Matho; Or, The Cosmotheoria Puerilis ...A. Millar, 1765 - Cosmology |
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Page 301 - P. Come, tell me, Who teaches the young of all animals, without exception, firft to make ufe of their limbs, and move their bodies ? As we obferved before, this. is a fecret to all the philofophers on earth, how fpontaneous motion is performed.
Page 118 - We all knew from our school-boy days that, at the poles of the earth there is but one day and one night in the year ; but, when brought face to face with the reality, it is hard to realize.
Page 103 - I fay, the earth hath got between the fun and theft flarst they become obfervable in the night time, as not being intercepted from our fight by the fun's rays. And in this manner they appear during the whole winter ; only they feem to get more wefterly every night, as the earth moves gradually by them to the eaft. M. This I eafily conceive : for the...