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Page 14
... become real and sentient , and , like the soft eyes in pictures , look lov- ingly and inquiringly upon us . We come into com- munion with another life , and the soul asserts its immortality more strongly than ever before . are humbled ...
... become real and sentient , and , like the soft eyes in pictures , look lov- ingly and inquiringly upon us . We come into com- munion with another life , and the soul asserts its immortality more strongly than ever before . are humbled ...
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... become familiar with many of the move- ments of the heavenly bodies . When Alexander took Babylon , two centuries before Christ , he found in that city a record of their observations reaching back about nineteen centuries , or nearly to ...
... become familiar with many of the move- ments of the heavenly bodies . When Alexander took Babylon , two centuries before Christ , he found in that city a record of their observations reaching back about nineteen centuries , or nearly to ...
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... become . This figure is the ellipse . The two points F F are called the foci ( singular , focus ) . We can now under- stand Kepler's attempt , and the glorious triumph which crowned his seventeen years of unflagging toil . First Law ...
... become . This figure is the ellipse . The two points F F are called the foci ( singular , focus ) . We can now under- stand Kepler's attempt , and the glorious triumph which crowned his seventeen years of unflagging toil . First Law ...
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... become victims of the philosopher's magic . Some prated of the wickedness of digging out valleys in the fair face of the moon . Others doggedly clung to the theory they had held from their youth up . As a specimen of the arguments ...
... become victims of the philosopher's magic . Some prated of the wickedness of digging out valleys in the fair face of the moon . Others doggedly clung to the theory they had held from their youth up . As a specimen of the arguments ...
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... become gray - haired , and their great - grandchildren would forget the story of the beginning of that wonderful journey , and could find it only in history , as we now read of Queen Elizabeth or of Shakspeare ; the eleventh generation ...
... become gray - haired , and their great - grandchildren would forget the story of the beginning of that wonderful journey , and could find it only in history , as we now read of Queen Elizabeth or of Shakspeare ; the eleventh generation ...
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ancients Andromeda angle aphelion appear Aries astronomers atmosphere axis Boötes bright brilliant Canis Minor Capricornus Cassiopeia cause Celestial Sphere centre Cepheus circle color comet conjunction constellation Cor Caroli dark density Describe diameter disk earth east ecliptic equal equator equinoctial figure fixed stars full moon globe heat heavenly bodies heavens Hercules Herschel horizon inclined inferior conjunction inferior planet Jupiter latitude length light luminous lunar Lyra magnitude Mars mean distance Mercury meridian meteors miles moon's motion move naked eye nearly nebula Neptune night node north pole Orion parallax pass path penumbra perihelion Perseus Pisces polar Polaris precession rays revolve ring rising Saturn seasons seen shine side sidereal sidereal day solar day solar system solstice space spots summer sun's surface synodic revolution tance Taurus telescope theory tion Uranus Ursa Major Ursa Minor varies velocity Venus vernal equinox visible winter Zodiac