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... means of the Saros . He was most emphatically a dreamer . He conceived a system of the universe , in many re- spects correct ; yet he advanced no proof , and made few converts to his views , and they were soon well- nigh forgotten . He ...
... means of the Saros . He was most emphatically a dreamer . He conceived a system of the universe , in many re- spects correct ; yet he advanced no proof , and made few converts to his views , and they were soon well- nigh forgotten . He ...
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... means even now considered the best - the measurement of an arc of the meridian . PTOLEMAIC THEORY . - The movements of the planets were to the ancients extremely complex . Venus , for instance , was sometimes seen as " evening star " in ...
... means even now considered the best - the measurement of an arc of the meridian . PTOLEMAIC THEORY . - The movements of the planets were to the ancients extremely complex . Venus , for instance , was sometimes seen as " evening star " in ...
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... MEAN DISTANCES FROM THE SUN . * In rapture over the discovery of these three laws , so marked by that divine simplicity which pervades all the laws of nature , Kepler exclaimed , " Nothing holds me . The die is cast . The book is ...
... MEAN DISTANCES FROM THE SUN . * In rapture over the discovery of these three laws , so marked by that divine simplicity which pervades all the laws of nature , Kepler exclaimed , " Nothing holds me . The die is cast . The book is ...
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... ( mean ) distance by 1000 , the same sur- face will be represented to us when in aphelion ( July ) by 940 , and when in perihelion ( January ) by 1072 . DIMENSIONS . - Its diameter is about 850,000 miles . * Let us try to understand this ...
... ( mean ) distance by 1000 , the same sur- face will be represented to us when in aphelion ( July ) by 940 , and when in perihelion ( January ) by 1072 . DIMENSIONS . - Its diameter is about 850,000 miles . * Let us try to understand this ...
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... mean duration of the axial rotations , or mean length of the day of the interior planets , is much longer than that of the exterior ; the average in the former case being about twenty - four hours , but in the latter only about ten ...
... mean duration of the axial rotations , or mean length of the day of the interior planets , is much longer than that of the exterior ; the average in the former case being about twenty - four hours , but in the latter only about ten ...
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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.