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... 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 to resume his observations . The fourth night was favorable , and ...
... 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 to resume his observations . The fourth night was favorable , and ...
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... eyes , two ears , and one mouth . So in the heavens there are two favorable stars , Jupiter and Venus ; two ... naked eye , can exercise no influence over the earth , and would be useless , and therefore do not exist . Besides ...
... eyes , two ears , and one mouth . So in the heavens there are two favorable stars , Jupiter and Venus ; two ... naked eye , can exercise no influence over the earth , and would be useless , and therefore do not exist . Besides ...
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... 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 sphere is constantly visible to us ; and so far distant are the stars ...
... 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 sphere is constantly visible to us ; and so far distant are the stars ...
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... naked eye , and at mid- day by using a smoked glass . The disk will appear to us perfectly distinct and circular , and with no spot to dim its brightness . If we use , however , a telescope of moderate power , taking the precaution to ...
... naked eye , and at mid- day by using a smoked glass . The disk will appear to us perfectly distinct and circular , and with no spot to dim its brightness . If we use , however , a telescope of moderate power , taking the precaution to ...
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... naked eye for an entire week . On the day of the eclipse in 1858 , a spot over 107,000 miles broad was distinctly seen , and attracted general attention in this country . Some who read this paragraph will doubtless recall its ap ...
... naked eye for an entire week . On the day of the eclipse in 1858 , a spot over 107,000 miles broad was distinctly seen , and attracted general attention in this country . Some who read this paragraph will doubtless recall its ap ...
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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...