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... bodies at any time , WHITALL'S MOVABLE PLANISPHERE is of great service . It may be procured of the publishers of this work . " Orreries are of little account . " A tellurian is invaluable in explaining Precession of the Equinoxes ...
... bodies at any time , WHITALL'S MOVABLE PLANISPHERE is of great service . It may be procured of the publishers of this work . " Orreries are of little account . " A tellurian is invaluable in explaining Precession of the Equinoxes ...
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... Bodies - the sun , moon , planets , stars , and , as our globe itself is a planet , of the earth also . It is , above all others , a science that cultivates the powers of the imagination . Yet all its theories and distances are based ...
... Bodies - the sun , moon , planets , stars , and , as our globe itself is a planet , of the earth also . It is , above all others , a science that cultivates the powers of the imagination . Yet all its theories and distances are based ...
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... 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 the con- fusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel . The ...
... 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 the con- fusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel . The ...
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... gods - the 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 .
... gods - the 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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Joel Dorman Steele. held that the heavenly bodies are set , like gems , in hollow , transparent , crystal globes , which ... body . Hipparchus , who flourished in the second century B. C. , has been called the " Newton of Antiquity . " He ...
Joel Dorman Steele. held that the heavenly bodies are set , like gems , in hollow , transparent , crystal globes , which ... body . Hipparchus , who flourished in the second century B. C. , has been called the " Newton of Antiquity . " He ...
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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