The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... star of the first magnitude , called in English the Bull's eye , as making the eye of the constel- lation Taurus . ALDER - tree , the English name of a ge- nus of trees , called by botanists alnus . See ALNUS . ALDERMAN , in the British ...
... star of the first magnitude , called in English the Bull's eye , as making the eye of the constel- lation Taurus . ALDER - tree , the English name of a ge- nus of trees , called by botanists alnus . See ALNUS . ALDERMAN , in the British ...
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... star of the third magnitude in the constellation Per- seus , otherwise called Medusa's head . This star has been subject to singular variations , appearing at different times of different magnitudes , from the fourth to the second ...
... star of the third magnitude in the constellation Per- seus , otherwise called Medusa's head . This star has been subject to singular variations , appearing at different times of different magnitudes , from the fourth to the second ...
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... Stars , or , as it is usually called , of the qua- dripartite construction , with an exposition . He wrote also ... star in the tail of the Greater Bear , much used for finding the latitude at sea . ALLITERATION , in rhetoric , is a fi ...
... Stars , or , as it is usually called , of the qua- dripartite construction , with an exposition . He wrote also ... star in the tail of the Greater Bear , much used for finding the latitude at sea . ALLITERATION , in rhetoric , is a fi ...
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... stars , with their places , beside numerous records and observations of eclipses , the motions of the planets , & c . it will ever be held dear and valuable to the cultivators of astro- nomy . See PTOLEMY . In the original Greek it is ...
... stars , with their places , beside numerous records and observations of eclipses , the motions of the planets , & c . it will ever be held dear and valuable to the cultivators of astro- nomy . See PTOLEMY . In the original Greek it is ...
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... stars for every three hours of ap- parent time , adapted to the meridian of Greenwich , by comparing which with the distances carefully observed at sea , the ma- riner may readily infer his longitude to a degree of exactness , that may ...
... stars for every three hours of ap- parent time , adapted to the meridian of Greenwich , by comparing which with the distances carefully observed at sea , the ma- riner may readily infer his longitude to a degree of exactness , that may ...
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