A System of Astronomy: On the Principles of CopernicusJ.B. Moore, 1827 - 252 pages |
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... means of returning light for light , while we have neither observatory nor observ- er upon our half of the globe , and the earth revolves in per- petual darkness to our unsearching eyes ? " : Calculations made for the City of Washington ...
... means of returning light for light , while we have neither observatory nor observ- er upon our half of the globe , and the earth revolves in per- petual darkness to our unsearching eyes ? " : Calculations made for the City of Washington ...
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... mean lu- nations , in a period of a little more than 18 years ; when a series of eclipses has closed at the earth , how long before a new series will begin ; notice of the memorable eclipse in June 16 , 1806 ; extent of the moon's dark ...
... mean lu- nations , in a period of a little more than 18 years ; when a series of eclipses has closed at the earth , how long before a new series will begin ; notice of the memorable eclipse in June 16 , 1806 ; extent of the moon's dark ...
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... means freed the celestial sphere from that inconceivable velocity which must have been attributed to it to accomplish its diurnal revo- lution . He learnt from Aristotle and Plutarch that the Pythagoreans had made the Earth and planets ...
... means freed the celestial sphere from that inconceivable velocity which must have been attributed to it to accomplish its diurnal revo- lution . He learnt from Aristotle and Plutarch that the Pythagoreans had made the Earth and planets ...
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... mean lunations , or 354 days . Equator is an imaginary circle drawn round the centre of the earth from east to west . Equation is a correction applied to the mean time or place to reduce it to the true . Equinoxes , or equinoctial ...
... mean lunations , or 354 days . Equator is an imaginary circle drawn round the centre of the earth from east to west . Equation is a correction applied to the mean time or place to reduce it to the true . Equinoxes , or equinoctial ...
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... a vector radius , such line will pass over equal areas , in equal times . 2nd . The squares of the periodical times are as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun . 1 These laws exist " between the rate of motion OF THE PLANETS . 31.
... a vector radius , such line will pass over equal areas , in equal times . 2nd . The squares of the periodical times are as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun . 1 These laws exist " between the rate of motion OF THE PLANETS . 31.
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altitude angle aphelion appear Aries ascending node astronomers atmosphere axis bissextile calculated celestial centre comets conjunction constellation dark shadow declination degree diameter disk diurnal motion diurnal rotation divided dominical letter earth earth's shadow eclipse Epact equal equator equinox fast of clock full moon heavenly body heavens Herschel horary motion horizon hour inferior conjunction Jupiter latitude light longitude and anomaly luminous lunar lunation March Mars mean anomalies mean distance Mercury meridian miles minutes month moon's orbit obliquity observed opposite parallax parallel passing penumbra perihelion planet polar circles pole Proportional Logarithms radius reckoned refraction Retrograde motion revolution right ascension rising round the sun satellites Saturn seen semi-diameter side sidereal slow of clock solar solstice subtract Sun fast Sun slow sun's anomaly sun's mean sun's place surface tides tion transit tropic true Turn the globe Venus visible zenith
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Page 200 - Rectify the globe to the latitude of the place; bring the sun's place in the ecliptic to the meridian, and set the index to XII.
Page ii - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Page 177 - Observer' at a salary of 100£ per annum, his duty being 'forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.
Page iv - ... constitution of the universe by the means of these buildings and of observers stationed in them, shall we doubt of their usefulness to every nation? And while scarcely a year passes over our heads without bringing some new astronomical discovery to light, which we must fain receive at...
Page 179 - ... that, situated as we are in this Western hemisphere, more than three thousand miles from any fixed or known meridian, it would be proper, in a national point of view, to establish a first meridian for ourselves ; and that measures should be taken for the eventual establishment of such a meridian in the United States. In examining the maps and charts of the United States, and the particular States, or their...
Page 160 - The atmosphere is known to abound with electric matter, and the appearance of the electric matter in vacuo is exactly like the appearance of the aurora borealis, which, from its great altitude, may be considered to be in as perfect a vacuum as we can make. The electric matter in vacuo suffers the rays of light to pass through, without being affected by them. The tail of a comet does not expand itself sideways, nor does the electric matter. Hence, he supposes the tails of comets, the aurora borealis,...
Page 162 - ... aperture; and, at another time, in 41 minutes, he saw 258,000 stars pass through the field of his telescope. Every improvement in his...
Page 179 - Junonia, one of these islands, supposed to be the present island of Teneriffe. " The Arabians, it is said, fixed their firs,t meridian at the most westerly part of the continent of Africa. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when Europe was emerging from the dark ages, and a...
Page 66 - There is not, perhaps," said this great and sound astronomer, " another object in the heavens that presents us with such a variety of extraordinary phenomena as the planet Saturn ; a magnificent globe encompassed by a stupendous double ring ; attended by seven satellites; ornamented with equatorial belts; compressed at the poles ; turning on its axis ; mutually eclipsing its rings and satellites, and eclipsed by them ; the most distant of the rings also turning on its axis, and the same taking place...
Page 138 - A month in law is a lunar month, or twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed ; not only because it is always one uniform period, but because it falls naturally into a quarterly division by weeks. Therefore a lease for