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... presents familiar colloquial exercises without translation , and will teach fluent conversation in a few months of diligent study . No other method will ever make the student at home in a foreign language . By this he thinks in , as ...
... presents familiar colloquial exercises without translation , and will teach fluent conversation in a few months of diligent study . No other method will ever make the student at home in a foreign language . By this he thinks in , as ...
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... present a welcome substitute . The geometrical figures showing the actual appearance of the constellations , will relieve the mind confused with the idea of numberless rivers , serpents , and classical heroes . The brightest stars only ...
... present a welcome substitute . The geometrical figures showing the actual appearance of the constellations , will relieve the mind confused with the idea of numberless rivers , serpents , and classical heroes . The brightest stars only ...
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... present one hundred and seventeen in number . ( The paths of some extend a little outside the Zodiac . ) 4. The satellites or moons , eighteen in number , which re- volve around the different planets . 5. Meteors and shooting - stars ...
... present one hundred and seventeen in number . ( The paths of some extend a little outside the Zodiac . ) 4. The satellites or moons , eighteen in number , which re- volve around the different planets . 5. Meteors and shooting - stars ...
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... presents all the phases of the moon . At superior conjunction , the whole illumined disk is turned to- ward us ; but the planet is lost in the sun's rays : therefore neither Mercury nor Venus ever presents a full circular appearance ...
... presents all the phases of the moon . At superior conjunction , the whole illumined disk is turned to- ward us ; but the planet is lost in the sun's rays : therefore neither Mercury nor Venus ever presents a full circular appearance ...
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... presents all the phases of the moon , from a slender crescent to gibbous , when its light is lost in that of the sun . These phases prove that Mer- cury is spherical , and shines by the light reflected from the sun . When in quadrature ...
... presents all the phases of the moon , from a slender crescent to gibbous , when its light is lost in that of the sun . These phases prove that Mer- cury is spherical , and shines by the light reflected from the sun . When in quadrature ...
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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