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... fixed stars , " although it is now known that they also are in motion - the most rapid of any known even to Astronomy - but through such immense or- bits that they seem to us stationary . Then , too , diagonally girdling the heavens ...
... fixed stars , " although it is now known that they also are in motion - the most rapid of any known even to Astronomy - but through such immense or- bits that they seem to us stationary . Then , too , diagonally girdling the heavens ...
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... fixed stars in the same place . This sphere of stars sur- rounds the earth on every side . In the daytime we cannot see the stars because of the superior light of the sun ; but with a telescope they can be traced , and an astronomer ...
... fixed stars in the same place . This sphere of stars sur- rounds the earth on every side . In the daytime we cannot see the stars because of the superior light of the sun ; but with a telescope they can be traced , and an astronomer ...
Page 107
... fixed stars , surrounding the sun in every direction . When our globe is at A , the stars about E are on the meridian at midnight . Being seen from the earth in the opposite quarter to the sun , they are most favorably placed for THE ...
... fixed stars , surrounding the sun in every direction . When our globe is at A , the stars about E are on the meridian at midnight . Being seen from the earth in the opposite quarter to the sun , they are most favorably placed for THE ...
Page 108
... stars at G , on the contrary , will be invisible , for the sun intervenes between them and the earth : they are on ... fixed stars is not as apparent to us as his daily motion , because his superior panying plate ( Fig . 31 ) , we can ...
... stars at G , on the contrary , will be invisible , for the sun intervenes between them and the earth : they are on ... fixed stars is not as apparent to us as his daily motion , because his superior panying plate ( Fig . 31 ) , we can ...
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... fixed path through the heavens . When the earth is in any part of the ... stars . If the earth could leave a shining line as it passes through its ... stars . But if we notice a star at the western horizon just at sunset , we can tell ...
... fixed path through the heavens . When the earth is in any part of the ... stars . If the earth could leave a shining line as it passes through its ... stars . But if we notice a star at the western horizon just at sunset , we can tell ...
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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...