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(54) And there mine eyes saw how they made these their instruments, iron chains of immeasurable weight.

(4) Some b Naturalists or Artists have undertaken to measure that Height and Distance, and have produced many strange and monstrous Devices. Indeed, before this my Knowledge and Revelation of God, I held that only to be the true Heaven, which in a round Circumference and Sphere, very Azure of a light blue Colour, extends itself above the Stars, supposing that God had therein his peculiar Being, and did rule only in the Power of his holy Spirit in this World. [Physici. Studiers of Natural Philosophy, called Physics; or the Mathematicians.]

(6) 'And as, my dear, by one pair of nail-scissors all that is made of iron (kârshnâyasam) is known, the difference being only a name, arising from speech, but the truth being that all is iron,--thus, my dear, is that instruction.'

(12) But its Height or Distance cannot be exactly known. But I am fully persuaded that it is in the Midst, in the Deep between Jupiter and the general Sphere of the fixed Stars or Constellations, for it is the Heart of the Corporeity in Nature.