Eight Familiar Lectures on Astronomy, Intended as an Introduction to the Science...W. Phillips, 1817 - 254 pages |
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... discovered without long observation ; -the apparent motions and the real motions are greatly at variance , the cause of which will become intelligible as we proceed . If we cannot resolve to give credit to assertions which astonish by ...
... discovered without long observation ; -the apparent motions and the real motions are greatly at variance , the cause of which will become intelligible as we proceed . If we cannot resolve to give credit to assertions which astonish by ...
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... discovered the very law by which the planets move , which governs their velocity , and proving that they do not move in circles round the sun ; for if they moved in circles , they would always move at the same rate , for a reason that ...
... discovered the very law by which the planets move , which governs their velocity , and proving that they do not move in circles round the sun ; for if they moved in circles , they would always move at the same rate , for a reason that ...
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... discovery of the power of gravity , and the application of Kepler's law , raised the truth of the Copernican system ... discovering numberless fixed stars în- visible to the naked eye , but also the forms of the pla- nets . Rapid ...
... discovery of the power of gravity , and the application of Kepler's law , raised the truth of the Copernican system ... discovering numberless fixed stars în- visible to the naked eye , but also the forms of the pla- nets . Rapid ...
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... discovered planets , Vesta , Juno , Ceres , and Pallas , the largest of which does not exceed 2100 miles in diameter , according to the highest computation . Vesta , the nearest of the four to the sun , is distant from it about 225 ...
... discovered planets , Vesta , Juno , Ceres , and Pallas , the largest of which does not exceed 2100 miles in diameter , according to the highest computation . Vesta , the nearest of the four to the sun , is distant from it about 225 ...
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... discovered planets ; but I trust that these , though intersecting each other so frequently , will , on close inspection , be found sufficiently distinct . That part of each orbit which is above , or north of the Earth's orbit is shewn ...
... discovered planets ; but I trust that these , though intersecting each other so frequently , will , on close inspection , be found sufficiently distinct . That part of each orbit which is above , or north of the Earth's orbit is shewn ...
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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...