Physico-Theology: or, a Demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from his works of creation. Being the substance of XVI sermons preached in St. Mary le Bow-Church, London, at the Honble Mr. Boyle's Lectures, in the years 1711 and 1712. With large notes and many curious observations never before published |
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... Motion of the Air catifed by their fluttering , and fhaking their Wings , ( a thing worth trying in the Diving - Bell . ) I fhall leave the ingenious Reader to judge what the cause was of both the Birds living longer in com- preffed ...
... Motion of the Air catifed by their fluttering , and fhaking their Wings , ( a thing worth trying in the Diving - Bell . ) I fhall leave the ingenious Reader to judge what the cause was of both the Birds living longer in com- preffed ...
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... Motion and Conveyance of many of them . All the winged Tribes owe their Flight and Boyancy ( 8 ) hereunto , as fhall be fhewn in proper Place ; And even the watery Inhabitants themselves cannot afcend weak , but the Toad was quite dead ...
... Motion and Conveyance of many of them . All the winged Tribes owe their Flight and Boyancy ( 8 ) hereunto , as fhall be fhewn in proper Place ; And even the watery Inhabitants themselves cannot afcend weak , but the Toad was quite dead ...
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... Motion , inftead of refreshing and anima- ting , it would fuffocate and poifon all the World : But fodina receffibus furgere folebat , quod laborantes foffores burni profternebat , nec non portas & domicilia ( que fibi in bâc fodina ...
... Motion , inftead of refreshing and anima- ting , it would fuffocate and poifon all the World : But fodina receffibus furgere folebat , quod laborantes foffores burni profternebat , nec non portas & domicilia ( que fibi in bâc fodina ...
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... Motion of the Globules of the fecond Element . Vid . Cartes Princip . p . 3. S. 55 , & c . But with the Moderns , I take Light to confift of mate rial Particles , propagated from the Sun , and other luminous Bo- dies , not ...
... Motion of the Globules of the fecond Element . Vid . Cartes Princip . p . 3. S. 55 , & c . But with the Moderns , I take Light to confift of mate rial Particles , propagated from the Sun , and other luminous Bo- dies , not ...
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... Motion ; and it's vaft , Extenfion . 1. It is a very great Act of the Providence of God , that fo great a Benefit as Light is , is not long in its paffage from place to place . For was the Motion thereof no Twitter than the Motion of ...
... Motion ; and it's vaft , Extenfion . 1. It is a very great Act of the Providence of God , that fo great a Benefit as Light is , is not long in its paffage from place to place . For was the Motion thereof no Twitter than the Motion of ...
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