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1st Ec 1st Sh 1st Tr 2nd Ec 2nd Sh achromatic Airy aperture appearance Astronomer-Royal Astronomical Register atmosphere aurora axis body bright lines Cancri centre chromosphere clouds colour comet Conjunction of Moon corona correspondents craters diameter disc discovered distance earth eye-piece faculæ Fraunhofer lines glass Greenwich Herschel Huggins hydrogen inches instrument Jupiter Jupiter's Satellites light Lockyer longitude lunar magnitude Major Tennant maps Mare Serenitatis Mars Mean Noon Meridian Passage meteors minor planets minutes moon's motion nebulæ notice object observations observatory Occultation orbit paper parallax perihelion phenomena photographs photosphere position present prism Proctor Professor prominences protuberances Reappearance of ditto reflector refractor remarks result Right Ascension ring rotation Royal Saturn seen Sidereal slit Society Solar Eclipse solar spots spectroscope stars Stone T. W. Webb telescope Thur tion transit of Mercury transit of Venus Tues turning round Uranus visible
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Page 16 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Page 23 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands. "They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed; 27 but thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Page 15 - Son of his love ; in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins: who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him; and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.
Page 21 - Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.
Page 5 - Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds ; who, being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high ; having become by so much better than the angels, as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they.
Page 105 - Treutler were balloted for and duly elected Fellows of the Society. The following papers were read : — 1. " Thermometric Observations on Board the Cunard RMSS Algeria,
Page 10 - ... having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth...
Page 222 - ... or rapid dissipation, the uprush and dissipation representing the birth and death of a prominence. As a rule, the attachment to the chromosphere is narrow and is not often single ; higher up, the stems, so to speak, intertwine, and the prominence expands and soars upward until it is lost in delicate filaments, which are carried away in floating masses.
Page 232 - The spot-spectrum was very narrow, as the spot itself was so greatly foreshortened ; but the spectrum of the chromosphere showed me that the whole adjacent limb was covered with prominences of various heights all blended together. Further, the prominences seemed fed, so to speak, from, apparently, the preceding edge of the spot ; for both C, F, and the line near D, were magnificently...
Page 172 - Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, read at the Annual Visitation of the Royal Observatory, 1860, June 2; and Address of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors, 1860, May 12.