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Identifier: bibleastronomyor00melc (find matches)
Title: Bible astronomy; or, The little book on the mysteries and wonder of the rise and fall of Babylon
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Melcher, Josiah F. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bible Astronomy Astronomy in the Bible
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo., Printed at the St. Louis intelligencer buildings
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e Earths parallel; while oa theimmense seas one side will rise and the other fall, thereby giving a greatspring to the tides. For illustration, let 0. C. represent the places of compression caused bydirect attraction of the inner world W. marked D. D. D. D. and E. E. theplaces of elevation caused by the diminishing of the attraction coming onan angle marked M. M., and K. the true circle of the outer world, and W.the inner world. Now, it would follow that the tides would rise where theattraction was the greatest, causing the Earth to spring and the tides torise at A. A. The places of compression which changes rapidly from therotation of the outer world east in the direction of the parallel dart oncein twenty-four hours; while the inner world W. is retained in the apparentwestern motion, always in the same position as to the Moons place in theheavens; thereby causing it to pass around the Earths centre every twen-ty-four hours forty-five minutes, whcich causes the tides and their varia?
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  • bookdecade:1850
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Melcher__Josiah_F___from_old_catalog_
  • booksubject:Bible
  • booksubject:Astronomy
  • booksubject:Astronomy_in_the_Bible
  • bookpublisher:St__Louis__Mo___Printed_at_the_St__Louis_intelligencer_buildings
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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  • bookleafnumber:82
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