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... heavenly bodies at any time , WHITALL'S MOVABLE PLANISPHERE is of great service . It may be procured of the ... Celestial Measurements , " near the close of the work , should be constantly referred to dur- ing the term . In the figures ...
... heavenly bodies at any time , WHITALL'S MOVABLE PLANISPHERE is of great service . It may be procured of the ... Celestial Measurements , " near the close of the work , should be constantly referred to dur- ing the term . In the figures ...
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... Heavenly 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 ...
... Heavenly 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 ...
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... 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 the con- fusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel ...
... 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 the con- fusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel ...
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... celestial phenomena by natural causes . For his audacity and impiety , as his countryman considered it , he and his family were doomed to perpetual banish- ment . Pythagoras founded ... heavenly bodies are set , like gems 18 INTRODUCTION .
... celestial phenomena by natural causes . For his audacity and impiety , as his countryman considered it , he and his family were doomed to perpetual banish- ment . Pythagoras founded ... 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 ... body . Hipparchus , who flourished in the second century B. C. , has been called the " Newton of Antiquity . " He was the ...
Joel Dorman Steele. held that the heavenly bodies are set , like gems , in hollow , transparent , crystal globes ... body . Hipparchus , who flourished in the second century B. C. , has been called the " Newton of Antiquity . " He was the ...
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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