The Inverted Scheme of Copernicus: With the Pretended Experiments Upon which His Followers Have Founded Their Hypotheses of Matter and Motion ... Contrasted with the Formation of One World by Divine Power, as it is Revealed in the History of Creation ... to which is Prefixed a Letter to Sir Humphry Davy ... |
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Page 39
... increased in proportion as the square of its distance exceeds that of the other . " A mere mathematical conceit founded on the form and properties of the sphere , as will be noticed further on . † His doctrine of light and colours he ...
... increased in proportion as the square of its distance exceeds that of the other . " A mere mathematical conceit founded on the form and properties of the sphere , as will be noticed further on . † His doctrine of light and colours he ...
Page 54
... increase the heat of the sun that this earth would be burnt and no animals in it could live . ” No wonder that people are so dreadfully alarmed at the appearance of these bodies ! -as I had an opportunity of witnessing in the year 1811 ...
... increase the heat of the sun that this earth would be burnt and no animals in it could live . ” No wonder that people are so dreadfully alarmed at the appearance of these bodies ! -as I had an opportunity of witnessing in the year 1811 ...
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... increase the number of its satellites . How unfortunate that the world has not seen one satellite formed out of them ; because that might have been produced as an experimental proof of the truth of his system ! In pro- ceeding in the ...
... increase the number of its satellites . How unfortunate that the world has not seen one satellite formed out of them ; because that might have been produced as an experimental proof of the truth of his system ! In pro- ceeding in the ...
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... increased them a hundred fold . He then goes on , " The labour of many ages has at length withdrawn the veil which covered the system . " That is to say , the labours of a few speculative sophists , during the last two hundred years ...
... increased them a hundred fold . He then goes on , " The labour of many ages has at length withdrawn the veil which covered the system . " That is to say , the labours of a few speculative sophists , during the last two hundred years ...
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... increasing the velocity , we may at pleasure increase the distance to which it might be projected , and diminish the curvature of the line , which it might describe , till at last it should fall at the distance of ten , thirty , or ...
... increasing the velocity , we may at pleasure increase the distance to which it might be projected , and diminish the curvature of the line , which it might describe , till at last it should fall at the distance of ten , thirty , or ...
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Page 38 - ... these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Page 93 - And I will establish my covenant with you ; neither shall all flesh be cut off" any more by the waters of a flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Page 2 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 16 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 38 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Page 38 - ... even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one, in the first creation. While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed.
Page 119 - And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Page 76 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, And set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 155 - For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...