Letters, philosophical and astronomical, in which the following operations of nature and treated of and explained, in the most simple and natural Manner, According to Sir Isaac Newton's Opinions, (viz.) the creation; the deluge; Vegetation; the Make and Form of this terraqueous Globe;-Its Motions explained and accounted for. Together with the exact number of days, Years, and Lunations, since the creation. Proved by the New, Full Moons, Equinoxes, and Eclipses. To which is added, a solar and lunar diagram for A.D. 1786, In which the Place of the Sun, Earth, Moon and her Nodes, are pointed out every Day in the Year, and every Day of the Week.

  • Penrose, Francis, 1718-1798.
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M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]
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Plymouth : printed and sold by M. Haydon and Son, Printers, Booksellers, and Stationers to his Royal Highness Prince William Henry: sold also by R. Trewman, Printer, Exeter; B. Law, R. Faulder, and W. Lowndes, Booksellers, London; Messrs. Prince and Cooke, Oxford; and W. Lunn, Cambridge, M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]

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