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          id: A29938
      author: Bryantson, John.
       title: The mutations of the seas: or, A manifest reason given for all the mutations observed in the seas And this by ways so natural, plain, and easie, that every man may understand the manner, and must conclude it to be so. By John Bryantson.
        date: 1683.0
       words: 13183
      flesch: 54
     summary: So it must be confest that the Moon by onely giving the Earth ( the containing vessel ) motion , may at the same time , and with as much ease move all the waters in the Indian , Atlantick , Paci●●tick , nd all other Seas , as by any other ways , or means that may or can be thought of , move all the water in any one of those Seas . And then you shall have this advantage into the bargain , that you shall not be to seek for a Principle ; for the Magnetick vertue or force of attraction upon solid Bodies has been long known ; And you cannot deny the Earth to be a Magnetick Globe , except you will deny that to be in the whole , which more or less is manifestly to be seen in almost every part , but most wonderfully in the Load-stone which is apart of the true Primary and integral substance of the Earth ▪ Now since there has alwayes been acknowledged to be a very great Affinity between the Moon and Earth , and likeness of parts , I think the Moon may reasonably enough be concluded to be so too ; And then these two great Magnates hanging in the thin Air , must easily admit of motion , so that I cannot see where the difficulty should be , or what should hinder but that the Moon may give the Earth , and the Earth the Moon ( if the Moon may be thought to have need of it ) motion .
    keywords: earth; earth motion; east; moon; motion; seas; shores; sun; tides; time; west
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        item: #2 of 4
          id: A39641
      author: Flamsteed, John, 1646-1719.
       title: A correct tide table, shewing the true time of the high-waters at London-Bridg, to every day in the year, 1683 by J. Flamsteed ...
        date: 1683.0
       words: 2682
      flesch: 63
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A39641) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 98255)
    keywords: tcp
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        item: #3 of 4
          id: A54673
      author: Philipot, Thomas, d. 1682.
       title: A phylosophical essay treating of the most probable cause of that grand mystery of nature, the flux & reflux, or flowing and ebbing of the sea
        date: 1673.0
       words: 4118
      flesch: 48
     summary: THere is a huge Variety of Opinions , that Entitle themselves to have unwound the cause of this Grand Mistery of Nature , The Flux and Reflux of the Sea ; But they are erected upon untenable Principles , and so entwin'd and Complicated , that I may say of them , as Florus did of the Mountainous Inhabitants of the Alpes , Pluris erat Invenire quam Vincere ; It is a greater Difficulty to trace out , and unravell them , than to Subvert , or Dismantle them . But the Irregularity of this Opinion will further appear by this Question , Why have not the Baltick , Euxine , and Caspian , Seas this Flux and Reflux of waters , by this Angelical Motion ; since they are as Capable of it , as other parts of the Ocean abroad , that daily Receive it ?
    keywords: cause; motion; opinion; reflux; sea; seas; tcp; text; tides
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        item: #4 of 4
          id: B03739
      author: Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.
       title: May it please the King's most excellent Majesty
        date: 1687.0
       words: 4448
      flesch: 44
     summary: The sole Principle upon which this Author proceeds to explain most of the great and surprising appearances of Nature , is no other than that of Gravity , whereby in the Earth all Bodies have a tendency towards its Center ; as is most evident : and from undoubted Arguments it s proved , that there is such a Gravitation towards the Centers of the Sun , Moon and all the Planets . As was said before , the same force decreasing after the same manner is evidently found in the Sun , Moon and all the Planets ; but more especially in the Sun , whose force is prodigious ; becoming sensible even in the immense distance of Saturn : This gives room to suspect that the force of Gravity is in the Celestial Globes proportional to the quantity of Matter in each of them : and the Sun being at least ten thousand times as bigg as the Earth , its Gravitation or attracting Force , is found to be at least ten thousand times as much as that of the Earth , acting on Bodies at the same distances .
    keywords: center; earth; force; moon; sea; sun; tides; water
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