A Compleat System of General Geography: Explaining the Nature and Properties of the Earth ...S. Austen, 1734 - 898 páginas |
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... Italians , Spaniards , French , and English . ( 9 ) Because the Knowledge of an English , French , and Rhin- landish Foot will be of ufe in what follows , we will here give their Proportions ; to which we fhall add the Measure of the ...
... Italians , Spaniards , French , and English . ( 9 ) Because the Knowledge of an English , French , and Rhin- landish Foot will be of ufe in what follows , we will here give their Proportions ; to which we fhall add the Measure of the ...
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... Italian or Roman Mile is 1000 Paces , which is equal to 4000 Rhinland Feet . Note , The Romans used to call their Mile Lapis , because a Stone was erected at the end of every Mile ; efpe- cially in Places adjacent to the City ...
... Italian or Roman Mile is 1000 Paces , which is equal to 4000 Rhinland Feet . Note , The Romans used to call their Mile Lapis , because a Stone was erected at the end of every Mile ; efpe- cially in Places adjacent to the City ...
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... Italian Mile ; of which 60 make a Degree . THE Arabian League was formerly accounted the twenty fifth Part of a Degree , or 19 Holland Miles : but they now use another of which 56 make a Degree . A HUNDRED Indian Miles are thought to ...
... Italian Mile ; of which 60 make a Degree . THE Arabian League was formerly accounted the twenty fifth Part of a Degree , or 19 Holland Miles : but they now use another of which 56 make a Degree . A HUNDRED Indian Miles are thought to ...
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... Italians , when they began to study Astronomy , made ufe of Ptolemy's Measure , viz . 180.000 Furlongs ( which make 21.600 Italian Miles , or 5.400 German ; fo that 60 of the former , and 15 of the later was thought to make a Degree ...
... Italians , when they began to study Astronomy , made ufe of Ptolemy's Measure , viz . 180.000 Furlongs ( which make 21.600 Italian Miles , or 5.400 German ; fo that 60 of the former , and 15 of the later was thought to make a Degree ...
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... Italian Mile ) . Therefore by the Golden Rule , as 7 degr . 12 min . is to 1 degr . ( or as % to 30 , or as 36 to 5 ) fo is 5000 to 694 Furlongs in degr . Or as is to 1 , ( or as I to 50 ) fo is 5000 to 25000 Furlongs , the whole ...
... Italian Mile ) . Therefore by the Golden Rule , as 7 degr . 12 min . is to 1 degr . ( or as % to 30 , or as 36 to 5 ) fo is 5000 to 694 Furlongs in degr . Or as is to 1 , ( or as I to 50 ) fo is 5000 to 25000 Furlongs , the whole ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Afia Africa againſt alfo almoſt alſo Altitude Angle Arch Atlantic Ocean becauſe Bodies called Caufe Cauſe Center Chanel Chap Coaft Coaſt continually Courſe Defarts degr demonftrated depreffed Diameter diſcovered Diſtance diurnal Motion Eaft Earth Eaſt faid falt fame Fath fecond feem feven feveral fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt flow fmall fome fome Places fometimes fpherical freſh fubterraneous fuch fuppofe Furlongs furrounded German Miles Globe greateſt Gulph hath Height Hypothefis increaſe Indian Indian Ocean Iſlands itſelf Lake Land leaſt lefs Malacca Meaſure Meridian moft Moon moſt Motion Mountains Muscovy muſt North Nova Zembla Number obferved Ocean Pacific Ocean Paffage paffing Particles Periphery Peru Philof Pole PROPOSITION raiſed Reaſon reft rife Rivers Salt Sea-Water SECT Semidiameter ſhall Shore ſmall South Springs Stars Streights Superficies tain thefe themſelves ther theſe thofe thoſe thro Tides tion uſe vaft Vapours Water Weft whence whofe Winds
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Página 89 - ... even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one, in the first creation. While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed.
Página 141 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Página 89 - And therefore that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations and new associations and motions of these permanent particles; compound bodies being apt to break, not in the midst of solid particles, but where those particles are laid together and only touch in a few points.
Página 92 - Thou, saidst, Let the waters be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear, which thirsteth after Thee?
Página 149 - I walked so far before my companions up the mountain, along the side of the river of fire, that I was obliged to retire in great haste, the sulphureous stream having surprised me, and almost taken away my breath.
Página 148 - Hill, I could difcern it to be filled with red hot liquid Matter, like that in the Furnace of a Glafs-houfe...
Página 427 - Refraction of the atmosphere. 85 feet above the general level of the surrounding fluid, and therefore the weight of a column of air reaching to the top of the...
Página 148 - ... came only out of the hole to our left, while the liquid stuff in the other mouth wrought and overflowed, as hath been already described.
Página 300 - Hypothefis is more reafonable than that of thofe who (derive all Springs from the Rain-waters, which yet are perpetual and without diminution, even when no Rain falls for a long fpace.of time ; or that derive them from a Filtration or Percolation of the Sea-waters, thro' certain imaginary Tubes or Paflages within the Earth wherein they lofe their Saltnefs.
Página 245 - Phenomenon in Nature that has so much exercised and puzzled the Wits of Philosophers and learned men as this. Some have thought the Earth and Sea to be a living Creature, which, by its Respiration, causeth this ebbing and flowing. Others imagined that it proceeds, and is. provoked, from a great Whirlpool near Norway, which for six Hours absorbs the Water, and afterwards disgorges it in the same space of Time. Scaliger, and others, supposed that it is caused by the opposite Shores, especially of America,...