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.

  • Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735.
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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    ..... .-.: ----- • 1 -■ ■•-!.. 1 ■ Englifh Miles (]) : all of them Spa*- ces fo accurately laid out, and Di- fiances fo duly proportioned to their Revolutions about the Sun, that abundantly manifeft infinite Wifdom to have been concerned in their Ap¬ pointment, as I intend to Ihew in proper Place. But now after this Account df this fo prodigious a Space as that of our Solar Syftem is, what is it to the nearly infinite Expanfum occupied by the reft of the Heavenly Bodies ! Of which we may have a faint Adum¬ bration by confidering the Piftances which, with the greateft Probability ©f Obfervation and Reafon, are affigned to the Fixt Stars. In order ) Thefe Numbers are deduced from the Diftance between the Sun and Earth, affigned in the preceeding Note, and Sir lfaac Newtons Ciftances of the Planets from the Sun compu¬ ted from their Periods in his Principia, L. Pheenom. 4. Q | %Q