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... 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 suggestive . Thus on ...
... 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 suggestive . Thus on ...
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... light hitherto made , when combined with the appropriate astronomical constants , give the mean equatorial horizontal parallax at 8 ′′ .808 and the mean solar distance 92,800,000 miles . " Some astronomical writers have recently gone so ...
... light hitherto made , when combined with the appropriate astronomical constants , give the mean equatorial horizontal parallax at 8 ′′ .808 and the mean solar distance 92,800,000 miles . " Some astronomical writers have recently gone so ...
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Joel Dorman Steele. 12 COMETS • TABLE OF CONTENTS . PAGE 206 ZODIACAL LIGHT III . THE SIDEREAL SYSTEM . THE STARS THE CONSTELLATIONS NORTHERN CIRCUMPOLAR CONSTELLATIONS EQUATORIAL CONSTELLATIONS SOUTHERN CONSTELLATIONS . 217 219 221 234 ...
Joel Dorman Steele. 12 COMETS • TABLE OF CONTENTS . PAGE 206 ZODIACAL LIGHT III . THE SIDEREAL SYSTEM . THE STARS THE CONSTELLATIONS NORTHERN CIRCUMPOLAR CONSTELLATIONS EQUATORIAL CONSTELLATIONS SOUTHERN CONSTELLATIONS . 217 219 221 234 ...
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... light , perpetually changing and twinkling ; others , more constant , beam tranquilly and softly upon us ; while many just tremble into our sight , like a wave that , struggling to reach some far - off land , dies as it touches the ...
... light , perpetually changing and twinkling ; others , more constant , beam tranquilly and softly upon us ; while many just tremble into our sight , like a wave that , struggling to reach some far - off land , dies as it touches the ...
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... lights seem full of meaning to us , could we but read their holy message ; they 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 ...
... lights seem full of meaning to us , could we but read their holy message ; they 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 ...
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