Spectacle de la Nature PDF
By:Noël Antoine Pluche
Published on 2013-09 by Theclassics.Us
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1763 edition. Excerpt: ... vast Resemblance between God and Man, when we descend to the small inconsiderable Works with which he most commonly busies himself? Is he not disgraced by Trades that require no Force nor Industry, such as Spinning and Sewing? One half of Mankind is contented with these despicable Operations. The Art of Spinning, far from deserving this Insult, is perhaps of greater Value than the Occupations of t'ie Philosophers that pass this Judgment. Here they may be beaten with their own Weapon. They all of them extol in their Metaphysics such Causes as produce very.great Effects with little Apparatus. Thus they think it proper, by one single Law of Motion, which they ca'l very simple without understanding it, to produce both Man and the Mushroom, the Structure and Propagation of which they are still less acquainted with: That is indeed producing a great deal at av.ry small Expence. Let us noiv apply their exquisite Rule to that Art which is the Object of their disdain. Two. or three Fingers pinch the last Threads of a Pack of Wool, Silk, or Cotton, of a sew Flocks of Wool, or of some sine Rinds of Trees hanging, up at the end of a Reed. The fame Fingers, aster havingtwisted and thickened these Threads into one, tie the End of it to a slight Piece of Wood, at the lowest Fart whereof they six a small Circle of baked Clay that will be removed when the Spindle is grown somewhat heavier by being charged with a greater Mass of Thread. That Wood being rolled gently between the Fingers of the right Hand, communicates the lame Turn to the Thread that sticks to. it, and disposes the Twists that are still separate to apply to one another, from the Necessity of turning all the fame Way. The Extremities of the Twists that come next prove to be perpetually...
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