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... centre ; but makers of telescopes assure us that , if not now , yet very soon , we shall have instruments to show us the moon as if its distance were only sixty miles ; add to which , that if , at the time , our own sky or atmosphere is ...
... centre ; but makers of telescopes assure us that , if not now , yet very soon , we shall have instruments to show us the moon as if its distance were only sixty miles ; add to which , that if , at the time , our own sky or atmosphere is ...
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... centres , but without any well - defined luminous spots . " The appearance , adds Sir William , " of what I have called the What discovery was made by Sir William Herschel , in the year 1787 ? actual fire or eruption of a volcano ...
... centres , but without any well - defined luminous spots . " The appearance , adds Sir William , " of what I have called the What discovery was made by Sir William Herschel , in the year 1787 ? actual fire or eruption of a volcano ...
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... are more attracted by her than the waters on the opposite side of the earth at n ; and therefore the distance between the earth's centre and the waters on its surface , under the opposite THE SUN , MOON , AND STARS . 39.
... are more attracted by her than the waters on the opposite side of the earth at n ; and therefore the distance between the earth's centre and the waters on its surface , under the opposite THE SUN , MOON , AND STARS . 39.
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... centre of its system ; that is , it is in the middle ( or nearly in the middle ) of the orbits of its planets . It gives light and heat to all . The sun is no doubt a solid globe , and has probably an uneven surface , like the moon . It ...
... centre of its system ; that is , it is in the middle ( or nearly in the middle ) of the orbits of its planets . It gives light and heat to all . The sun is no doubt a solid globe , and has probably an uneven surface , like the moon . It ...
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... centre of the earth , even with the sun over our heads , ) the colder is our situation ! That the sun gives light ; that it is a luminous or shining body ; and that , in some manner , its action upon our atmosphere ( an action effective ...
... centre of the earth , even with the sun over our heads , ) the colder is our situation ! That the sun gives light ; that it is a luminous or shining body ; and that , in some manner , its action upon our atmosphere ( an action effective ...
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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.