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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... true knowledge and place of the Stars , as the abfurd fictions and hypotheses of Epicycles and Excentricks of Ptolemy and his Followers , and their whims of folid Orbs , had formerly difturb'd and confounded the true Theories of the ...
... true knowledge and place of the Stars , as the abfurd fictions and hypotheses of Epicycles and Excentricks of Ptolemy and his Followers , and their whims of folid Orbs , had formerly difturb'd and confounded the true Theories of the ...
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... true Origin of their Errors and Mistakes . Tycho Brahe died in the year 1601 , two years after Bayer published his Uranometria ; wherein he gives us Maps of all the Conftella- tions . His figures are tolerable ; and the ftars are well ...
... true Origin of their Errors and Mistakes . Tycho Brahe died in the year 1601 , two years after Bayer published his Uranometria ; wherein he gives us Maps of all the Conftella- tions . His figures are tolerable ; and the ftars are well ...
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... true Projection of the Conftellations . To remedy which inconveniency , Mr. Flam- fted thought nothing fo neceffary as a new Me- thod of Projection , wherein all the Parallels of declination might be equidiftant ftraight Lines , and the ...
... true Projection of the Conftellations . To remedy which inconveniency , Mr. Flam- fted thought nothing fo neceffary as a new Me- thod of Projection , wherein all the Parallels of declination might be equidiftant ftraight Lines , and the ...
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... true enjoyment ; indulging the Mind in the most fublime and refin'd luxury , and rai- fing the Soul to its natural grandeur and feli- city ; acting as rational Creatures , endow'd with the noble faculties of thought and reflexion ...
... true enjoyment ; indulging the Mind in the most fublime and refin'd luxury , and rai- fing the Soul to its natural grandeur and feli- city ; acting as rational Creatures , endow'd with the noble faculties of thought and reflexion ...
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... true A- ftronomy ; or which better therefore deferves the countenance and encouragement of Sovereign Princes , or indeed of all wife States and Go- vernments ; were it only for the benefits and advantages that Navigation derives from it ...
... true A- ftronomy ; or which better therefore deferves the countenance and encouragement of Sovereign Princes , or indeed of all wife States and Go- vernments ; were it only for the benefits and advantages that Navigation derives from it ...
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Strona 45 - The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye that could take in the whole compass of nature, and pass from one end of the creation to the other...
Strona 183 - Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Strona 48 - Though the whole creation frowns upon him, and all nature looks black about him, he has his light and support within him, that are able to cheer his mind, and bear him up in the midst of all those horrors which encompass him.
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.
Strona 24 - ... out his play without minding the plot or beauties of it. And yet how few are there who attend to the drama of nature, its artificial structure, and...
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.
Strona 202 - To draw the Eye, or to allure the Heart, Poor were the Praife in Fortune to excel, Yet want the Way to ufe that Fortune well.
Strona 48 - ... and enliven all the powers of man. How happy therefore is an intellectual being, who, by prayer and meditation, by virtue and good works, opens this communication between God and his own...
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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.