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The principia; or, the first principles of natural things, being new attempts toward a philosophical explanation of the elementary world / By Emanuel Swedenborg ... Translated from the Latin by the Rev. Augustus Clissold.

  • Emmanuel Swedenborg
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1845-1846
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Credit: The principia; or, the first principles of natural things, being new attempts toward a philosophical explanation of the elementary world / By Emanuel Swedenborg ... Translated from the Latin by the Rev. Augustus Clissold. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I. A general Table of Declinations at Sea, taken from nautical ob¬ servations made by Portuguese, English, and Dutch mathema¬ ticians^ as well as by others, members of the Society of Jesus. From Athanasius Kircher,^ for the years 1500 to 1600. Declination. East. Latitude. North. Deg. Min. Deg. Min. From theRock of Lisbon, 50leagues towardsN.W. 6 5 39 10 As given by others. | 0 0 39 39 10 10 From Lisbon to the Cape Verd Islands. 8 30 39 10 From Cape St. Vincent three or four leagues towards W. 5 38 39 10 From St. Mary, one of the Azores, 9 leagues O.S. 2 20 39 10 At Fayal, and thence to Terceira. 3 45 39 45 From Terceira towards Lisbon . 7 30 39 45 From the Island of Flores towards the west 40 leagues . 8 30 39 10 And from Cape Blanco 300 leagues . 4 0 39 10 From the Island of Flores towards the east 70 or 80 leagues. 0 0 39 10 From the same island towards W. 30 leagues .. 0 0 39 10 In passing the meridian of the Islands of Flores West. and Corvo . 1 0 39 10 From the Island of Flores 100 or 200 leagues f 2 0 39 10 towards the west. 1 1 0 39 10 In sight of the Island of Flores S.O. 5 37 39 10 From the Island of Flores, W. 230 leagues .... 3 30 39 19 Near Pico. 1 30 39 19 From the Canaries 20 leagues. 1 0 19 0 At the Canaries. J 5 Bast. 37 32 0 From the Great Canary Island towards the north 4 37 32 0 From the Islands of Seluages [?] . 5 37 31 0 At the S.W. side of the Great Canary Island .. 5 20 28 0 From the Canary Islands 230 leagues . 0 0 20 0 From observations taken while coming from the West Indies, shortly before reaching the Canaries... 0 0 33 0 * Magnes: sive de Arte Magnetic(l, p. 387, seqq.
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