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... TELESCOPE . Discovery of the solar spots . - They seem to have been noticed as early as 807 A. D. , although the tel- escope was not invented until 1610 , and Galileo dis- covered the solar spots in the following year . We read in the ...
... TELESCOPE . Discovery of the solar spots . - They seem to have been noticed as early as 807 A. D. , although the tel- escope was not invented until 1610 , and Galileo dis- covered the solar spots in the following year . We read in the ...
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... telescope , he turned away for a moment , and on looking back it was gone . The appearance of the spots is periodical . — It is a re- markable fact that the number of spots increases and diminishes through a regular interval of about ...
... telescope , he turned away for a moment , and on looking back it was gone . The appearance of the spots is periodical . — It is a re- markable fact that the number of spots increases and diminishes through a regular interval of about ...
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... coarse . Under a large telescope the surface seems to be entirely made up of luminous masses , imperfectly separated by dark dots called pores . These masses are said by Mr. Nasmyth to have a " willow - 60 THE SOLAR SYSTEM .
... coarse . Under a large telescope the surface seems to be entirely made up of luminous masses , imperfectly separated by dark dots called pores . These masses are said by Mr. Nasmyth to have a " willow - 60 THE SOLAR SYSTEM .
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... telescope . ARE THE PLANETS INHABITED ? -- This question is one which very naturally arises , when we think of the planets as worlds in so many respects similar to our own . We can give no satisfactory answer . Many think that the only ...
... telescope . ARE THE PLANETS INHABITED ? -- This question is one which very naturally arises , when we think of the planets as worlds in so many respects similar to our own . We can give no satisfactory answer . Many think that the only ...
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... telescope ; but the whole of the light side is not turned toward us , and so the planet appears gibbous , like the moon between first quarter and full . In quadrature , the planet shows us only one - half its illumined disk ; this ...
... telescope ; but the whole of the light side is not turned toward us , and so the planet appears gibbous , like the moon between first quarter and full . In quadrature , the planet shows us only one - half its illumined disk ; this ...
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Page 6 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 129 - ... while the Earth remaineth seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 251 - Back comes the Chief in triumph. Who, in the hour of fight, Hath seen the Great Twin Brethren In harness on his right. Safe comes the ship to haven, Through billows and through gales, If once the Great Twin Brethren Sit shining on the sails.
Page 289 - A solar day is the interval between two successive passages of the sun across the meridian of any place.
Page 192 - We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.
Page 29 - If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it. The die is cast, the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
Page 251 - Orion is represented under the figure of a hunter assaulting Taurus. He has a sword in his belt, a club in his right hand, and the skin of a lion in his left.
Page 31 - Nature, such as the seven metals, &,c., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven. Moreover, the satellites are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can exercise no influence over the earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist.
Page 119 - ... of September. On this day it slowly sweeps around the sky, with its face half hidden below the icy sea. It still continues to descend ; and, after it has entirely disappeared, it is still so near the horizon that it carries a bright twilight around the heavens in its daily circuit. As the sun sinks lower and lower, this twilight grows gradually fainter till it fades away.
Page 99 - Sadler, the celebrated aeronaut, ascended on one occasion in a balloon from Dublin, and was wafted across the Irish Channel, when, on his approach to the Welsh coast, the balloon descended nearly to the surface of the sea. By this time the sun was set, and the shades of evening began to close in. He threw out nearly all his ballast, and suddenly sprang upward to a great height, and by so doing brought his horizon to dip below the sun, producing the whole phenomenon of a western sunrise. Subsequently...