The Present State of the Republick of Letters. ...William and John Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's., 1729 |
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... 476th year of Nabonaffar , or 276 before Chrift . Tymocharis and Ariftillus , who lived about 800 years before Chrift , obferved the appulfes of of the Moon to the fixed Stars , about 295 6 Art . 1 . The Prefent State of.
... 476th year of Nabonaffar , or 276 before Chrift . Tymocharis and Ariftillus , who lived about 800 years before Chrift , obferved the appulfes of of the Moon to the fixed Stars , about 295 6 Art . 1 . The Prefent State of.
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... lived on a Planet ; that the Sun is feveral thoufand times bigger than the Earth ; and that there are innumerable other Worlds within our view , much greater and more glori- ous than our own ? This many of them will readily own ...
... lived on a Planet ; that the Sun is feveral thoufand times bigger than the Earth ; and that there are innumerable other Worlds within our view , much greater and more glori- ous than our own ? This many of them will readily own ...
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... lived before the inven- tion of the Telescope , that if the motions of the Planets were fuch as he fuppofed them to be , that then Venus ought to undergo the fame Changes and Phafes as the Moon does . Co- pernicus answered , that ...
... lived before the inven- tion of the Telescope , that if the motions of the Planets were fuch as he fuppofed them to be , that then Venus ought to undergo the fame Changes and Phafes as the Moon does . Co- pernicus answered , that ...
Strona 105
... lived in David's time . This Author faith , that this Ammon was Ham the Son of Noah , from whom Egypt is called the Land of Ham ; and that long before the time of David there was a Pharaoh , who made Jofeph his Deputy over all the Land ...
... lived in David's time . This Author faith , that this Ammon was Ham the Son of Noah , from whom Egypt is called the Land of Ham ; and that long before the time of David there was a Pharaoh , who made Jofeph his Deputy over all the Land ...
Strona 106
... lived . And tho ' Sir Ifaac faith , that Bacchus fignifies the great ; yet this Author fays that there is no fuch derivation . Sir Ifaac faith , that Geography began in Re- boboam's Sir 106 The Prefent State of Art . 12 .
... lived . And tho ' Sir Ifaac faith , that Bacchus fignifies the great ; yet this Author fays that there is no fuch derivation . Sir Ifaac faith , that Geography began in Re- boboam's Sir 106 The Prefent State of Art . 12 .
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Strona 46 - It would be an imperfection in him, were he able to remove out of one place into .another, or to withdraw himself from any thing he has created, or from any part of that space which is diffused and spread abroad to infinity.
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Strona 47 - Brutes and men have their sensoriola, or little sensoriums, by which they apprehend the presence and perceive the actions of a few objects that lie contiguous to them. Their knowledge and observation turn within a very narrow circle.
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Strona 2 - Faith, in the Year of our Lord 258. Together with his Life. Written by his own Deacon Pontius. All done into English from the Oxford Edition, and illustrated with divers Notes.