The Inverted Scheme of Copernicus: With the Pretended Experiments Upon which His Followers Have Founded Their Hypotheses of Matter and Motion ... Contrasted with the Formation of One World by Divine Power, as it is Revealed in the History of Creation ... to which is Prefixed a Letter to Sir Humphry Davy ... |
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... burning glasses , goes so far as to assert , that " it must be absurd to pretend , that the ancients had the knowledge of compound burning - glasses , such as consist of pieces of plain looking - glass put together in the manner of the ...
... burning glasses , goes so far as to assert , that " it must be absurd to pretend , that the ancients had the knowledge of compound burning - glasses , such as consist of pieces of plain looking - glass put together in the manner of the ...
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... glasses as the modern philosophers seem disposed to represent . The asser- tion of the writer , which I have quoted , denies that the ancients had a knowledge of the construction of burning glasses , or the art of making looking - glasses ...
... glasses as the modern philosophers seem disposed to represent . The asser- tion of the writer , which I have quoted , denies that the ancients had a knowledge of the construction of burning glasses , or the art of making looking - glasses ...
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... glasses . " Nor were the ancients ignorant of refracting burning- glasses . Aristophanes , in the Comedy of the Clouds , in ridicule , represents Socrates examining Strepsides about the method he had discovered of getting clear of his ...
... glasses . " Nor were the ancients ignorant of refracting burning- glasses . Aristophanes , in the Comedy of the Clouds , in ridicule , represents Socrates examining Strepsides about the method he had discovered of getting clear of his ...
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... burning - glasses of parabolic and other forms . In the twelfth volume of the Biographical Dictionary , published in the year 1784 , it is mentioned under the name PTOLEMY , that Mabillon , in his German Travels , exhibits a figure of ...
... burning - glasses of parabolic and other forms . In the twelfth volume of the Biographical Dictionary , published in the year 1784 , it is mentioned under the name PTOLEMY , that Mabillon , in his German Travels , exhibits a figure of ...
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Page 38 - ... these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, 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.
Page 93 - And I will establish my covenant with you ; neither shall all flesh be cut off" any more by the waters of a flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Page 2 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 16 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 38 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Page 38 - ... 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.
Page 119 - And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Page 76 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, And set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 155 - For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...