A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences : comprehending all the branches of useful knowledge, with accurate descriptions as well of the various machines, instruments, tools, figures, and schemes necessary for illustrating them, as of the classes, kinds, preparations, and uses of natural productions, whether animals, vegetables, minerals, fossils, or fluids : together with the kingdoms, provinces, cities, towns, and other remarkable places throughout the world : illustrated with above three hundred copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Jefferys, geographer to His Majesty : the whole extracted from the best authors in all languages (1763)
Society of Arts (Great Britain). Society of Gentlemen, Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771, Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, Wale, Samuel, d. 1786, Owen, W. (William), d. 1793 · London : Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-Street · leaf 861
thingbelonging to Copernicus. Hence, Copernican-system, or Hypothesis,that fyftem of the world, wherein the funis fuppofed at reft in the center, and theplanets, with the earth, to move in ellip- 1fes round him. The fun and ftars are here fuppofed atreft, and that diurnal motion which theyappear to… … ./,■///■ !V, .<■/// COP [ 75 Thi:s fyftem was received of old by Phi-lolams,Ariftarchus, andPythagoras, fromv/lii(ch laft it had the name of the pytha-goriic fyftem : it was alfo held by Archi-medes ; hut after him it became negleft-ei), and even forgotten for many ages,till it was revived by…
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