A treatise on the sublime science of heliography, satisfactorily demonstrating our great orb of light, the sun, to be absolutely no other than a body of ice! Overturning all the received systems of the universe hitherto extant, proving the celebrated and indefatigable Sir Isaac Newton, in his theory of the solar system, to be as far distant from the truth, as any of the heathen authors of Greece or Rome / By Charles Palmer, Gent.

  • Palmer, Charles (Accountant)
Date:
1798
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Credit: A treatise on the sublime science of heliography, satisfactorily demonstrating our great orb of light, the sun, to be absolutely no other than a body of ice! Overturning all the received systems of the universe hitherto extant, proving the celebrated and indefatigable Sir Isaac Newton, in his theory of the solar system, to be as far distant from the truth, as any of the heathen authors of Greece or Rome / By Charles Palmer, Gent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Though this may be said to be an age of reason, in which Deism is propagated with lueiferian malignity, by the disciples of disaffected ignorance, who deny all order and subordination, yet it is to be hoped that there are multitudes of individuals who willingly consult their own happiness, jn paying attention to every medium by which valuable knowledge may be acquired, that ultimately must tend to a sanction of their laudable pursuits. Let study and application be ever so in¬ tensely followed, yet the operations of the Deity in carrying on the orderly works of creation in their natural routine are such, that the mode and the means are impenetrable to our senses—-as the great powers of nature are all invisible. Gravitation, electricity, and magnetism, though constantly present, and continually ex¬ erting their influence; though within us, near us, and