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... increases year by year . New volumes are constantly published to take the places of those that are in the least behind the times . Examine the new Series . Barnes ' Brief Histories - The United States History ; and others to follow ...
... increases year by year . New volumes are constantly published to take the places of those that are in the least behind the times . Examine the new Series . Barnes ' Brief Histories - The United States History ; and others to follow ...
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... increase in credit until the Middle Ages , when it was at its height of popularity . The issue of any important undertaking , or the fortunes of an individual , were foretold by the astrologer , who drew up a Horoscope , representing ...
... increase in credit until the Middle Ages , when it was at its height of popularity . The issue of any important undertaking , or the fortunes of an individual , were foretold by the astrologer , who drew up a Horoscope , representing ...
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... named from the seven planets . Now , if we increase the number of planets , this whole system falls to the ground . " NEWTON . As we have seen , the truth of the Co- pernican system was fully established by the discov- eries of HISTORY .
... named from the seven planets . Now , if we increase the number of planets , this whole system falls to the ground . " NEWTON . As we have seen , the truth of the Co- pernican system was fully established by the discov- eries of HISTORY .
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... UNIVERSE AT- TRACTS EVERY OTHER PARTICLE OF MATTER WITH A FORCE DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO ITS QUANTITY OF MATTER , AND DECREASING AS THE SQUARE OF THE DIS- TANCE INCREASES . SPACE . We now in imagination pass into space , 34 INTRODUCTION .
... UNIVERSE AT- TRACTS EVERY OTHER PARTICLE OF MATTER WITH A FORCE DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO ITS QUANTITY OF MATTER , AND DECREASING AS THE SQUARE OF THE DIS- TANCE INCREASES . SPACE . We now in imagination pass into space , 34 INTRODUCTION .
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... increases and diminishes through a regular interval of about 11.11 years . These variations seem also to be ... increase and diminution in the spots was discovered by Schwabe of Prussia , who watched the sun so carefully that it is said ...
... increases and diminishes through a regular interval of about 11.11 years . These variations seem also to be ... increase and diminution in the spots was discovered by Schwabe of Prussia , who watched the sun so carefully that it is said ...
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ancients angle aphelion appearance Aries astronomers atmosphere axis Boötes bright brilliancy calculated Canis Minor Capricornus Cassiopeia centre Cepheus circle colors comet conjunction constellation Cor Caroli density Describe diameter disk double stars earth east ecliptic equal equator equinoctial figure fixed stars globe heat heavenly bodies heavens Hercules Herschel horizon inclined inferior conjunction inferior planet Jupiter Kepler latitude length light longitude luminous lunar Lyra magnitude Mars mean distance measured Mercury meridian meteors miles moon moon's motion move naked eye nearly nebula Neptune night node north pole orbit Orion pass path penumbra perihelion Perseus Pisces planet rays revolve ring Saturn seasons seen shines side sidereal day solar day solar parallax solar system solstice south pole space spots summer sun's surface synodic revolution tance Taurus telescope theory tion Uranus Ursa Major Ursa Minor varies velocity vernal equinox visible winter ZODIACAL ZODIACAL LIGHT
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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 127 - ... while the Earth remaineth seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 259 - 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 220 - Her nails are sharpen'd into pointed claws, Her hands bear half her weight, and turn to paws ; Her lips, that once could tempt a god, begin To grow distorted in an ugly grin. And...
Page 263 - 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 34 - Law of gravitation: Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force varying directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them.
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 131 - Were it not for the reflective and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine; every shadow of a passing cloud would be pitchy darkness ; the stars would be visible all day, and every apartment, into which the sun had not direct admission, would be involved in nocturnal obscurity.
Page 186 - 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.