A Manual of Geographical Science: Mathematical, Physical, Historical, and Descriptive, Part 1J. W. Parker, 1852 - 445 pages |
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altitude appear astronomical atmosphere axis called celestial sphere centre chronometer circle coast Colure constellations contour lines convex lens cross wires crosses the meridian curves described determined direction distance diurnal motion Earth Earth's surface east elevation equal equator exactly explained feet geographical glass globe graduated heavenly body heavens hemisphere hole horizontal Hyades important intersection islands land latitude lens light line of collimation longitude manner map-makers maps means miles minutes motion mountain move nearly number of degrees object observed ocean parallels passing perpendicular phenomena pivots plane point of Aries polar pole Pole Star portion position prime vertical produced projection proper motion rays refraction represented right angles right ascension river round scale seen sextant space spherical triangle square miles star Sun's suppose tangent telescope temperature transit instrument tube turning the screw Vernier vertical wire winds zenith
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Page 363 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 363 - Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Page 364 - Certain species in each are found in no other, several are found in one region which do not range into the next above, whilst they extend to that below, or vice versa. Certain species have their maximum of development in each zone, being most prolific in individuals in that zone in which is their maximum, and of which they may be regarded as especially characteristic. Mingled with the true natives of every zone are stragglers, owing their presence to the action of the secondary influences which modify...
Page 407 - ... of civilization, its sure precursor, is actually commenced and in active progress ? And what may we not expect from the exertions of powerful minds called into action under circumstances totally different from any which have yet existed in the world, and over an extent of territory far surpassing that which has hitherto produced the whole harvest of human intellect?
Page 3 - The proposition that the earth is not the centre of the world, nor immovable, but that it moves, and also with a diurnal motion, is also absurd, philosophically false, and, theologically considered, at least erroneous in faith.
Page 273 - He was led to these conclusions principally by information obtained from the inhabitants, and pilots, and in part by the occurrence of marine shells of recent species, which he had found at several points on the coast of Norway above the level of the sea.
Page 195 - A deep precipitous valley below us, at the bottom of which I had seen one or two miserable villages in the morning, bore in the evening a complete resemblance to a beautiful lake ; the vapour which played the part of water ascending nearly half way up the sides of the vale, and on its bright surface trees and rocks being distinctly reflected. I had not been long contemplating this phenomenon, before a sudden storm came on and dropped a curtain of clouds over the scene.
Page 8 - ... the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic, and more remotely upon the variations in that inclination known as precession and nutation.
Page 277 - ... and we may feel sure, that this sinking must have been immense in amount as well as in area, thus to have buried over the broad face of the ocean every one of those mountains, above which atolls now stand like monuments, marking the place of their former existence. Reflecting how powerful an agent with respect to denudation, and consequently to the nature and thickness of the deposits in accumulation, the sea must ever be, when acting for prolonged periods on the land, during either its slow...
Page 324 - We meet here with a great number of evergreen trees. Vegetation never ceases entirely, but verdant meadows are more rare.