British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 11Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... round the other planets , as the Moon does round the Earth . They are so called because they always attend them , and make the tour about the Sun together with them . The words moon and satellite are some- times used indifferently ...
... round the other planets , as the Moon does round the Earth . They are so called because they always attend them , and make the tour about the Sun together with them . The words moon and satellite are some- times used indifferently ...
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... round black spot . The pe- riods or revolutions of Jupiter's satellites are found out from their conjunctions with that planet , after the same manner as those of the primary planets are dis- covered from their opposition to the Sun ...
... round black spot . The pe- riods or revolutions of Jupiter's satellites are found out from their conjunctions with that planet , after the same manner as those of the primary planets are dis- covered from their opposition to the Sun ...
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... round it , at its centre . Dr. Halley , in the Philosophical Transactions , gives a correction of the theory of the motions of the fourth or Huygenian satel- lite . Its true period he makes 11d 22h 41 ' 6 " . The periodical revolutions ...
... round it , at its centre . Dr. Halley , in the Philosophical Transactions , gives a correction of the theory of the motions of the fourth or Huygenian satel- lite . Its true period he makes 11d 22h 41 ' 6 " . The periodical revolutions ...
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... round the earth is 10,759 days . He moves from west to east nearly in the plane of the ecliptic , and exhibits irregularities similar to those of Jupiter and Mars . He becomes retrograde both before and after his opposition , when at ...
... round the earth is 10,759 days . He moves from west to east nearly in the plane of the ecliptic , and exhibits irregularities similar to those of Jupiter and Mars . He becomes retrograde both before and after his opposition , when at ...
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... round his shorter axis , and that the ring moves in the plane of his equator . Herschei has confirmed this opinion by actual observa- tion . He has ascertained the duration of a revolution of Saturn round his axis to amount to 0.428 day ...
... round his shorter axis , and that the ring moves in the plane of his equator . Herschei has confirmed this opinion by actual observa- tion . He has ascertained the duration of a revolution of Saturn round his axis to amount to 0.428 day ...
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Page 1 - I scarce could turn to fall upon the ground, with my head to the northward, when I felt the heat of its current plainly upon my face. We all lay flat on the ground, as if dead, till Idris told us it was blown over. The meteor, or purple haze, which I saw, was indeed passed, but the light air that still blew was of heat to threaten suffocation.
Page 5 - Of the nature of those changes which take place in the Digestion of Food. Of the Chemical Principles of the process of Tanning Leather; and of the objects that must particularly be had in view in attempts to improve that most useful art. Of the Chemical Principles of the art of making Soap ; of the art of Bleaching; of the art of Dyeing; and in general of all the Mechanical Arts, as they apply to the various branches of manufacture.
Page 25 - Hence too it follows, that the infamous and unchristian practice of withholding baptism from negro servants, lest they should thereby gain their liberty, is totally without foundation, as well as without excuse. The l«w of England acts upon general and extensive principles : it gives liberty, rightly understood, that is, protection, to a Jew, a Turk, or a Heathen...
Page 11 - It is very probable that the great stratum called the milky way, is that in which the sun is placed, though perhaps not in the very centre of its thickness.
Page 3 - The distance between two points on the surface of a sphere is the length of the minor arc of a great circle between them.
Page 19 - To this head may also be referred the practice of what is called a set-off: whereby the defendant acknowledges the justice of the plaintiff's demand on the one hand, but on the other sets up a demand of his own, to counterbalance that of the plaintiff, either in the whole or in part...