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... Celestial Hemisphere , will be found in this edition . VI . The formal denial of the pretended " Lunar Dis- coveries " of the same indefatigable astronomer , appears , also , in these pages . VII . In the brief chapter upon the ...
... Celestial Hemisphere , will be found in this edition . VI . The formal denial of the pretended " Lunar Dis- coveries " of the same indefatigable astronomer , appears , also , in these pages . VII . In the brief chapter upon the ...
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... Celestial Hemisphere . His formal Declaration against his imputed " Lunar Discoveries " 69. Parley tells about Telescopes . About Microscopes . About the general Wonders of Creation 70. Thanks to illustrious Astronomers and ...
... Celestial Hemisphere . His formal Declaration against his imputed " Lunar Discoveries " 69. Parley tells about Telescopes . About Microscopes . About the general Wonders of Creation 70. Thanks to illustrious Astronomers and ...
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... celestial sphere , if even amount- ing to no more than five seconds of a degree , has been computed , in the star 61 Cygni , to be really equal to one hundred and twenty millions of millions THE SUN , MOON , AND STARS . 167.
... celestial sphere , if even amount- ing to no more than five seconds of a degree , has been computed , in the star 61 Cygni , to be really equal to one hundred and twenty millions of millions THE SUN , MOON , AND STARS . 167.
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... celestial globe , you see all the What did the ancient astronomers do ? What did they call a collection of stars ? Why did they give the names of animals to the constellations ? figures of all these living creatures , with those of 182 ...
... celestial globe , you see all the What did the ancient astronomers do ? What did they call a collection of stars ? Why did they give the names of animals to the constellations ? figures of all these living creatures , with those of 182 ...
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... celestial regions . It is in this manner that Chandra , or the Moon , is figured by the Hindoos as if it were an Antelope . The antelope is , perhaps , the swiftest of ani- mals ; and of the swift motion of the moon I have told you , in ...
... celestial regions . It is in this manner that Chandra , or the Moon , is figured by the Hindoos as if it were an Antelope . The antelope is , perhaps , the swiftest of ani- mals ; and of the swift motion of the moon I have told you , in ...
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Common terms and phrases
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.