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... bright stars , as he considered them , which were invisible to the naked eye . The next night he noticed that those stars had changed their relative positions . Aston- ished and perplexed , he waited three days for a fair night in which ...
... bright stars , as he considered them , which were invisible to the naked eye . The next night he noticed that those stars had changed their relative positions . Aston- ished and perplexed , he waited three days for a fair night in which ...
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... bright star happens to be directly overhead , it can be seen with the naked eye even at midday . In this way it is said a celebrated optician was first led to think of there being stars by day as well as by night . One half of the ...
... bright star happens to be directly overhead , it can be seen with the naked eye even at midday . In this way it is said a celebrated optician was first led to think of there being stars by day as well as by night . One half of the ...
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... Bright ridges or streaks appear , which constitute the most brilliant por- tions of the sun . These are called fa- culce . They vary from barely discern- ible , softly - gleaming tracts 1,000 miles long , to lofty , piled - up ...
... Bright ridges or streaks appear , which constitute the most brilliant por- tions of the sun . These are called fa- culce . They vary from barely discern- ible , softly - gleaming tracts 1,000 miles long , to lofty , piled - up ...
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... bright as its centre . KIRCHHOFF'S THEORY . - This view differs essentially from that of Wilson . It considers the sun as an intensely white - hot solid or fluid body surrounded by a dense atmosphere of flame , filled with sub- stances ...
... bright as its centre . KIRCHHOFF'S THEORY . - This view differs essentially from that of Wilson . It considers the sun as an intensely white - hot solid or fluid body surrounded by a dense atmosphere of flame , filled with sub- stances ...
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... bright sparkling star , near the western horizon . Its elevation increases evening by evening , but never exceeds 30 ° . * If we watch it closely , we shall find that it again ap- * This distance varies much , owing to the eccentricity ...
... bright sparkling star , near the western horizon . Its elevation increases evening by evening , but never exceeds 30 ° . * If we watch it closely , we shall find that it again ap- * This distance varies much , owing to the eccentricity ...
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ancients Andromeda angle aphelion appearance Aries astronomer atmosphere axis beautiful Boötes bright brilliant Canis Minor Capricornus Cassiopeia celestial centre Cepheus circle color comet constellation Cor Caroli dark density Describe diameter disk double stars earth east ecliptic equal equator equinoctial figure fixed stars globe heat heavens Hercules Herschel horizon inferior inferior conjunction inferior planet Jupiter latitude length light longitude luminous lunar Lyra Mars mean distance measured Mercury meridian meteors miles moon moon's motion move Mythological naked eye named nebula Neptune night node north pole orbit Orion pass path perihelion Perseus Pisces planet Polaris rays revolve ring Saturn seasons seen shine sidereal sidereal day Sirius small stars solar day solar system solstice space sphere spots summer sun's surface synodic revolution tail tance Taurus telescope theory tion triangle Uranus Ursa Major Ursa Minor vary velocity Venus vernal equinox visible winter zodiac
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Page 6 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 129 - ... while the Earth remaineth seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 251 - Back comes the Chief in triumph. Who, in the hour of fight, Hath seen the Great Twin Brethren In harness on his right. Safe comes the ship to haven, Through billows and through gales, If once the Great Twin Brethren Sit shining on the sails.
Page 289 - A solar day is the interval between two successive passages of the sun across the meridian of any place.
Page 192 - We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.
Page 29 - If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it. The die is cast, the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
Page 251 - Orion is represented under the figure of a hunter assaulting Taurus. He has a sword in his belt, a club in his right hand, and the skin of a lion in his left.
Page 31 - Nature, such as the seven metals, &,c., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven. Moreover, the satellites are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can exercise no influence over the earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist.
Page 119 - ... of September. On this day it slowly sweeps around the sky, with its face half hidden below the icy sea. It still continues to descend ; and, after it has entirely disappeared, it is still so near the horizon that it carries a bright twilight around the heavens in its daily circuit. As the sun sinks lower and lower, this twilight grows gradually fainter till it fades away.
Page 99 - Sadler, the celebrated aeronaut, ascended on one occasion in a balloon from Dublin, and was wafted across the Irish Channel, when, on his approach to the Welsh coast, the balloon descended nearly to the surface of the sea. By this time the sun was set, and the shades of evening began to close in. He threw out nearly all his ballast, and suddenly sprang upward to a great height, and by so doing brought his horizon to dip below the sun, producing the whole phenomenon of a western sunrise. Subsequently...