The Present State of the Republick of Letters. ...William and John Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's., 1732 |
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... most remote Northern Countries , the South Continent , and the Coun- try of Magellan . They did not know it was poffible to fail round the World ; and that the Torrid Zone was inhabited . They were ignorant of the true Measure of the ...
... most remote Northern Countries , the South Continent , and the Coun- try of Magellan . They did not know it was poffible to fail round the World ; and that the Torrid Zone was inhabited . They were ignorant of the true Measure of the ...
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... most of which the Annotator undertakes to folve by the Laws of Mechanicks . In the feventh Chapter , Va- renius lays down this Propofition , which is the 6th . The Confiftence or Coherence of the Particles of the Earth is from Salt . To ...
... most of which the Annotator undertakes to folve by the Laws of Mechanicks . In the feventh Chapter , Va- renius lays down this Propofition , which is the 6th . The Confiftence or Coherence of the Particles of the Earth is from Salt . To ...
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... most forts of Bodies are replete with faline and vitriolic Par- ticles , which may in fome Means contribute to their Coagulation and Confolidation ; yet the primary and naturally indivifible Corpufcles , of which the Particles of all ...
... most forts of Bodies are replete with faline and vitriolic Par- ticles , which may in fome Means contribute to their Coagulation and Confolidation ; yet the primary and naturally indivifible Corpufcles , of which the Particles of all ...
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... most part on very high Mountains . He therefore inclines to the latter , which is not charged with this Difficulty , there being , ac- cording to this Hypothefis , no Neceffity of ex- plaining this , neither to hinder the Growth of the ...
... most part on very high Mountains . He therefore inclines to the latter , which is not charged with this Difficulty , there being , ac- cording to this Hypothefis , no Neceffity of ex- plaining this , neither to hinder the Growth of the ...
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... most reasonable , and de- fends it against four Objections . On this Oc- cafion the learned Dr. Jurin fays , it is pro- bable that all Springs have not the fame Origin ; that fome proceed from Rain penetrating through the Fiffures of ...
... most reasonable , and de- fends it against four Objections . On this Oc- cafion the learned Dr. Jurin fays , it is pro- bable that all Springs have not the fame Origin ; that fome proceed from Rain penetrating through the Fiffures of ...
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Page 166 - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Page 165 - And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament : and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
Page 308 - Haemastatics, or an account of some hydraulic and hydrostatical experiments made on the blood and blood vessels of animals. Also an account of some experiments on stones in the kidneys and bladder, with an enquiry into the nature of those anomalous concretions. To which is added an appendix containing observations and experiments relating to several subjects in the first volume. The greatest part of which were read at several meetings of the Royal Society.
Page 343 - Organum," the design of which was, to execute the second part of the " Instauration," by advancing a more perfect method of using the rational faculty than men were before acquainted with, in order to raise and improve the understanding, as far as its present imperfect state admits, and enable it to conquer and interpret the difficulties and obscurities of nature. This work his majesty received as graciously as he could wish, and wrote, him a letter upon it, which certainly does honour to both their...
Page 64 - Most of the letters have four forms in writing, depending on whether they occur at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a word or whether they stand separately.
Page 17 - Mountains j each of which far furpafi the ufual height to which the Aqueous Vapours of themfelves afcend, and on the tops of which the Air is fo cold and rarificd, as to retain but a fmall part of thofe Vapours, that fhall be brought thither by Winds.
Page 168 - A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
Page 124 - In the eighth century, by rooting up and subduing the Exarchate of Ravenna, the kingdom of the Lombards, and the Senate and Dukedom of Rome, he acquired Peter's Patrimony out of their dominions; and thereby rose up as a temporal Prince or King, or horn of the fourth Beast.
Page 297 - Praife both when the firft Evening was and the firft Morning. AND GOD faid, let there be a Firmament in the Midft of the Waters, and let it divide the Waters from the Waters.
Page 2 - Paganifm , or the Religion of the prefent Romans, derived from that of their HeathenAnceftors.