A New Theory of Physical Astronomy, Established Upon Analogy, and the Laws of Chemical Action |
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Page 36 - Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. " And God said, let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and
Page 3 - Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another ; though my reins be consumed within me."* It
Page 36 - it divide the waters from the waters. " And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under
Page 77 - in the north, and almost at the same time in the northeast, which gradually increasing, comprehend a large space of the heavens, rush about from place to place with incredible velocity, and finally, almost cover the whole sky up to the zenith. The
Page 109 - and it is remarkable that, in that part of the world it does not descend above half as much, for every 200 feet of elevation as it does beyond the tropics.* In the torrid zone too, the barometer is elevated about
Page 25 - when they act upon a calorific medium: they are the cause of the production of heat, by uniting with the matter of
Page 25 - it may not be amiss to remove a certain difficulty which arises from the effect of the Sun's rays upon our globe. The heat which is here, at the distance of
Page 77 - zenith, and produce an appearance as if a vast tent was expanded in the heavens, glittering with gold, rubies, and sapphires,
Page 52 - and Appian imagined that the tail was occasioned by the rays of the Sun, transmitted through the nucleus of the Comet, which they believed to be transparent
Page 121 - Winds appear usually to begin at that point towards which they blow :* they must therefore be owing to a rarefaction or displacing of the air in some particular quarter, either by the