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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... paffed through ? Is any thing of this nature too hard for the Almighty to perform ? Might not he , if there were not enough in the abyffe , bring water on the earth from the Heavens above , which might have been there from the Cre ...
... paffed through ? Is any thing of this nature too hard for the Almighty to perform ? Might not he , if there were not enough in the abyffe , bring water on the earth from the Heavens above , which might have been there from the Cre ...
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... paffed thorough the folid Orb than if it had been compofed of feveral concentrical Surfaces placed at fome diftance from one another , every one of which tranfmitted only the one half of the Rays of heat which fell upon it : this I ...
... paffed thorough the folid Orb than if it had been compofed of feveral concentrical Surfaces placed at fome diftance from one another , every one of which tranfmitted only the one half of the Rays of heat which fell upon it : this I ...
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... paffed thorough to the last as 299 to 1 , or as the ninty ninth power of 2 is to 1. How great a difproportion then would there be between the number of thofe Rays which fell upon the first furface and thofe which fell upon the laft ...
... paffed thorough to the last as 299 to 1 , or as the ninty ninth power of 2 is to 1. How great a difproportion then would there be between the number of thofe Rays which fell upon the first furface and thofe which fell upon the laft ...
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... the Theorists before him have done . In his Theory there are fome very ftrange coincidents which make it in- deed probable , that a Comet at the time of of the Deluge paffed by the Earth . It is 140 Remarks on Mr. Whifton's SOME ...
... the Theorists before him have done . In his Theory there are fome very ftrange coincidents which make it in- deed probable , that a Comet at the time of of the Deluge paffed by the Earth . It is 140 Remarks on Mr. Whifton's SOME ...
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... paffed by the Earth . It is furprizing to obferve the exact correfpon- dence between the Lunar and Solar year , upon the fuppofition of a circular Orbit , in which the Earth moved before the Deluge . It cannot but raise admiration in us ...
... paffed by the Earth . It is furprizing to obferve the exact correfpon- dence between the Lunar and Solar year , upon the fuppofition of a circular Orbit , in which the Earth moved before the Deluge . It cannot but raise admiration in us ...
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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...