Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. William Whiston: Containing, Memoirs of Several of His Friends Also. Written by Himself

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The Works of Flavius Josephus...: With Three Dissertations, Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God's Command to Abraham, Etc. and Explanatory Notes and Observations

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Excerpt from Historical Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Samuel Clarke: Being a Supplement to Dr. Sykes's and Bishop Hoadley's Accounts; Including Certain Memoirs of Several of Dr. Clarke's Friends About the Year 16 97, while I was Chap lain to Dr. Fifaleia Moor, then Bifhop of Nor wick, I met 'at one of the Coii'ee-houfes in the market-(place of Norwiela, a young Man, to me then wholly unknown, his Name was Clarke, Pupil to that eminent and careful Tutor, Mr. Ellis, of Gorw'l and Caias College in Cambridge. L'vir. Clarke knew me Io far at the Univerfity, I being about eight Years elder than himlelf, and fo far knew the Nature andsuccefs of my Studies as to enter into a Converfation with me, about that Syfiem of Carrie/la Philofophy, his Tutor had put him to tran flate, I mean Releaall'sfpbjfickr; and to ask my Opinion about the Pitnefs of fuch a Tranfiation. I wellremember the Anfwer I made him; that Since the Youth of the Univerfity mull have, at prefent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1737 edition. Excerpt: ... vens, or the fame six'd Stars; and its continual Parallelism to itself; all the apparent Revolution of the Sun must depend on the annual Motion; and A Day and a Tear be all one. This is evident, because, as a Tear is truly that Space in which the Sun seemingly, and the Earth really performs a single Revolution round the Ediptick; so a Day is truly that Space in which the Sun passes, or appears to pass from any certain Semi-Meridian to the fame again once: which Spaces of Time are here the very fame, and so the Apellations themselves Tear and Day, may indifferently and promiscuously be apply'd thereto. (2.) The Course of the Sun and Planets, (for the fix'd Stars were then Fix'd indeed; having neither a real nor seeming Motion) must be contrary to what it has appear'd since: their Rising being then in the Weft, and their Setting in the East; which, from the way of their present diurnal Rotation, has since, as all know, been quite different. (3.) There must be a perpetual Equinox, or Equality of Day and Night, through the whole Planet; by reason of the Sun's describing each Revolution a great Circle about the same, on which alone such an Equality depends. (4.) The Ecliptick must supply the Place of an Equator also; and the torrid, temperate, and frigid Zones be almost alike dispos'd with regard to that Circle, as with us they are with regard to the real Equator. (5.) To such as liv'd under or near the said Ecliptick, the Poles of the World or Ecliptick, the only ones then in Being, would be at or near the Horizon; and so not considerably elevated or depress'd to the Inhabitants there. But upon the commencing of a quicker diurnal Rotation, the same way with the annual, the Case would be in all these Particulars quite different. For, (i.) By...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1749 Excerpt: ...reprinted, and made The Second Appendix to my Historical Preface, when it was become the real Preface to my first Volume, which was published a little before the End oPtbat Year, thither I refer the Reader. N. B. I also read about a Year other publick Lectures, after those before-mentioned, and before my Banishment from the University: Which contained an Account of all the ancient Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, that have been preserved to us, io the very-Words of the original Historians. A Copy of whjch Lectures was reposited in the Archives of that University. Which Lectures were afterward printed, and ought to be added at the End of some of the fore-mentioned Astronomical, or Physico Mathematical Lectures. The Reader is also to observe, that I intended the Copernious, an Astronomical Instrument by me then first invented, and afterwards published, for the Examination of all those, and indeed of all the ancient Eclipses, that could possibly be seen in any Parts of the World, of which we have any ancieHt Histories preferv'd, and this with much greater Ease, tho' not with quite the Exactness, than formerly by the usual tedious Calculations; that so no Historians or Chonologers might ever be at a Loss hereafter, for the Circumstances of such Eclipses as are mentioned by any ancient Author whomsoN 3' ever. ever. Accordingly I calculated by it the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon for four several Periods of Eclipses,/, e. for four i8y. nd. yh. 43m. atthe Distance each from other of 800 years, i, e. for 418 to 400 Years before; and 400 to 418, and for 1200 to 1218 years after the Christian Æra: Besides those in my own Time from 1700 to 1718. A Table of which Eclipses, 250 in Number, I have now by me not yet published; but which ought to be added to the future Add...

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. William Whiston Volume 1; Containing, Memoirs of Several of His Friends Also

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Enhance the effectiveness of your scripture study---make the Bible come alive with the sights and sounds of first-century Palestine as recorded by famed historian Josephus. You'll change the way you relate to the stories and figures in the New Testament as you meet John the Baptist, Pontius Pilate, the Sanhedrin and, most importantly, Jesus himself in an entirely new context. A comprehensive look at Jewish history from the Creation through the First Jewish-Roman War, this book belongs right next to the Bible on every serious student or scholar's shelf.

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