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DEFENCE

OF THE

DIVINE SYSTEM,

OF THE

WORLD;

WHICH REPRESENTS THE EARTH AS BEING AT REST,

AND THE

HEAVENLY BODIES IN MOTION ABOUT IT :

WITH A

DEMONSTRATION

OF THE FALLACY OF THE

SOLAR SYSTEM,

INVENTED BY PYTHAGORAS, REVIVED BY COPERNICUS, AND
ESTABLISHED BY SIR ISAAC NEWTON.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A REPLY TO AN ANONYMOUS CRITIC.

BY BARTHOLOMEW PRESCOT,

OF ETRURIA, NEAR NEWCASTLE UNDER LINE.

God hath given me certain knowledge of the things that are, namely, to know how the world
was made, and the operation of the elements: the beginning, ending, and midst of
the times: the alterations of the turning of the fun, and the change of
the circuits of years, and the pofition of stars.

feafons:

WISDOM OF SOLOMON, CHAP. vii.

LIVERPOOL:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY J. LANG, 13, FENWICK STREET;

AND SOLD BY

THE BOOKSELLERS OF LIVERPOOL:

ALSO BY W, BUTTON, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON,

THE READER IS REQUESTed to make the
FOLLOWING CORRECTIONS BEFORE

PERUSING THE BOOK.

Page. Line.

Preface. iv. 39 for geometry and the mathematics, read, geo

metry and other branches of the mathe
matics

little, read, but little

the mutations, read, the present mutations
ought, read, aught

modern, read, moderns

on the earth, read, of the earth
that, dele

motion, read, notion

parallel, read, parallax
degrees, read, seconds
degrees, read, seconds

heighth, read, height
at, read, of

is, read, to be

thousand that, read, thousand times that

assured, read, assures

intented, read, intended

earthly, read, earthy

16 after inlet, put, ?

10

27

for distancies, read, distances
amount, read, account
orbits, read, orbit

17 after thereof, put, ?"
for defuse, read, diffuse
be, read, lie

4

7

28

ingenious, read, ingenuous 6 after founded, put, ?

50 29

51

54

26 for equinoxial, read, equinoctial
therefore an observer elevated that distance,
read, and an observer elevated 500 yards
elements, read, element

1218

abreviation, read, abridgment

the solar light, read, the refraction of the

solar light

places, read, place

exists, read, exist

58 27

half inch, dele

62 10

BXZ, read, VDZ

66 11

76 last

80

compliment, read, complement

overthrow, read, overflow

12 observed, read, absurd