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" Account thereof, that the suddain darkness, wherin the Starrs will be visible about the Sun, may give no surprize to the People, who would, if unadvertized, be apt to look upon it as Ominous, and to Interpret it as portending evill to our Sovereign Lord... "
The Observatory - Page 237
1925
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Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes

Thomas William Webb - 1859 - 274 pages
...the Sun, may give no surprize to the People, who would, if unadvertized, be apt to look upon it as Ominous, and to Interpret it as portending evill to...King George and his Government, which God preserve. Hereby they will see that there is nothing in it more than Natural, and no more than the necessary...
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Reliquiae Hearnianae: The Remains of Thomas Hearne ... Being ..., Volume 1

Thomas Hearne - 1869 - 406 pages
...would, if " unadvertized, be apt to look upon it as ominous, and to inter" pret it as portending evil to our sovereign lord king George '' and his government, which God preserve. Hereby they will " see, that there is nothing in it more than natural, and no more " than the necessary...
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Reliquiæ Hearnianæ: the remains of Thomas Hearne, extracts from his MS ...

Thomas Hearne - 1869 - 340 pages
...would, if " unadvertized, be apt to look upon it as ominous, and to inter" pret it as portending evil to our sovereign lord king George " and his government, which God preserve. Hereby they will " see, that there is nothing in it more than natural, and no more " than the necessary...
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Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, Volume 1

Thomas William Webb - 1904 - 268 pages
...about the Sun, may give no surprize to the People, who would if unadvertized, be apt to look upon it as Ominous, and to interpret it as portending evill to our Sovereign Lord King Georgo and his Government, which God preserve. Hereby they will seo that there is nothing in it more...
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Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Volumes 35-36

British Astronomical Association - 1925 - 726 pages
...the Sun, may give no surprize to the People, who would, if unadvertized, be apt to look upon it as ominous, and to interpret it as portending evill to...King George and his Government, which God preserve." Although we in these days scarcely need to be similarly reassured, we ought at least to give such an...
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The Scientific Monthly, Volume 25

James McKeen Cattell - 1927 - 622 pages
...the Sun, may give no surprize to the People, who would, if unadvertized, be apt to look upon it as ominous, and to interpret it as portending evill to...King George and his Government, which God preserve. ' ' That eclipse of 1715 &'as visible from London and fortunate, y clear weather enabled llalley to...
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Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

Sara Schechner - 1999 - 386 pages
...published the path of a solar eclipse across England in order to enlighten people who would otherwise "Interpret it as portending evill to our Sovereign Lord King George and his Government, which God preserve."129 This broadside not only assured Whigs of Halley's loyalty to the Crown but also threw...
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Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences

John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, Robin J. Wilson - 2000 - 334 pages
...in a widely distributed handbill, to reassure people who might otherwise 'be apt to look upon it as Ominous, and to interpret it as portending evill to...our Sovereign Lord, King George and his Government'. He also used the event to organize careful observations of the precise timings of the eclipse in different...
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An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics, and Providence in England, 1657-1727

William E. Burns - 2002 - 244 pages
...the Sun, may give no surprize to the People, who would, if unadvertized, be apt to look upon it as Ominous, and to Interpret it as portending evill to...King George and his Government, which God preserve. Hereby they will see that there is nothing in it more than Natural, and no more than the necessary...
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The Observatory, Volume 49

1926 - 440 pages
...the Sun, may give no surprize to the People, who would, if unadvertized, be apt to look upon it as ominous, and to interpret it as portending evill to...Observatories. He gave a brief history of the Observatory at A delaide, which was founded by Sir Charles Todd and in its first inception was mainly meteorological,...
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