The Quarterly Review, Volume 50William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1834 |
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... bodies , would of course * be for ever shrouded from our view by the splendour of their respective orbs of day . This idea ... body can be the attendant of another . A straight line drawn downward through the two brightest stars of Cas ...
... bodies , would of course * be for ever shrouded from our view by the splendour of their respective orbs of day . This idea ... body can be the attendant of another . A straight line drawn downward through the two brightest stars of Cas ...
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... body , a planet of its own , which , when interposed between us and the star , cuts off a large portion of its light . It is highly probable that a similar arrangement periodically affects the light of Omicron , though upon a different ...
... body , a planet of its own , which , when interposed between us and the star , cuts off a large portion of its light . It is highly probable that a similar arrangement periodically affects the light of Omicron , though upon a different ...
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... bodies must have been created , otherwise they could not have been liable to decay . * They performed their ap- pointed revolutions , and they perished - just as man lives his pre- destined number of years , and dies . If created , then ...
... bodies must have been created , otherwise they could not have been liable to decay . * They performed their ap- pointed revolutions , and they perished - just as man lives his pre- destined number of years , and dies . If created , then ...
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... body were still in existence , and that the most likely place to detect them would be near the nodes of those ... bodies , which apparently are members of their planetary family , we have already seen . Positive knowledge assures us that ...
... body were still in existence , and that the most likely place to detect them would be near the nodes of those ... bodies , which apparently are members of their planetary family , we have already seen . Positive knowledge assures us that ...
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... body now generally called Encke's comet , which moves with extraordinary rapidity in an exceedingly eccentric orbit round . the sun . That orbit it completes in about three years and four months , or , more accurately speaking , in ...
... body now generally called Encke's comet , which moves with extraordinary rapidity in an exceedingly eccentric orbit round . the sun . That orbit it completes in about three years and four months , or , more accurately speaking , in ...
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