An idea of the material universe, deduced from a survey of the solar system / [James Ferguson].

  • Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Date:
1754
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Credit: An idea of the material universe, deduced from a survey of the solar system / [James Ferguson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9 By an attentive Consideration of this Short Survey of the Solar Syftem, we may learn that the Planets with their Attendants are much of the fame Nature with our Earth, and deftined for the fame Purpofes : For they are folid and opaque Globes, capa¬ ble of fupporting Animals and Vegetables,, Some of them are greater, fome lefs, and feme much about the Size of the Earth, They all circulate round the Sun as the Earth does, in a Shorter or longer Time, according to their Diftanees • and have, where it would not be inconvenient, regu¬ lar Returns of Summer and Winter, Spring and Autumn : They have warmer and colder Climates, as the various Productions of our Earth require : And in Such as afford any Poffibility of difeovefing it, we perceive a regular Rotation round their Axes, like that of the Earth, making Day and Night alternately, which is neceffary for Labour, Reft, and Vegetation; and expofes all Parts of their Surfaces to-the Influence of the Sun’s Rays. Such of the Planets as being * furtheft from the Sun enjoy leaft of his, Light 2 i