On the Connexion of the Physical SciencesJ. Murray, 1858 - 523 pages |
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Page 43
... visible from the celestial bodies . The globe itself , whose dimensions are obtained by actual admeasure- ment , furnishes a standard of measures with which we compare the distances , masses , densities , and volumes of the sun and ...
... visible from the celestial bodies . The globe itself , whose dimensions are obtained by actual admeasure- ment , furnishes a standard of measures with which we compare the distances , masses , densities , and volumes of the sun and ...
Page 54
... visible as a telescopic object to a body so remote as either Uranus or Neptune . Yet man , the inhabitant of the earth , soars beyond the vast dimensions of the system to which his planet belongs , and assumes the diameter of its orbit ...
... visible as a telescopic object to a body so remote as either Uranus or Neptune . Yet man , the inhabitant of the earth , soars beyond the vast dimensions of the system to which his planet belongs , and assumes the diameter of its orbit ...
Page 67
... visible with very superior instruments , and appear like a fine line across the disc of Saturn . About the middle of December , in the same year , the rings became invisible , with ordinary instruments , on account of their plane ...
... visible with very superior instruments , and appear like a fine line across the disc of Saturn . About the middle of December , in the same year , the rings became invisible , with ordinary instruments , on account of their plane ...
Page 69
... visible , which is invisible at her setting , and the contrary takes place with regard to her eastern edge . There are also librations arising from the relative positions of the earth and moon in their respective orbits ; but , as they ...
... visible , which is invisible at her setting , and the contrary takes place with regard to her eastern edge . There are also librations arising from the relative positions of the earth and moon in their respective orbits ; but , as they ...
Page 102
... visible by any means human ingenuity has yet been able to devise , and which are much beyond the limits of our perceptions . They neither can be created nor destroyed ; bodies may be burned , but their particles are not consumed - they ...
... visible by any means human ingenuity has yet been able to devise , and which are much beyond the limits of our perceptions . They neither can be created nor destroyed ; bodies may be burned , but their particles are not consumed - they ...
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