The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements |
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... distances from it , is reciprocally as the squares of those distances ; and at the same distance , the force of the attraction or gravitation of one part towards divers others , is as the quan- tity of matter they contain . These are ...
... distances from it , is reciprocally as the squares of those distances ; and at the same distance , the force of the attraction or gravitation of one part towards divers others , is as the quan- tity of matter they contain . These are ...
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... distance from it ; the light proceeding from every one of these objects , will be propagated through this hole , without interfering . Mr. Romer , from his accurate observations of the eclipses on the Satellites of Jupiter , their ...
... distance from it ; the light proceeding from every one of these objects , will be propagated through this hole , without interfering . Mr. Romer , from his accurate observations of the eclipses on the Satellites of Jupiter , their ...
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... improved now to the dimensions even of eighty feet , whereby objects of a mighty distance are brought much nearer to us , is an instrument wherewith our good God has in a sin- gular * 3 . THE 21 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER .
... improved now to the dimensions even of eighty feet , whereby objects of a mighty distance are brought much nearer to us , is an instrument wherewith our good God has in a sin- gular * 3 . THE 21 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER .
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... distance of the sun from us is 12,000 diameters of the earth . A diameter of the earth is 7,846 miles . The dis- tance of the nearest fixed stars from us , compared with that of the sun , is as 27,664 to 1 : So then the distance of the ...
... distance of the sun from us is 12,000 diameters of the earth . A diameter of the earth is 7,846 miles . The dis- tance of the nearest fixed stars from us , compared with that of the sun , is as 27,664 to 1 : So then the distance of the ...
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... distance from us that causes the best of our telescopes to lessen them . Though we in this globe approach nearer to them , some 24,000 diameters of the earth , or 188,304,000 iniles , one time of the year than another ; yet their ...
... distance from us that causes the best of our telescopes to lessen them . Though we in this globe approach nearer to them , some 24,000 diameters of the earth , or 188,304,000 iniles , one time of the year than another ; yet their ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 3 - God ; while by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ...