CHAP. II.Of the Bulk of the Terraqueous Globe.
Of the Bulk of the Terraqueous Globe.
The next Thing remarkable in the Terraqueous Globe, is the prodigious Bulk thereof[a]. A Mass of above 260 Thousand Million of Miles solid Content. A Work too grand for any thing less than a God to make. To which in the next Place we may add,
FOOTNOTES:[a]It is not difficult to make a pretty near Computation of the Bulk of the Terraqueous Globe, from those accurate Observations of a Degree made by Mr.NorwoodinEngland, and Mr.Picart, and Mr.CassiniinFrance. Whose Measures do in a surprizing manner agree. But Mr.Cassini’s seeming to be the most accurate (as I have shewn in myAstro-Theology,B. 1. Ch. 2. Note (a).) I have there made use of his Determinations. According to which the Diameter of the Earth being 7967,72EnglishMiles, its Ambit will be 25031½ Miles; and (supposing it to be Spherical) its Surface will be 199444220 Miles; which being multiplied into ⅓ of its Semidiameter, gives the Solid Content,viz.264856000000 Miles.
[a]It is not difficult to make a pretty near Computation of the Bulk of the Terraqueous Globe, from those accurate Observations of a Degree made by Mr.NorwoodinEngland, and Mr.Picart, and Mr.CassiniinFrance. Whose Measures do in a surprizing manner agree. But Mr.Cassini’s seeming to be the most accurate (as I have shewn in myAstro-Theology,B. 1. Ch. 2. Note (a).) I have there made use of his Determinations. According to which the Diameter of the Earth being 7967,72EnglishMiles, its Ambit will be 25031½ Miles; and (supposing it to be Spherical) its Surface will be 199444220 Miles; which being multiplied into ⅓ of its Semidiameter, gives the Solid Content,viz.264856000000 Miles.
[a]It is not difficult to make a pretty near Computation of the Bulk of the Terraqueous Globe, from those accurate Observations of a Degree made by Mr.NorwoodinEngland, and Mr.Picart, and Mr.CassiniinFrance. Whose Measures do in a surprizing manner agree. But Mr.Cassini’s seeming to be the most accurate (as I have shewn in myAstro-Theology,B. 1. Ch. 2. Note (a).) I have there made use of his Determinations. According to which the Diameter of the Earth being 7967,72EnglishMiles, its Ambit will be 25031½ Miles; and (supposing it to be Spherical) its Surface will be 199444220 Miles; which being multiplied into ⅓ of its Semidiameter, gives the Solid Content,viz.264856000000 Miles.