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... Jupiter , whose huge gigantic bulk Dances in ether like the lightest leaf ; To the dim verge , the suburbs of the System , Where cheerless Saturn , ' midst his watery moons , Girt with a lucid zone , in gloomy pomp , Sits like an exiled ...
... Jupiter , whose huge gigantic bulk Dances in ether like the lightest leaf ; To the dim verge , the suburbs of the System , Where cheerless Saturn , ' midst his watery moons , Girt with a lucid zone , in gloomy pomp , Sits like an exiled ...
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... Jupiter .. 227 44. About Saturn 231 45. About the Planet Herschel , or Uranus , or the Georgium Sidus 234 46. About the Motions of the Planets 236 47. Parley tells about the Secondary Planets , or Satellites , or Moons 239 48. About all ...
... Jupiter .. 227 44. About Saturn 231 45. About the Planet Herschel , or Uranus , or the Georgium Sidus 234 46. About the Motions of the Planets 236 47. Parley tells about the Secondary Planets , or Satellites , or Moons 239 48. About all ...
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... Jupiter , & c . , the time is shorter ; and as seen from the inferior planets , it is longer . From Mercury , the number of days is thirty - five ; or , almost ten days longer than from the earth . But the spots , though subsisting for ...
... Jupiter , & c . , the time is shorter ; and as seen from the inferior planets , it is longer . From Mercury , the number of days is thirty - five ; or , almost ten days longer than from the earth . But the spots , though subsisting for ...
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... By the same process as in the present case , we shall compare , by and by , the weight of the sun with the smallest of the satellites of Jupiter . CHAP . XVIII . SOMETHING MORE ABOUT SUNLIGHT . Orpheus 96 PARLEY'S TALES OF.
... By the same process as in the present case , we shall compare , by and by , the weight of the sun with the smallest of the satellites of Jupiter . CHAP . XVIII . SOMETHING MORE ABOUT SUNLIGHT . Orpheus 96 PARLEY'S TALES OF.
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... Jupiter ; for a display of which latter dispro- portion you must consult a future page ! But , again , you will hear , in another chapter , that at the surface of the sun , a man would weigh two hundred tons . What , then , would he ...
... Jupiter ; for a display of which latter dispro- portion you must consult a future page ! But , again , you will hear , in another chapter , that at the surface of the sun , a man would weigh two hundred tons . What , then , would he ...
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annular eclipse appear Arago armillary sphere ash-coloured light asteroïds astronomers atmosphere attraction axis balloon believe bright called cause celestial centre changes CHAP clouds comet dark diameter disc distance earth falling stars figure fixed stars full moon globe Halley's comet Harvest Moons heaven heavenly bodies horizon hundred Hunter's Moon Jupiter larger less light and heat little readers luminous magnitude Mars Mercury meteors Milky millions of miles minute moon's moonlight motion mountains naked eye nearer nebules night November observed old moons opening orbit PARLEY TELLS philosophers planetary primary planets revolving round rise round the earth round the sun satellites Saturn secondary planets seen shallow shooting or falling side Sir John Herschel Sir William Herschel Solar System sometimes spots sun and moon sun's supposed surface tail telescope things thousand miles tion told turn round Uranus Venus visible volcanoes whole Zodiacal Light
Popular passages
Page 16 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page xiii - Seized in thought, On Fancy's wild and roving wing I sail, From the green borders of the peopled earth, And the pale moon, her duteous, fair attendant ; From solitary Mars ; from the vast orb Of Jupiter, whose huge gigantic bulk Dances in ether like the lightest leaf...
Page 26 - ... a degree of brightness about as strong as that with which such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight.
Page 257 - On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Page 359 - Centauri and the Cross ; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is in comparison hardly traceable.
Page 20 - ... below, seem to bid defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around the base of these frightful eminences, are strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the over-hanging cliffs, we expect every moment that they are to be torn from their base, and that the process of destructive separation which we had only contemplated in its effects, is about to be exhibited before us in tremendous...
Page 359 - ... almost vacant parts of its general mass, and that eccentrically, so as to be much nearer to the parts about the Cross than to that diametrically opposed to it.
Page 20 - ... spring from their rugged flanks, and threatening the valleys below, seem to bid defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around the base of these frightful eminences, are strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the over-hanging cliffs, we expect every moment that they are to be torn from their base, and that the process of destructive separation which we had...
Page 360 - ... other objects are scattered. Some of the objects in it are of very singular and incomprehensible forms ; the chief one, especially (30...
Page 163 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.