Volume 4

Spectacle de la nature: or, nature display'd. Being discourses on such particulars of natural history as were thought most proper to excite the curiosity, and form the minds of youth ... / Translated by Mr. Humphreys.

  • Noël-Antoine Pluche
Date:
1740-53
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    [ 354] EXPLANATION FIGURES. Ï HE Fontifpiece reprefents Galileo making on the: Tower of St Mark, and in Prefence of feveral V- netian Noblemen, a Trial of the Telefcopes he had con. ftrué&ted upon the Recital of the Effe@s of the Spying- giafs newly invented im Holland. See il Teatro d’ Huomini bib ae Aït. of Gal. and ‘Dialogue VI. of Part 2. of” his Vol. : . | RAGE: Sans The CREPUSCLE. The inner Circle reprefents the Globe of the Earth. The outward reprefents the thicker Air, or the lower Region of the Atmofphere, which encompafies the Earth immediately. 4 fs The Space contained between the two Circles may be called the Atmofphere, which probably is the inferior Part of a Vortex of Æther, or of very fluid and very extenfive Matter, in which the Earth is carried away, The Vortex of the Moon revolves towards the Extre-- mities of ours, and both, very likely, are preffed fome- times-more, fometimes lefs, by.the Spheres of the neigh- bouring