Astro-theology: or a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from a survey of the heavens. Illustrated with copper-plates / By W. Derham.

  • William Derham
Date:
MDCCXV
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Credit: Astro-theology: or a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from a survey of the heavens. Illustrated with copper-plates / By W. Derham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Author’s ObferVations. v| O f thefe Obfervations the Reader fhould have met with many more (and I believe fome of my ingenious Friends do expedt more) but that I lay under two inconveniences. One the want of an open free Horizon, my Habitation being furrounded much with Trees. The other, and indeed the chief, the want of a long . Pole, of i oo or more feet, to raile my long Glafs to fuch an height as to fee the Heavenly Bodies above the thick Vapours $ which much ob- (cure all Objedls near the Horizon, elpecially when viewed with long and good Glades. But as I have been at confiderable expences already about thefe matters, and this I am infor¬ med would amount to 80 or 90 L I thought it much too great a bur¬ then for the yearly income of my * Living. And therefore if I have not fuffi- ciently anfwered the expiations of \ : A 4 fbirj£
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