 | Bernhardus Varenius - Geography - 1734 - 464 pages
...at a certain time of the Year, and that twice every Day for the Space of divers Weeks, yet no ways derogating from that miraculous returning of the Shadow upon the Dial of Abaz in the Days of King Hezekiab, Solution. CHAP. 34. efUniverfal Geography. 789 Solution. This Paradox... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1885 - 580 pages
...at a certain time of the year ; and that twice every day for the space of divers weeks; yet no ways derogating from that miraculous returning of the shadow upon the Dial of Ahaz, in the days of King Hezekiah. 13. There are divers places on the continent of Africa, and the islands of Sumatra and Borneo,... | |
 | Charles Adiel Lewis Totten - Bible - 1890 - 268 pages
...been led to see that the collateral fraction of an hour (40 minutes) required by the ' ' turning back of the shadow upon the Dial of Ahaz," in the days of Hezekiah, also forms an integral, and necessary, part of human Chronology, and must be restored to... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1901 - 432 pages
...certain time of the Year; and that twice every Day for the space of divers Weeks : Yet no ways derogating that miraculous returning of the Shadow upon the Dial of Ahaz, in the days of King Hezekiah. 13. There are divers places on the Continent of Africa, and the Islands of Sumatra and Borneo,... | |
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There is a considerable nuii.ber of places lying within the torrid zone, in any of which if a certain kind of sun-dial be duly erected, the shadow will go back several degrees upon the same, at a certain time of the year ; and that twice every day for... 