The Orbs of Heaven: Or, The Planetary and Stellar WorldsNational Illustrated Library, 1851 - 302 sidor |
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... vast period , and , looking back through the long vista of departed years , mark with honest pride the successive triumphs of our race . Midway between the past and future , we sweep backward and witness the first rude effort to explain ...
... vast period , and , looking back through the long vista of departed years , mark with honest pride the successive triumphs of our race . Midway between the past and future , we sweep backward and witness the first rude effort to explain ...
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... vast periods . But let us not judge too hastily . The same piercing vision that follows the retreating star to depths of space almost infinite , is armed with a power so great , that if this same star should commence to revolve around ...
... vast periods . But let us not judge too hastily . The same piercing vision that follows the retreating star to depths of space almost infinite , is armed with a power so great , that if this same star should commence to revolve around ...
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... vast is the difference between the light that thus early broke in upon the mind , heralding the coming of a brighter day , and the deep and universal darkness which had covered the world , before the dawn of science . Encouraged by the ...
... vast is the difference between the light that thus early broke in upon the mind , heralding the coming of a brighter day , and the deep and universal darkness which had covered the world , before the dawn of science . Encouraged by the ...
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... vast period of nearly twenty - six thousand years has been fixed . Once revealed , the slow movement of the equinox makes it a fitting hour - hand , on the dial of the heavens , with which to measure the revolutions of ages . As the ...
... vast period of nearly twenty - six thousand years has been fixed . Once revealed , the slow movement of the equinox makes it a fitting hour - hand , on the dial of the heavens , with which to measure the revolutions of ages . As the ...
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... vast circumference , the prolongation of the axis ought to pierce the northern heavens in a series of points which would form a eurve so large as not to escape detection . But no such curve appeared ; the north pole of the heavens ...
... vast circumference , the prolongation of the axis ought to pierce the northern heavens in a series of points which would form a eurve so large as not to escape detection . But no such curve appeared ; the north pole of the heavens ...
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The Orbs of Heaven, Or, The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular ... Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1851 |
The Orbs of Heaven: Or, The Planetary and Stellar Worlds Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1851 |
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accomplished actually angle appear astronomer axis beautiful bright celestial centre circle comet commenced computed constellations Copernicus curve detected determined diameter direction discovered discovery diurnal motion doctrines earth earth's orbit eccentricity eclipse entire equal equator equinox examination existence fact finally fixed stars force Galileo Galileo Galilei genius grand heavenly bodies heavens Herschel Hipparchus hundred hypothesis inclined increase influence instrument investigation Jupiter Kepler law of gravitation light magnitude matter meridian mighty miles millions mind minute moon moon's motion move movements mysterious nearly Newton night object observations observatory orbs parallax pass perihelion periods of revolution phenomena philosopher planet planetary orbits position precisely primitive problem Ptolemy reached remarkable retrograde motion revealed revolving right ascension rotation round satellites Saturn sidereal day slowly solar system space sun and moon sun's sweeping telescope theory thousand tion truth Tycho Tycho Brahe Uranus vast velocity wonderful
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Sida 193 - God called up from dreams a man into the vestibule of heaven, saying, ' Come thou hither, and see the glory of my house.' And to the servants that stood around his throne he said, 'Take him, and undress him from his robes of flesh : cleanse his vision, and put a new breath into his nostrils : arm him with sail-broad wings for flight. Only touch not with any change his human heart — the heart that weeps and trembles.
Sida 80 - GRAVITATION.* — Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle of matter with a force directly proportional to its mass, and decreasing as the square of the distance Fig.
Sida 60 - If you forgive me, I rejoice; if you are angry I can bear it. The die is cast. The book is written, to be read either now, or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer!
Sida 151 - ... we calculated from morning till night, sometimes even at meals ; the consequence of which was, that I contracted an illness which changed my constitution for the remainder of my life. The assistance rendered by Madame Lepaute was such, that without her we never...
Sida 194 - End is there none?" the angel solemnly demanded: " Is there indeed no end ? And is this the sorrow that kills you ? " But no voice answered, that he might answer himself. Then the angel threw up his glorious hands to the heaven of heavens ; saying, " End is there none to the universe of God ? Lo ! also there is no Beginning.
Sida 221 - What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Sida 193 - ... by spans — that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves, past number were the archways, beyond memory the gates. Within were stairs that...
Sida 262 - The proposition that the sun is in the centre of the world and immovable from its place is absurd, philosophically false, and formally heretical ; because it is expressly contrary to the Holy Scriptures.
Sida 265 - Therefore, having seen and maturely considered the merits of your cause, with your said confessions and excuses, and every thing else which ought to be seen and considered, We have come to the underwritten final sentence against you. " Invoking, therefore, the most holy name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and of His Most Glorious...
Sida 296 - ... of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under such circumstances we might have years of unequal length, and seasons of capricious temperature ; planets and moons of portentous size and aspect glaring and disappearing at uncertain intervals ; tides like deluges sweeping over whole continents ; and, perhaps, the collision of two of the planets, and the consequent destruction of all organization on both of them.