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The divine history of the genesis of the world explicated and illustrated ... / [Anon].

  • Gott, Samuel, 1613-1671.
Date:
1670
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The divine history of the genesis of the world explicated and illustrated ... / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    > rz we not Gtavitate it: and yet if it were Matter Inipregnating the Water, or Penetrating rhe fuppofed Pores of any Diaphanous Bo- netrstion of Pores by Emanant Light; which certeinly is not a Body, becauf though it be not Mitt with it, yet ic Penetrateth the very Diaphanous Body itfelf per omnia Pantie , for turn an Equa- - ly Diaphanous Globule againft the Light which way you pleaf, ic will be Equaly as Diaphanous one way as another ; which could not be ifthe Rays did pafsonly through Pores, as fome fuppofe ; unles we fhould alfo fnppofe it to be all Pores, and confequently no fuch Globulows Body. Alfo this is moft apparently} contrary to all the Laws of Refra@tion, which are slways in Dire& Lines from one Point to another within the Diaphanous Body itfelf, and by moft Regular ‘Inflections , as 1 thall thew heerafter, and noe through any fuch Porous eMeanders and Diverticles: and indeed Diaphanous Bodys, as Athericfelf, through whichthe Sun doth Eradiate , are of all others leaft Porous 5 and ifthe Light did only being therefore Diaphanous, it muft Penetrare through the very Bo- dily Matter therof, which no Body can do, or through other Pores of that Porous. Matter, and fo Infinitely, as I have thewed , or chrongh Interfperfed Vacuitys, which is as Impoffible as the other ; aud if it were Poffible, yet it fhould be no Diaphaneity, but only. a plain Phaneity 3 as when we look through a Sive, or Silk, we do not therefore fay that the Sive or Silk is Diaphanous, as the Air; and the Air could not be fo Totaly Diaphanousas itis, unles it were a Diaphanous Body throughout inthe whole, and not only in the Porestherof. And as feveral Specifical Qualitys may bein che fame Place per omnia, as Heat, and Light, fo alfofeveral Indivi- dual Lights Emanant, which mutt neceffarily D'ffer Individualy; becauf they Subfift in feveral Lights Inherenr, to which they be- long, atid to their feveral Lucid Bodys, and which doth alfoappear by the feveral Shadows that they caft, whitch being feveral Priva- tives, do evidently prove the Pofitives to be fevera!l. So if the fower Walls of a Room be painted with fower feveral Colors, Black, White, Blew, and Yellow, though the Rays of Light Re- flected from them Penetrate one another pir omnia, becauf they fill the whole Room, whereby the feveral Colers may be feen in every Point therof, yer we fee them cigs and Diftinét, and Mitt 2 Mitt