The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious ImprovementsPublished at the Middlesex Bookstore. J. M'Kown, printer, 1815 - 324 páginas |
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... moving forwards in a straight line , unless forced out of that state , by some violence outwardly impressed upon them . II . The changes made in the motions of bodies , are always proportional to the impressed force that moves them ...
... moving forwards in a straight line , unless forced out of that state , by some violence outwardly impressed upon them . II . The changes made in the motions of bodies , are always proportional to the impressed force that moves them ...
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... move 9000 miles . He shews , that the rays of light require ten minutes of time to pass from the sun to us . And yet Mr. Hugens hath shewn , that a bullet from a cannon , without abating its first velo- city , would be 25 years passing ...
... move 9000 miles . He shews , that the rays of light require ten minutes of time to pass from the sun to us . And yet Mr. Hugens hath shewn , that a bullet from a cannon , without abating its first velo- city , would be 25 years passing ...
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... moving with the rest , and yet would not finish its revolution under the space of 7000 years . It is easy to conceive with ... move near so much as an hair's breadth and as Mersennus notes , it would not pass an inch in 1,000,000 years ...
... moving with the rest , and yet would not finish its revolution under the space of 7000 years . It is easy to conceive with ... move near so much as an hair's breadth and as Mersennus notes , it would not pass an inch in 1,000,000 years ...
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... move about him , and in doing so , cast a shadow upon him . Saturn has a ring encompassing him . That each of these planets have spots in their superficies , like those of the Moon . That not only each of these planets , but the Sun ...
... move about him , and in doing so , cast a shadow upon him . Saturn has a ring encompassing him . That each of these planets have spots in their superficies , like those of the Moon . That not only each of these planets , but the Sun ...
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... move in their orbits farther from us . It is a surprising observation of Dr. Cheyne : " Supposing that every fixed star is a sun , and governs in a mundine space , equal to our system , then there must be only as many fixed stars of the ...
... move in their orbits farther from us . It is a surprising observation of Dr. Cheyne : " Supposing that every fixed star is a sun , and governs in a mundine space , equal to our system , then there must be only as many fixed stars of the ...
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The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature ... Cotton Mather Vista de fragmentos - 1968 |
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Página 91 - 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.
Página 153 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Página 46 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Página 105 - The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Página 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the...
Página 279 - Are not the species of objects seen with both eyes, united where the optic nerves meet, before they come into the brain, the fibres on the right side of both nerves, uniting there, and after union going thence into the brain in the nerve which is on the right side of the head, and the fibres on the left side of both nerves uniting in the same place, and after union going into the brain in the nerve which is on the left side of the head ; and these two nerves meeting in the brain...
Página 3 - God ; while by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ...