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Page 14
... become real and sentient , and , like the soft eyes in pictures , look lov- ingly and inquiringly upon us . We come into com- munion with another life , and the soul asserts its immortality more strongly than ever before . We are ...
... become real and sentient , and , like the soft eyes in pictures , look lov- ingly and inquiringly upon us . We come into com- munion with another life , and the soul asserts its immortality more strongly than ever before . We are ...
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... become familiar with many of the move- ments of the heavenly bodies . When Alexander took Babylon , in the year 331 в . c . , he found in that city a record of their observations reaching back about nineteen centuries , or nearly to the ...
... become familiar with many of the move- ments of the heavenly bodies . When Alexander took Babylon , in the year 331 в . c . , he found in that city a record of their observations reaching back about nineteen centuries , or nearly to the ...
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... become . This figure is the ellipse . The two points F F are called the foci ( singular , focus ) . We can now under- stand Kepler's attempt , and the glorious triumph which crowned his seventeen years of unflagging toil First Law ...
... become . This figure is the ellipse . The two points F F are called the foci ( singular , focus ) . We can now under- stand Kepler's attempt , and the glorious triumph which crowned his seventeen years of unflagging toil First Law ...
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... become victims of the philosopher's magic . Some prated of the wickedness of digging out valleys in the fair face of the moon . Others doggedly clung to the theory they had held from their youth up . As a specimen of the arguments ...
... become victims of the philosopher's magic . Some prated of the wickedness of digging out valleys in the fair face of the moon . Others doggedly clung to the theory they had held from their youth up . As a specimen of the arguments ...
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... become gray - haired , and their great - grandchildren would forget the story of the beginning of that wonderful journey , and could find it only in history , as we now read of Queen Elizabeth or of Shakspeare ; the eleventh generation ...
... become gray - haired , and their great - grandchildren would forget the story of the beginning of that wonderful journey , and could find it only in history , as we now read of Queen Elizabeth or of Shakspeare ; the eleventh generation ...
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ancients Andromeda angle aphelion appearance Aries astronomers atmosphere axis body Boötes bright brilliant Canis Minor Capricornus Cassiopeia celestial 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 heavens Hercules Herschel horizon inclined inferior inferior conjunction inferior planet Jupiter latitude length light lunar Lyra magnitude Mars mean distance Mercury meridian meteors miles moon moon's motion move naked eye nearly nebula Neptune node north pole orbit Orion parallax pass path penumbra perihelion Perseus Pisces planet Polaris precession rays revolve ring rising Saturn seasons seen shadow shines shower sidereal sidereal day solar day solar system space spots summer sun's superior planet surface synodic revolution tance Taurus telescope theory tion Uranus Ursa Major Ursa Minor varies velocity Venus vernal equinox visible zodiac