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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 . We are ...
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 . We are ...
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... Zenith distance . Azimuth is 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 distance SPACE . 37.
... Zenith distance . Azimuth is 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 distance SPACE . 37.
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... space . The Hour Circles may be conceived as meridians of terrestrial longitude ( 15 ° apart ) extended to the Celestial Sphere . The Colures are two principal meridians ; the Equinoctial Colure is the meridian passing through the ...
... space . The Hour Circles may be conceived as meridians of terrestrial longitude ( 15 ° apart ) extended to the Celestial Sphere . The Colures are two principal meridians ; the Equinoctial Colure is the meridian passing through the ...
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... the meridian passing through the vernal equinox ; as the meridian passing through Greenwich is the point from which terrestrial longitude is measured . Declination is distance from the equinoctial , measured on any SPACE . 39.
... the meridian passing through the vernal equinox ; as the meridian passing through Greenwich is the point from which terrestrial longitude is measured . Declination is distance from the equinoctial , measured on any SPACE . 39.
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