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... tion of four planets and the moon , which must have occurred a century before the Flood . They have also the first record of an eclipse of the sun , which took place about two hundred and twenty years * after the Deluge . It is reported ...
... tion of four planets and the moon , which must have occurred a century before the Flood . They have also the first record of an eclipse of the sun , which took place about two hundred and twenty years * after the Deluge . It is reported ...
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... tion and diligent study of the heavens . THE COPERNICAN SYSTEM . - About the middle of the sixteenth century , Copernicus , breaking away from the theory of Ptolemy , which was still taught in all the institutions of learning in Europe ...
... tion and diligent study of the heavens . THE COPERNICAN SYSTEM . - About the middle of the sixteenth century , Copernicus , breaking away from the theory of Ptolemy , which was still taught in all the institutions of learning in Europe ...
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... tion by P , and her distance from the sun by p , then letting D and d represent the same in another planet , we have the proportion P2 : D2 :: p3 : d3 . Kepler , strangely enough , believed in the " Music of the Spheres . " He made ...
... tion by P , and her distance from the sun by p , then letting D and d represent the same in another planet , we have the proportion P2 : D2 :: p3 : d3 . Kepler , strangely enough , believed in the " Music of the Spheres . " He made ...
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... tion of that great central orb compels all the planets to revolve about it in elliptical orbits , and holds them with an irresistible power in their appointed paths . At last he announced this grand Law of Gravitation : EVERY PARTICLE ...
... tion of that great central orb compels all the planets to revolve about it in elliptical orbits , and holds them with an irresistible power in their appointed paths . At last he announced this grand Law of Gravitation : EVERY PARTICLE ...
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... tion of the Earth's Equator to its orbit , and is called the obliquity of the ecliptic . • ( b ) The SUBORDINATE CIRCLES are Circles of Celestial Longitude , the Colures , and Parallels of Celestial Latitude . The Circles of Celestial ...
... tion of the Earth's Equator to its orbit , and is called the obliquity of the ecliptic . • ( b ) The SUBORDINATE CIRCLES are Circles of Celestial Longitude , the Colures , and Parallels of Celestial Latitude . The Circles of Celestial ...
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