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... planets . The sun is much nearer us than we supposed , and light has lost a little of its wonder- ful velocity . Much additional information has been obtained concerning Meteors and Shooting Stars . The investigations connected with ...
... planets . The sun is much nearer us than we supposed , and light has lost a little of its wonder- ful velocity . Much additional information has been obtained concerning Meteors and Shooting Stars . The investigations connected with ...
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... PLANETS VULCAN MERCURY VENUS • THE EARTH THE SEASONS PRECESSION AND NUTATION REFRACTION , ABERRATION AND PARALLAX THE MOON ECLIPSES THE TIDES MARS THE MINOR PLANETS JUPITER SATURN URANUS NEPTUNE · • METEORS AND SHOOTING STARS SHOOTING ...
... PLANETS VULCAN MERCURY VENUS • THE EARTH THE SEASONS PRECESSION AND NUTATION REFRACTION , ABERRATION AND PARALLAX THE MOON ECLIPSES THE TIDES MARS THE MINOR PLANETS JUPITER SATURN URANUS NEPTUNE · • METEORS AND SHOOTING STARS SHOOTING ...
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... 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 upon the most rigorous ...
... 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 upon the most rigorous ...
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... planets are inhabited - and he even attempted to calculate the size of some of the animals in the moon ; that the planets are placed at intervals cor- responding to the scale in music , and that they move in harmony , making the " music ...
... planets are inhabited - and he even attempted to calculate the size of some of the animals in the moon ; that the planets are placed at intervals cor- responding to the scale in music , and that they move in harmony , making the " music ...
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... planets were to the ancients extremely complex . Venus , for instance , was sometimes seen as " evening star ” in the ... planet re- volves in a circle , and that the earth is the fixed centre around which the sun and the heavenly bodies ...
... planets were to the ancients extremely complex . Venus , for instance , was sometimes seen as " evening star ” in the ... planet re- volves in a circle , and that the earth is the fixed centre around which the sun and the heavenly bodies ...
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ancients aphelion appear Aries astronomers atmosphere axis Boötes bright brilliant Canis Minor Capricornus Cassiopeia cause celestial Celestial Sphere centre Cepheus circle color comet conjunction constellation Cor Caroli dark density Describe diameter disk Draco 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 Polaris precession rays revolve ring rising Saturn seasons seen shine side sidereal sidereal day solar day solar system solstice space sphere 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
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Page 6 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 129 - ... while the Earth remaineth seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 283 - That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 289 - A solar day is the interval between two successive passages of the sun across the meridian of any place. If the earth were stationary in its orbit, the solar day would be of the same length as the sidereal ; but while the earth is turning around on its axis, it is going forward at the rate a'i 360° in a year, or about 1° per day.
Page 29 - The squares of the periods of revolution of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Page 29 - If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it. The die is cast, the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
Page 192 - We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.
Page 31 - Nature, such as the seven metals, &,c., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven. Moreover, the satellites are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can exercise no influence over the earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist.
Page 20 - All these facts were attempted to be accounted for by an incongruous system of " cycles and epicycles," as it is called. The advocates of this theory assumed that every planet revolves in a circle, and that the earth is the fixed centre around which the sun and the heavenly bodies move. They then conceived that a bar, or something equivalent, is connected at one end with the earth ; that at some part of this bar the sun is attached ; while between that and the earth, Venus is fastened — not to...
Page 206 - Threat'ning the world with famine, plague, and war ; To princes, death ; to kingdoms, many crosses ; To all estates, inevitable losses ; To herdsmen, rot ; to ploughmen, hapless seasons ; To sailors, storms ; to cities, civil treasons.