The Geography of the Heavens and Class Book of Astronomy: Accompanied by a Celestial AtlasHuntington & Savage, 1843 - 305 pages |
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... Saturn , ... 235 Equinoxes , Precession of , ....... 262 Seasons , 278 Ecliptic , -Obliquity of , ... 269 Taurus , the Bull ,. 52 Eclipses , Solar and Lunar , 215 Tides , .. 272 Forces , Attractive and Projectile ,. 260 Gemini , the ...
... Saturn , ... 235 Equinoxes , Precession of , ....... 262 Seasons , 278 Ecliptic , -Obliquity of , ... 269 Taurus , the Bull ,. 52 Eclipses , Solar and Lunar , 215 Tides , .. 272 Forces , Attractive and Projectile ,. 260 Gemini , the ...
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... Saturn , which occurs once in 800 years , in the same point of the zodiac , and which has happened only eight times since the Mosaic Creation , furnishes Chronology with incontestable proofs of the date of events , when such phenomena ...
... Saturn , which occurs once in 800 years , in the same point of the zodiac , and which has happened only eight times since the Mosaic Creation , furnishes Chronology with incontestable proofs of the date of events , when such phenomena ...
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... Saturn , whirling round that planet at the rate of a thousand miles in a minute , and displaying their radiance and majestic movements to an admiring population - to add scene to scene , and magnitude to magnitude , till the mind ...
... Saturn , whirling round that planet at the rate of a thousand miles in a minute , and displaying their radiance and majestic movements to an admiring population - to add scene to scene , and magnitude to magnitude , till the mind ...
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... Saturn , and the mountains and vales which diversify the surface of the moon - such objects tend to awaken the attention , to expand the faculties , to produce a taste for rational in- vestigation , and to excite them to more eager and ...
... Saturn , and the mountains and vales which diversify the surface of the moon - such objects tend to awaken the attention , to expand the faculties , to produce a taste for rational in- vestigation , and to excite them to more eager and ...
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... Saturn , the belts and satellites of Jupiter , the phases of Mercury and Venus , the numerous groups of stars in the Milky Way , the double and treble stars , the most remarkable Nebula , the mountains and plains , the caverns and ...
... Saturn , the belts and satellites of Jupiter , the phases of Mercury and Venus , the numerous groups of stars in the Milky Way , the double and treble stars , the most remarkable Nebula , the mountains and plains , the caverns and ...
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Page 158 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 162 - Towards the morning of the 13th of November, 1799, we witnessed a most extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of bodies and falling stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regular from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon which was not filled every instant with bodies or falling stars. All the meteors left luminous traces or phosphorescent bands behind them,...
Page 88 - Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
Page 88 - So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought ; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth. And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying ; Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Page 100 - Cleaves to his back; a famish'd face he bears; His arms descend, his shoulders sink away, To multiply his legs for chase of prey. He grows a wolf, his hoariness remains, And the same rage in other members reigns.
Page 167 - While earnestly listening for the cause, I heard a faint voice near the door calling my name. I arose, and taking my sword, stood at the door. At this moment, I heard the same voice still beseeching me to rise, and saying ' O my God, the. world is on fire...
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