Astro-theology, Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God: From a Survey of the HeavensW. Innys, 1715 - 228 páginas |
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Página vii
... some of my ingenious Friends do expect more ) but that I lay under two inconveniences . One the want of an open free Horizon , my Habitation being furrounded much with Trees . The other , and indeed the chief , the want of a long Pole ...
... some of my ingenious Friends do expect more ) but that I lay under two inconveniences . One the want of an open free Horizon , my Habitation being furrounded much with Trees . The other , and indeed the chief , the want of a long Pole ...
Página xxxiii
... Some of the Brethren ( faith he ) move a Question , whether the Heavens ftand fill or are moved , because , Jay they , if they are moved , how is it a Firmament ? and if they stand still , how do the Stars , which are believed to be ...
... Some of the Brethren ( faith he ) move a Question , whether the Heavens ftand fill or are moved , because , Jay they , if they are moved , how is it a Firmament ? and if they stand still , how do the Stars , which are believed to be ...
Página xlvii
... some reasons to imagine that there are many more New Stars in the Milky Way ( all which I take to be a kind of Planetary Globes ) than have ever yet been taken notice of , and that many of thofe prodigious numbers of Telescopical Stars ...
... some reasons to imagine that there are many more New Stars in the Milky Way ( all which I take to be a kind of Planetary Globes ) than have ever yet been taken notice of , and that many of thofe prodigious numbers of Telescopical Stars ...
Página liii
... some parts of these laft named , the Spots appear darker , and with but few of those Eminences or lands , those brighter or fhallow parts . Thus the Northerly Euxine , and Mediterranean , the Palus Mæotis , and many other of thofe Lunar ...
... some parts of these laft named , the Spots appear darker , and with but few of those Eminences or lands , those brighter or fhallow parts . Thus the Northerly Euxine , and Mediterranean , the Palus Mæotis , and many other of thofe Lunar ...
Página liv
From a Survey of the Heavens William Derham. B at some miles aloft . We should there perceive our deep Oceans would be of a darker colour , like the darker Spots of the Moon ; and the single Isles of St. Helena and Afcenfion , and the ...
From a Survey of the Heavens William Derham. B at some miles aloft . We should there perceive our deep Oceans would be of a darker colour , like the darker Spots of the Moon ; and the single Isles of St. Helena and Afcenfion , and the ...
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affigned alfo alſo appear becauſe befides cafe Caffini caufe cauſe CHAP Comets confequently confiderable conftancy Contriver CREATOR Demonftration Deor Diameter difcern diſcovered Diurnal Diurnal Motion divers divine doth due Diſtance Earth English Miles Erraticks eſpecially faid faith fame farther feem feen felf feveral fhall fhew fhewn fhould fide fince Fixt Stars fome fometimes fteme ftill fuch fufficient fuppofed Glaffes Globe Gravity greateſt hath Heavenly Bodies Heavens Huygens imagine immenfe infinite Jupiter Jupiter's Lactantius laft leaft leffer lefs leſs Light and Heat Magnitude manifeft manifeftly Meaſures moft Moon moſt Motion move muſt neceffary neceffity Obfervations occafion Orbit Orbs poffible Pole prefent Primary Planets probable prodigious proportion Ptolemaick Rays reafon reft revolving round Satellites Saturn Seas Selenography Semidiameter ſhall Solar ſome ſpeak Spots ſuch Sun's Syfteme Teleſcope Terraqueous thefe themſelves ther theſe thofe thoſe Univerſe uſe vaft vifible Wandering Suns whofe World
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Página lxiv - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Página 173 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Página 24 - ... and distance of the fixed stars. We admire, indeed with propriety, the vast bulk of our own globe ; but, when we consider how much it is surpassed by most of the heavenly bodies, what a point it degenerates into, and how little more even the vast orbit in which it revolves would appear, when seen from some of the fixed stars, we begin to conceive more just ideas of the extent of the universe, and of the boundaries of creation.
Página xliii - Glafles, fo confequently above our ability to fathotrij although not at all improbable. But be the various Syftemes of the Univerfe as they will as to their Dignity, it is fufficient that in all probability there -are many of them, even as many as there are Fixt Stars, which are without number.
Página 57 - ... and land to be thy houfe, thy workmanfhip, and not that of the immortal gods !" And fo when we fee fuch good order, fuch due proportions in this region of the...
Página vii - The chief inconvenience is the want of a long pole of 100 or more feet, to raise my long glass to such a height as to see the heavenly bodies above the thick vapors.
Página xli - But then whereas the Copernican hypothesis supposeth the Firmament of the Fixt stars to be the bounds of the Universe, and to be placed at an equal...
Página xxxviii - ... that whilft you were up in the air, the floor under your feet had run the contrary way to your leap. And if you caft any thing to your companion, you need ufe no more...
Página 99 - ... sun (P. Africanus) was extinguished. These things terrified mankind, and raised in them a firm belief of the existence of some celestial and divine power. His fourth cause, and that the strongest, is drawn from the regularity of the motion and revolution of the heavens, the distinctness, variety, beauty, and order of the sun, moon, and all the stars, the appearance only of which is sufficient to convince us they are not the effects of chance ; as when we enter into a house, or school, or court,...
Página 36 - Univerfe be ft. 39 becoming the infinite CREATOR, than any other of the narrower Schemes. For here we have the Works of the Creation, not confined to the more fcanty limits of the Orb> or Arch of the Fixt Stars, or even the larger Space of the Primum Mobile, which the ancients...