Eight Familiar Lectures on Astronomy, Intended as an Introduction to the Science...W. Phillips, 1817 - 254 pages |
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... pass before our eyes day by day , and year after year , we shall be led to the conclusion that the sun moves round the earth once every 24 hours , because it seems to us to rise in the east , and to set in the west ; that , because we ...
... pass before our eyes day by day , and year after year , we shall be led to the conclusion that the sun moves round the earth once every 24 hours , because it seems to us to rise in the east , and to set in the west ; that , because we ...
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... the study of the heavens , and whose astronomers succeeded each other succes- sively , like centinels , must have permitted few eclipses to pass without observation . vious , to the sight , to have been maintained A 4 7.
... the study of the heavens , and whose astronomers succeeded each other succes- sively , like centinels , must have permitted few eclipses to pass without observation . vious , to the sight , to have been maintained A 4 7.
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... passes before our eyes , we should be enabled to form some notion that the heavenly bodies must be very large , — very distant from the earth , -and that the velocities with which they move must be very great . We will for a moment ...
... passes before our eyes , we should be enabled to form some notion that the heavenly bodies must be very large , — very distant from the earth , -and that the velocities with which they move must be very great . We will for a moment ...
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... passes , or seems to pass before our eyes , will in some measure pre- pare us to receive the great truths of Astronomy . But even to the most reflecting mind , these truths are of a nature too vast for comprehension . In almost every ...
... passes , or seems to pass before our eyes , will in some measure pre- pare us to receive the great truths of Astronomy . But even to the most reflecting mind , these truths are of a nature too vast for comprehension . In almost every ...
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... passing round the Sun mount up to their former elevation ; and the paths they describe , in- stead of approaching the circle , considerably resemble what is termed by the geometrician , the parabolic curve ; which , in familiar language ...
... passing round the Sun mount up to their former elevation ; and the paths they describe , in- stead of approaching the circle , considerably resemble what is termed by the geometrician , the parabolic curve ; which , in familiar language ...
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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...