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Elements of Useful Knowledge (Volume 1); Volume 1. Containing a Historical and Geographical Account of the United States - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1806. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... summer and winter, heat and cold, light and darkness, with the interchanges of rain and fair weather. So exact are the motions of the planets, the earth and the moon, that their pofitions and eclipses may be calculated to a point; of space and a moment of time, for thousands of years pall or to come. All is order, harmony, beauty and grandeur; manifesting the infinite wisdom, power and goodness, of the glorious Creator. SECTION II. Geographt. Definition. THE word geography is used to fignify a descrlp* tion of the terrestial globe, comprehending its divifions, the formation of its surface, its distributions into land and water, mountains, lakes, rivers, foil and productions, and an account of its inhabitants. A description of any particular country or place is called topography. Of the hstory of this Science. At what time the science of geography began to be studied, is uncertain. The nations which first cultivated the science of astronomy, were the Babylonians, Egyptians and Chinese i and a knowledge of astronomy is essential to a correct understanding of geography. Hiltory informs us that Thales of Miletus first ascertained the course of the sun within the tropics j he divided the year into three hundred and fixty five days, and calculated eclipses. This man lived in the fixth century before the Christian era. But there is strong evidence to induce our belief, that he and other early Greek astronomers, derived their first knowledge from the Egyptians, and these from the Chaldeans, among whom the science was studied, at a very early period. Their knowlege of astronomy, which gave their learned men the name of Magi, wife men, afterwards degenerated into astrology, or the art of consulting the pofition of the stars to foretei events --and hence sprung th...
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