A Compendium of Natural Philosophy: Being a Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation, Volume 3Thomas Tegg and Son, 1836 - Natural history |
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A Compendium of Natural Philosophy: Being a Survey of the Wisdom of God in ... John Wesley,Robert Mudie,Charles Bonnet No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 355 - On it place a globe, two feet in diameter; this will represent the Sun; Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit; Venus a pea, on a circle 284 feet in diameter; the Earth also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet; Mars a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet...
Page 129 - For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth ; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. He sealeth up the hand of every man ; that all men may know his work.
Page 355 - Earth also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet ; Juno, Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas, grains of sand, in orbits of from 1000 to 1200 feet; Jupiter, a moderate-sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across ; Saturn, a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; and Uranus, a full-sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter.
Page 186 - But at that day all such doing shall be laid aside, for the knowledge of the glory of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea...
Page 355 - Uranus a full-sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or, still worse, from those very childish toys called orreries, it is out of the question.
Page 129 - And God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth, and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and the herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind, and God saw that it was good.
Page 355 - Venus, a pea on a circle 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet ; Juno, Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas, grains of sand, in orbits of from...
Page 132 - Let us first consider this as it relates to the vegetable part of the creation. What a profusion of beauty and fragrancy, of shapes and colours, of smells and tastes, is scattered among the herbs and flowers of the ground, among the shrubs, the trees, and the fruits of the field ! Colouring in its original glory and perfection triumphs here ; red, yellow, green, blue, purple, with vastly more diversities than the rainbow ever knew, or the prism can represent, are distributed among the flowers and...
Page 126 - ... bird, and flower —by the material and mechanical springs of their own nature to continue their own species, but without any •uch intent or purpose.
Page 134 - ... feeble limbs as are unable to support themselves ! What a natural kind of prodigy it is, that chilling and burning vegetables should arise out of the same spot ; that the fever and frenzy should start up from the same bed where the palsy and the lethargy lie dormant in their seeds ! Is it not exceeding strange that healthful and poisonous juices should rise up, in their proper plants, out of the same common glebe, and that life and death should grow and thrive within an inch of each other ? What...