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... theories and distances are based upon the most rigorous mathematical demonstrations . Thus the study has at once the beauty of poetry and the ex- actness of Geometry . The Appearance of the Heavens to an Observer.- The great dome of the ...
... theories and distances are based upon the most rigorous mathematical demonstrations . Thus the study has at once the beauty of poetry and the ex- actness of Geometry . The Appearance of the Heavens to an Observer.- The great dome of the ...
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... theory of the obliquity of the ecliptic . He also predicted an eclipse of the sun which is memorable in ancient history as having terminated a war between the Medes and Lydians . These nations were engaged in a fierce battle , but the ...
... theory of the obliquity of the ecliptic . He also predicted an eclipse of the sun which is memorable in ancient history as having terminated a war between the Medes and Lydians . These nations were engaged in a fierce battle , but the ...
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... ears of man being too gross for such divine melody . Eudoxus , who lived in the fourth century B. C. , in- vented the theory of the Crystalline Spheres . He held that the heavenly bodies are set , like gems 18 INTRODUCTION .
... ears of man being too gross for such divine melody . Eudoxus , who lived in the fourth century B. C. , in- vented the theory of the Crystalline Spheres . He held that the heavenly bodies are set , like gems 18 INTRODUCTION .
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... THEORY . - The movements of the planets were to the ancients extremely complex . Venus , for instance , was sometimes seen as " evening star " in the west , and then again as " morning star " in the east . Sometimes she seemed to be ...
... THEORY . - The movements of the planets were to the ancients extremely complex . Venus , for instance , was sometimes seen as " evening star " in the west , and then again as " morning star " in the east . Sometimes she seemed to be ...
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... THEORY . D Thus they had a complete system . They did not exactly understand the nature of these bars- whether they were real or only imaginary - but they did comprehend their action , as they thought ; and so they supposed the bar ...
... THEORY . D Thus they had a complete system . They did not exactly understand the nature of these bars- whether they were real or only imaginary - but they did comprehend their action , as they thought ; and so they supposed the bar ...
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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...