Poor Richard: the Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758Newly set into type & printed expressly for the Heritage Press, 1964 - Almanacs, American - 300 pages Wherein are retain'd in their entirety the author's prefaces, proverbs, verses & entertaining remarks ; together with those chronological, historical, and scientific observations which the author has illumin'd with his characteristic wit and wisdom. |
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Page 147
... round it in 365 Days , 6 Hours , & c . and that Day and Night are caused by the Turning of the Earth on its own Axis once round in 24 h . & c . The Ptolomean System , which prevail'd before Copernicus , suppos'd the Earth to be fix'd ...
... round it in 365 Days , 6 Hours , & c . and that Day and Night are caused by the Turning of the Earth on its own Axis once round in 24 h . & c . The Ptolomean System , which prevail'd before Copernicus , suppos'd the Earth to be fix'd ...
Page 233
... round him . To suppose that the Author of Nature had any View to us , when he created these secondary Planets or Moons , and gave them their Revolu- tions round Jupiter and Saturn ; to imagine that he intended those vast Bodies ( for ...
... round him . To suppose that the Author of Nature had any View to us , when he created these secondary Planets or Moons , and gave them their Revolu- tions round Jupiter and Saturn ; to imagine that he intended those vast Bodies ( for ...
Page 235
... round them , in the same Manner as our Earth and the other Planets of our System revolve round the Sun. If each of those innumerable Millions and Myriads of Luminaries be in fact , as is highly probable , a glorious Sun , a stupendous ...
... round them , in the same Manner as our Earth and the other Planets of our System revolve round the Sun. If each of those innumerable Millions and Myriads of Luminaries be in fact , as is highly probable , a glorious Sun , a stupendous ...
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