Philosophical dissertations, with proper reflections : proving I. The non-eternity of matter and that there is a vacuum. II. That there must necessarily be one self-existent being in three self-existent properties ... III. That the light and heat of the sun ... are purely spiritous ... IV. That the soul is immortal / By Benjamin Parker.

  • Parker, Benjamin, -1747.
Date:
1738
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Credit: Philosophical dissertations, with proper reflections : proving I. The non-eternity of matter and that there is a vacuum. II. That there must necessarily be one self-existent being in three self-existent properties ... III. That the light and heat of the sun ... are purely spiritous ... IV. That the soul is immortal / By Benjamin Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    An d as ic is placed in the Center of our Syf- tem, and muft, as above obi'erv’d, have all ma¬ terial Particles, which are fent off frond its Bo¬ dy, by its continual Flames, return’d to it ar gain as their proper Center^ I think we may infer, that the Sun may be Created and Confti- tuted by the infinitely Wife, and Powerful con¬ triver of the whole material and immaterial Creation, that notwithftanding its continual Flames, it may fuffer no Diminution nor irre¬ coverable Change * but this I leave to more cu* rious Enquirers* And Attra&ion, and their Tributes of Gravitation, above obftrv’d. The Light and Heat therefore of the central Luminary in¬ terfere not with the Motions of its concomitant. Planets, but are fpirituous and immaterial out of its own Atmofphere; and that its Atmofphere does not reach to any of the Globes or Planets, which are warm'd and enlighted by it, will appear from its flays not being Luminous and Vifible where they are diftant from their own Atmofphere, and not incorporated with the At- mofpheres of the Globes they warm and enlighten. For fhou’d we fuppofe the Atmofphere of the Sun to reach thro’ the planetary Syftemamongll all the Globes it warms and enlightens, then wou’d the material Particles of its AtmoPphere be Luminous and Vifible of themfelyes throughout the whole Syftem; fo that all the planetary Bodies thereof wou’d be con¬ tinually enlighten’d, and no Darknefs cou’d approach any parts of their Surfaces whether irx the prefence of the Sun’s Body a- hove, or Abfence below their Horizons, but wou ld give a furr founding Illumination when below the Horizon of any Globe, beyond the Circumference of its Shadow. From hence it appears that the Sun's Atmofphere is only a furrounding Circumference of its vifible Luftre, which Atmof¬ phere terminates with its Yillbility ; and returns all material Particles aud Effluvia to its ovyn body, as properly belonging to it as their Center. So then the Light and Heat emitted from the Sun into the planetary Syftem, tho’ only of a Spirituous Influence muft be progreffive, and take up fame Time to come frpm its Body and Atmofphere