Category: Science - Physics
This Book was juſt finiſhed, and deſigned for the Preſs, when the Author, to the great loſs of the Learned World, was ſeized by a Diſeaſe that brought him to his Death. However he took care in his laſt Will of its Publication, deſiring his Brother, to whom it was writ, to take...
This Book was juſt finiſhed, and deſigned for the Preſs, when the Author, to the great loſs of the Learned World, was ſeized by a Diſeaſe that brought him to his Death. However...
2. Part 2But now to carry the Search farther, let us ſee by what Steps we muſt riſe to the attaining ſome knowledge in the deeper Secrets concerning the State and Furniture of theſe new...
3. Part 3But if we allow theſe Planetary Inhabitants ſome ſort of Reaſon, muſt it needs, may ſome ſay, be the ſame with ours? Certainly it muſt, whether we conſider it as applied to Juſt...
4. Part 4For, Firſt: No Obſervations of the Stars that are neceſſary to the Knowledge of their Motions, can be made without Inſtruments; nor can theſe be made without Metal, Wood, or ſom...
5. Part 5It’s the ſame with Muſick as with Geometry, it’s every where immutably the ſame, and always will be ſo. For all Harmony conſiſts in Concord, and Concord is all the World over fi...
6. Part 6The Inhabitants of Venus have much the ſame Face of Things as thoſe in Mercury, only they never ſee him in oppoſition to the Sun, which is occaſioned by his never removing above...
7. Part 7’Tis certain moreover, that the Moon has no Air or Atmoſphere ſurrounding it as we have. For then we could never ſee the very outermoſt Rim of the Moon ſo exactly as we do, when...
8. Part 8That their Diſtance is ſo immenſe, that the Space between the Earth and Sun (which is no leſs than Twelve thouſand of the Earth’s Diameters) is almoſt nothing when compar’d to i...