[90]For these Observations see Gassendus’s Natural Philosophy. De Chales’s Navigator. And Astro-Meteoro-Logica, per J. Goad.
[91]See Maclaurin’s Newton, Page 376.
[92]Air at a Medium is 800 Times rarer than Water: so that if 800 Times the Quantity of Air naturally contained in a Vessel whose Dimensions are those of a cubic Foot, were pressed into it by a Syringe or Condenser, the Air woud differ nothing from Water in Density.
[93] See Wilson on Climate, Chap. 15. Pages 46, 54.
[94] 55.
[95] By reducing 10 Feet 6 Inches, and 6 Feet 7 Inches, into Inches, and dividing by common Divisors, as 3 and 2; it is found that 10 Feet 6 Inches, will be to 6 Feet 7 Inches, as 3 to 2 nearly: that is, as 15 Miles to 10 Miles.
[96]White’s Ephèmeris, Page 38, for the Speculum Phenomenorum, or Mirror of the Heavens.
[97]See the Book which gives an Account of Walker’s Eidouranion.
The intelligent Reader will easily distinguish the Effects, attributed to the Planets, viz. their mutual Attractions, owing to natural Causes only;—from the futile Ravings of judicial Astrology.
[98]See London Chronicle, 26th July, 1785.