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Io. Friderici Weidleri Historia Astronomiae, sive De ortu et progressu astronomiae liber singularis / auctor: Ioannes Fridericus Weidlerus
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tnatica explicatius traditur £r facilius demonstratur, addita Come-tograpbia Halleii cum commentario. Cantabrigiae 1710. 8- Idemcomposuit afironomicalprincipies of religiosi natural and revealed,in nine parts. Londini 1717. 8- capita libri titulus prae se fert se-quentia.

1. Lemmata, or,the knoten lates of matter and motion.

2. A particular account oftbesysteme of the universe.

3. The trutb of that system briefiy demonstrated.

4. Certain observations drawn from that system.

5. Probable conjectures of the nature and ufes of tbefeveral coelesti •al bodies , contained in the fame system.

6 . Important principies of natur al religion demonstrated from the- foregoing observations.

7. Important principies of diuine reuelation, confirmd from the fore-going conje&ures.

8 . Such inserene es f beten to be the cotnmon Voice of nature and rea-fon from tbe teflimonies of the most constderable perfons in ali

ages.

9. A recapitulation of the tohole , teith a large and ferious addrejfto all , fpecially to the fceptiks and unbelievers of our age , to-getber reitb a preface of the temper of mind necejfary for tbe di-fcovery of divine trutb ; and ofthe degree of evidence , that oughtto be expeEled in divine matter s.

Adstruit pluribus systema terrae tnotae; planetas habitatos es-se, cometas in planetis diluuia & conflagrationes producere ex-istimat. systematis mundi contemplatione ostendit, mundum nonab aeterno fuisse, sed a Deo conditum, nec perpetuo duraturumesse. Ita hominem ad cognitionem attributorum Dei manuducir,utinteliigatjin scriptura sacra Deo eadem attributa, quae ratio reperit,adseribi: addit his, quod chronologia ftcra non modo testiironiisprofanorum scriptorum, sed & methodis, quas ad aetatem mun-di indagandam philosophia suppeditat, consentanea sit. Hic sub-

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