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... TRACTS EVERY OTHER PARTICLE OF MATTER WITH A FORCE DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO ITS QUANTITY OF MATTER , AND DECREASING AS THE SQUARE OF THE DIS- TANCE INCREASES . SPACE . We now in imagination pass into space , 34 INTRODUCTION .
... TRACTS EVERY OTHER PARTICLE OF MATTER WITH A FORCE DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO ITS QUANTITY OF MATTER , AND DECREASING AS THE SQUARE OF THE DIS- TANCE INCREASES . SPACE . We now in imagination pass into space , 34 INTRODUCTION .
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Joel Dorman Steele. SPACE . We now in imagination pass into space , which stretches out in every direction without bounds or measures . We look up to the heavens and try to locate some object among the mazes of the stars ... SPACE . 35 SPACE.
Joel Dorman Steele. SPACE . We now in imagination pass into space , which stretches out in every direction without bounds or measures . We look up to the heavens and try to locate some object among the mazes of the stars ... SPACE . 35 SPACE.
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... the distance from the meridian , meas- ured East or West , on the horizon ( to a vertical circle passing through the object ) . · Amplitude ( the complement of Azimuth ) is the SPACE . 37 THE THREE SYSTEMS OF CIRCLES SYSTEMS CIRCLES.
... the distance from the meridian , meas- ured East or West , on the horizon ( to a vertical circle passing through the object ) . · Amplitude ( the complement of Azimuth ) is the SPACE . 37 THE THREE SYSTEMS OF CIRCLES SYSTEMS CIRCLES.
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... space . The Hour Circles may be conceived as meridians of ter- restrial longitude ( 15 ° apart ) extended to the Celes- tial Sphere . ( See Colures , p . 40. ) The Declination Parallels are small circles par- allel to the Equinoctial ...
... space . The Hour Circles may be conceived as meridians of ter- restrial longitude ( 15 ° apart ) extended to the Celes- tial Sphere . ( See Colures , p . 40. ) The Declination Parallels are small circles par- allel to the Equinoctial ...
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... , meas- ured on any vertical circle or meridian North or South . It corresponds to terrestrial latitude . Polar distance ( the complement of Declination ) is the distance from the Pole , measured on a vertical SPACE . 39.
... , meas- ured on any vertical circle or meridian North or South . It corresponds to terrestrial latitude . Polar distance ( the complement of Declination ) is the distance from the Pole , measured on a vertical SPACE . 39.
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