Micrographia eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 539 pages of information about Micrographia.

Micrographia eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 539 pages of information about Micrographia.

Of the multitudes of Stars discoverable by the Telescope_, and the variety of their magnitudes:  78.  Stars distinguisht in the Pleiades:  that there are degrees of bigness even in the Stars accounted of the same magnitude:  the longer the Glasses are, and the bigger apertures they will indure, the more fit they are for these discoveries:  that ’tis probable, longer Glasses would yet make greater discoveries. 5.  Stars discover’d in the Galaxie of Orion’s Sword._

Observ. 60.  Of the Moon.

A description of a Vale in the Moon; what call’d by Hevelius_ and Ricciolus, and how describ’d by them:  with what substances the hills of the Moon may be cover’d.  A description of the pits of the Moon, and a conjecture at their cause:  two Experiments that make it probable, that of the surface of boyl’d Alabaster dust seeming the most likely to be resembled by eruptions of vapours out of the body of the Moon:  that Earthquakes seem to be generated much the same way, and their effects seem very similar.  An Argument that there may be such variations in the Moon, because greater have been observ’d in the Sun:  because substance of the Moon and Earth seem much alike:  and because ’tis probable the Moon has a gravitating principle:  this is argued from several particulars.  The reason why several pits are one within another.  The use that may be made of this Instance of a gravity in the Moon._

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[1] Schem. 2. Fig. 1.

[2] Diop. ch. 10.  Sec 9.

[3] Schem. 2. Fig. 2.

[4] Schem. 1.* Fig. 3.

[5] Schem. 3. Fig. 1.

[6] Schem. 3. Fig. 2.

[7] Schem. 4.

[8] Schem. 4. Fig. 1.

[9] Schem. 6. Fig. 3.

[10] Schem. 6. Fig. 3.

[11] Schem. 8. Fig. 1.

[12] Schem. 8. Fig. 2.

[13] Schem. 9. Fig. 1.

    [14] See Schem. 11. Fig. 2.

[15] Fig. 1. Schem. 36.

[16] Fig. 3.

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