The Mathematical and Philosophical Works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins ...: To which is Prefixed the Author's Life and an Account of His Works, Band 1C. Whittingham, 1802 |
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... bigger than his cart - wheel , since both seem equally to contradict his sight , and he has not reason enough to lead him farther than his senses . Nay , suppose ( saith Plutarch ) a philosopher should be educated in such a secret place ...
... bigger than his cart - wheel , since both seem equally to contradict his sight , and he has not reason enough to lead him farther than his senses . Nay , suppose ( saith Plutarch ) a philosopher should be educated in such a secret place ...
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... bigger to us than the diameter of the sun . But here Julius Cæsar once more puts in to hinder our passage . The moon ( saith he * ) is not altogether opacous , because it is still of the same nature with the heavens , which are ...
... bigger to us than the diameter of the sun . But here Julius Cæsar once more puts in to hinder our passage . The moon ( saith he * ) is not altogether opacous , because it is still of the same nature with the heavens , which are ...
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... bigger part of the cone ; and so the refraction passing through a greater medium , the light must needs be weaker which doth proceed from it . If you ask now , What the reason may be of that light which we discern in the darker part of ...
... bigger part of the cone ; and so the refraction passing through a greater medium , the light must needs be weaker which doth proceed from it . If you ask now , What the reason may be of that light which we discern in the darker part of ...
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... bigger than in themselves they are ; as I shall shew after- wards . To the second it may be answered , That though the water be of a smooth superficies , and so may seem most fit to reverberate the light , yet because it is of a ...
... bigger than in themselves they are ; as I shall shew after- wards . To the second it may be answered , That though the water be of a smooth superficies , and so may seem most fit to reverberate the light , yet because it is of a ...
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... bigger than any of us , in the same pro- portion as their days are longer than ours , viz . by fifteen times ; it may be , for want of stones to erect such vast houses as were requisite for their bodies , they are fain to dig great and ...
... bigger than any of us , in the same pro- portion as their days are longer than ours , viz . by fifteen times ; it may be , for want of stones to erect such vast houses as were requisite for their bodies , they are fain to dig great and ...
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Seite 167 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Seite 154 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Seite 177 - They go up by the mountains; They go down by the valleys Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
Seite 172 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Seite 141 - I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear : But now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Seite 121 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shall thou eat all the days of thy life...
Seite 177 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb...
Seite 127 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, And hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; And the cloud is not rent under them.
Seite 168 - If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be.
Seite 109 - That it is possible for some of our posterity to find out a conveyance to this other world, and if there be inhabitants there, to have commerce with them.