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... van Staveren , & c . It is needlefs to mention the editions . of fuch authors as are always divided in the fame man- ner . EDINBURGH , 15th May 1794 . } CON- CONTENTS . IGURE and MOTION of the EARTH , FIGURE PREFACE .
... van Staveren , & c . It is needlefs to mention the editions . of fuch authors as are always divided in the fame man- ner . EDINBURGH , 15th May 1794 . } CON- CONTENTS . IGURE and MOTION of the EARTH , FIGURE PREFACE .
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... earth . GE The figure of the earth is round . This might have always been known , from the fhadow of the earth in an eclipfe of the moon ; but it was first completely af- certained by Magellan , a native of Portugal , in the service of ...
... earth . GE The figure of the earth is round . This might have always been known , from the fhadow of the earth in an eclipfe of the moon ; but it was first completely af- certained by Magellan , a native of Portugal , in the service of ...
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... earth is occafioned by every thing on it being attracted to its centre , which is called gravitation or attrac tion . Mountains bear no fenfible proportion to the bulk of the earth , no more than a particle of duft to an artificial ...
... earth is occafioned by every thing on it being attracted to its centre , which is called gravitation or attrac tion . Mountains bear no fenfible proportion to the bulk of the earth , no more than a particle of duft to an artificial ...
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... earth to be round , as its very name ( ORBIS terræ vel terrarum , globus vel sphæra , ) indi- cates , Plin . ii . 64. & 65. Ovid defcribes it as a globe fufpend- ed in the air , and poised by its own weight , ( ponderibus librata fuis ...
... earth to be round , as its very name ( ORBIS terræ vel terrarum , globus vel sphæra , ) indi- cates , Plin . ii . 64. & 65. Ovid defcribes it as a globe fufpend- ed in the air , and poised by its own weight , ( ponderibus librata fuis ...
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... earth . Jupiter and Saturn have other bodies , which move round them as the moon does round the earth , which are therefore called their SATELLITES , moons , or fecondary planets to the pri- mary . Jupiter has four , and Saturn feven ...
... earth . Jupiter and Saturn have other bodies , which move round them as the moon does round the earth , which are therefore called their SATELLITES , moons , or fecondary planets to the pri- mary . Jupiter has four , and Saturn feven ...
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Page 632 - Calcutta is, in part, an exception to this rule of building; for there, the quarter inhabited by the English, is composed entirely of brick buildings, many of which have more the appearance of palaces than of private houses...
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Page 14 - ... eclipses were occasioned by the temporary extinction of the sun, and that there were several suns for the convenience of the different climates of the earth. Yet this man held the chair of philosophy at Athens for seventy years. Philolaus, a Pythagorian philosopher of Crotona, BC 374. He first supported the diurnal motion of the earth round its axis, and its annual motion round the sun. Cicero (Acad. iv. 39), has ascribed this opinion to the Syracusan philosopher Nicetas, and likewise to Plato....
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