Eight Familiar Lectures on Astronomy, Intended as an Introduction to the Science...W. Phillips, 1817 - 254 pages |
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... Sun is in the centre of the universe - that the Earth is round— that the Moon reflects the Sun's rays , and is inhabited , -that the Stars are worlds — and that Comets are wan- dering Stars ; and Philolaus , about 150 years after ...
... Sun is in the centre of the universe - that the Earth is round— that the Moon reflects the Sun's rays , and is inhabited , -that the Stars are worlds — and that Comets are wan- dering Stars ; and Philolaus , about 150 years after ...
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... Sun as the centre of a system , the knowledge that their light is not borrowed from the Sun ( on all of which points we shall hereafter insist ) , all conspire to induce the supposition that the fixed stars may be the suns of other ...
... Sun as the centre of a system , the knowledge that their light is not borrowed from the Sun ( on all of which points we shall hereafter insist ) , all conspire to induce the supposition that the fixed stars may be the suns of other ...
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... sun , and moves round it in 224 days 17 hours , at the rate of 89,000 miles an hour . Her diameter is 7498 miles ; being somewhat less than the earth . The Earth is next in order . It is 95 millions of miles from the Sun , and moves ...
... sun , and moves round it in 224 days 17 hours , at the rate of 89,000 miles an hour . Her diameter is 7498 miles ; being somewhat less than the earth . The Earth is next in order . It is 95 millions of miles from the Sun , and moves ...
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... Sun that Saturn is , being 1800 millions of miles from him . It moves round the Sun in about 83 years and a half of our time , at the rate of about 15,000 miles an hour . Its diameter is about 34,000 miles , being nearly 4 times that of ...
... Sun that Saturn is , being 1800 millions of miles from him . It moves round the Sun in about 83 years and a half of our time , at the rate of about 15,000 miles an hour . Its diameter is about 34,000 miles , being nearly 4 times that of ...
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... Sun frequently , because Venus moves round the Sun in about 224 days , and the Earth in 365. But the fact is , that owing to the inclination of the orbit of Venus , she is seen to cross the Sun's disk but rarely . It happened in 1761 ...
... Sun frequently , because Venus moves round the Sun in about 224 days , and the Earth in 365. But the fact is , that owing to the inclination of the orbit of Venus , she is seen to cross the Sun's disk but rarely . It happened in 1761 ...
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24 hours aberration of light angle apparent diameter astronomer atmosphere attraction axis calculated cause celestial bodies Ceres circle clock Comet constellations Crab diagram disk divided Earth Earth moves Earth round Earth's orbit eclipse Epact equal equator equinox fixed stars Georgium Sidus globe greater half happen hence Herschel horizon inclination inhabitants Jupiter less light and heat luminous lunation Mercury meridian miles an hour millions of miles minutes Moon's motion move round nearer nearly Newton node north pole observed opposite orbit oval owing parallax pass path period planetary planets pole star precisely quarter refractive represent revolution revolve round the Earth round the Sun Saturn seconds seen shadow shew shewn side Solar spots starry sphere Sun appears Sun's rays surface telescope termed tides tion transit of Venus tropic of Cancer turned velocity Venus vernal equinox Vesta visible whole Zodiac Zodiacal light
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Page 159 - ... a degree of brightness about as strong as that with which such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight.
Page 250 - And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Page 159 - Hence we may compute that the shining or burning matter must be above three miles in diameter. It is of an irregular round figure, and very sharply defined on the edges. The other two...
Page 158 - April 19, 10h 36", sidereal time. I perceive (says he) three volcanoes in different places of the dark part of the new moon. Two of them are either already nearly extinct, or otherwise in a state of going to break out; which perhaps may be decided next lunation. The third shows an actual eruption of fire or luminous matter.
Page 155 - ... 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 only contemplated...
Page 97 - The common names, or meaning of these words, in the same order, are, the Ram, the Bull, the Twins, the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Goat, the Waterer, and the Fishes. Fig. 183. The 12 signs of the zodiac, together with the sun, and the earth revolving around him, are represented at fig.
Page 39 - The same astronomer also ascertained, that the squares of the times of revolution of the different planets are in proportion to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Page 130 - The space between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle is called the North Temperate Zone, and that between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle is the South Temperate Zone.
Page 234 - Those which appear largest, are called stars of the first magnitude ; the next to them in lustre, stars of the second magnitude ; and so on to the sixth, which are the smallest that are visible to the bare eye.
Page 159 - The other two volcanoes are much farther towards the centre of the moon, and resemble large, pretty faint nebulae, that are gradually much brighter in the middle ; but no well defined luminous spot can be discerned in them. These three spots are plainly to be distinguished from the rest of the marks upon the moon ; for the reflection of the sun's rays from the earth is, in its present situation, sufficiently bright, with a...