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... bodies at any time , WHITALL'S MOVABLE PLANISPHERE is of great service . It may be procured of the publishers of this work . " Orreries are of little account . " A tellurian is invaluable in explaining Precession of the Equinoxes ...
... bodies at any time , WHITALL'S MOVABLE PLANISPHERE is of great service . It may be procured of the publishers of this work . " Orreries are of little account . " A tellurian is invaluable in explaining Precession of the Equinoxes ...
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... bodies are called before being ignited ) of the November ring have a period of 33 years , but the great showers occur ... body ( sun or planet ) did not take place until it was partially consolidated and had attained nearly its present ...
... bodies are called before being ignited ) of the November ring have a period of 33 years , but the great showers occur ... body ( sun or planet ) did not take place until it was partially consolidated and had attained nearly its present ...
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... Bodies - the sun , moon , 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 ...
... Bodies - the sun , moon , 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 ...
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... 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 con- fusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel . The Chaldeans ...
... 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 con- fusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel . The Chaldeans ...
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... gods - the ears of man being too gross for such divine melody . Eudoxus , who lived in the fourth century B. C. , in- vented the theory of the Crystalline Spheres . He held that the heavenly bodies are set , like gems 18 INTRODUCTION .
... gods - the ears of man being too gross for such divine melody . Eudoxus , who lived in the fourth century B. C. , in- vented the theory of the Crystalline Spheres . He held that the heavenly bodies are set , like gems 18 INTRODUCTION .
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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