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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... probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon . With a Discourse of the Possibility of a Passage thither . II . That it is probable our Earth is one of the Planets . LONDON : PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM , Dean Street , Fetter ...
... probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon . With a Discourse of the Possibility of a Passage thither . II . That it is probable our Earth is one of the Planets . LONDON : PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM , Dean Street , Fetter ...
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... probable there may be another habitable World in the Moon . Printed at London , in quarto , 1638 , and had four editions , the last in 1684 . 2. Discourse concerning the Possibility of a Pas- sage to the World in the Moon . Printed with ...
... probable there may be another habitable World in the Moon . Printed at London , in quarto , 1638 , and had four editions , the last in 1684 . 2. Discourse concerning the Possibility of a Pas- sage to the World in the Moon . Printed with ...
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... probable there may be such meteors belong- ing to that world in the moon , as there are with us XIII . That it is probable there may be inhabitants in this Page 56 63 115 75 79 90 other world ; but of what kind they are is uncertain ...
... probable there may be such meteors belong- ing to that world in the moon , as there are with us XIII . That it is probable there may be inhabitants in this Page 56 63 115 75 79 90 other world ; but of what kind they are is uncertain ...
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... probable that the sun is in the centre of the world 203 VIII . That there is not any sufficient reason to prove the earth incapable of those motions which Copernicus ascribes unto it 208 ....... IX . That it is more probable the earth ...
... probable that the sun is in the centre of the world 203 VIII . That there is not any sufficient reason to prove the earth incapable of those motions which Copernicus ascribes unto it 208 ....... IX . That it is more probable the earth ...
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... probable unto thy reason ; and then I doubt not , but either thou wilt agree with me in this assertion , or at least not think it to be as far from truth , as it is from common opinion . Two cautions there are , which I would willingly ...
... probable unto thy reason ; and then I doubt not , but either thou wilt agree with me in this assertion , or at least not think it to be as far from truth , as it is from common opinion . Two cautions there are , which I would willingly ...
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Beliebte Passagen
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.