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... 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 Spectrum Analy- sis have been especially ...
... 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 Spectrum Analy- sis have been especially ...
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... supposed the bar revolved , carrying the sun and planets along in a large circle about the earth ; while all the short cranks kept flying around , thus sweeping each planet through a smaller circle . By this theory , we can see that the ...
... supposed the bar revolved , carrying the sun and planets along in a large circle about the earth ; while all the short cranks kept flying around , thus sweeping each planet through a smaller circle . By this theory , we can see that the ...
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... supposed the heat is produced by condensation , whereby the size of the sun is being constantly de- creased . The dynamic theory accounts for the heat and the solar spots by assuming that there are vast 64 THE SOLAR SYSTEM .
... supposed the heat is produced by condensation , whereby the size of the sun is being constantly de- creased . The dynamic theory accounts for the heat and the solar spots by assuming that there are vast 64 THE SOLAR SYSTEM .
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... SUPPOSED DISCOVERY . - Le Verrier , having detected an error in the assumed motion of Mercury , sug- gested , in the fall of 1859 , that there may be an interior planet , which is the cause of this disturb- ance . On this being made ...
... SUPPOSED DISCOVERY . - Le Verrier , having detected an error in the assumed motion of Mercury , sug- gested , in the fall of 1859 , that there may be an interior planet , which is the cause of this disturb- ance . On this being made ...
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... supposed to be that of the Conqueror of Italy . The emperor himself was not indifferent when his piercing eye caught the clear lustre of Venus smiling upon him at midday . planets . Her mean distance from the sun is about 90 THE SOLAR ...
... supposed to be that of the Conqueror of Italy . The emperor himself was not indifferent when his piercing eye caught the clear lustre of Venus smiling upon him at midday . planets . Her mean distance from the sun is about 90 THE SOLAR ...
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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.