , it will endeavour to expand it felf , and fill up a great space . If all the air therefore were equally denfe or compreft , every part would equally refift anothers preffure , and from thence there could arife no motion ...
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... , fince there is no reafon to affign any fuch ftrait limits to our Globe , for our Air is not enclos'd with walls , but beyond our Atmosphere there lyes a free and and open space : befides if there were any fuch Of the Theory . 89.
... , fince there is no reafon to affign any fuch ftrait limits to our Globe , for our Air is not enclos'd with walls , but beyond our Atmosphere there lyes a free and and open space : befides if there were any fuch Of the Theory . 89.
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... Atmospheres are very bright and luminous Fluids through which the beams of the Sun diffuse themfelves very freely ... Atmosphere of Comets are , would appear fo bright , or reflect the light fo fo ftrongly as they do . For it is easy ...
... Atmospheres are very bright and luminous Fluids through which the beams of the Sun diffuse themfelves very freely ... Atmosphere of Comets are , would appear fo bright , or reflect the light fo fo ftrongly as they do . For it is easy ...
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... Atmosphere , and that it doth not pass through the Body of it to illuminate all the other parts of it , which are therefore in- volved in thick darkness ; for it is evident that light paffes clearly through the whole Body of the Atmosphere ...
... Atmosphere , and that it doth not pass through the Body of it to illuminate all the other parts of it , which are therefore in- volved in thick darkness ; for it is evident that light paffes clearly through the whole Body of the Atmosphere ...
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... Atmosphere , without fuffering the leaft glimmering of light to pafs through them . For as Mr. Whiffon ob- ferves , the heat of a Comet when it paffes its Peribelion is fo exceffively great , as to laft many thousand years ; and we ...
... Atmosphere , without fuffering the leaft glimmering of light to pafs through them . For as Mr. Whiffon ob- ferves , the heat of a Comet when it paffes its Peribelion is fo exceffively great , as to laft many thousand years ; and we ...
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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...