Popular Astronomy, And, The Orbs of HeavenG. Routledge and Sons, 1860 |
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... - Comet of 1680 studied by Newton . - Comet of 1682 named " Halley's Comet . " - Its History . - Its Return predicted . —Perihelion Passage computed . —Passes its Perihelion 13th April , 1759. - Elements of its Orbit . CONTENTS . xi.
... - Comet of 1680 studied by Newton . - Comet of 1682 named " Halley's Comet . " - Its History . - Its Return predicted . —Perihelion Passage computed . —Passes its Perihelion 13th April , 1759. - Elements of its Orbit . CONTENTS . xi.
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... his entire revolution among the fixed stars . This was actually done by the old astronomers ; and as the computed places agreed with those observed within the limits of observation , with the rude instruments then in use , THE SUN . 9.
... his entire revolution among the fixed stars . This was actually done by the old astronomers ; and as the computed places agreed with those observed within the limits of observation , with the rude instruments then in use , THE SUN . 9.
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... computed conjunction : to him who has watched , and waited , and pondered , and computed , the sun must fade away in total eclipse . Such is the train of reasoning and observation which may have first led to the resolution of this great ...
... computed conjunction : to him who has watched , and waited , and pondered , and computed , the sun must fade away in total eclipse . Such is the train of reasoning and observation which may have first led to the resolution of this great ...
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... compute accurately the sun's place among the stars on any day of the year . This computation being made , no instru- ment then in use could detect any difference between the computed place and that actually held by the sun . It was ...
... compute accurately the sun's place among the stars on any day of the year . This computation being made , no instru- ment then in use could detect any difference between the computed place and that actually held by the sun . It was ...
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... compute the intensity of solar light and heat which falls upon the surface of the planet Mercury , in case these be subjected to the same modifying influences which exist upon the earth . But as we remain in ignorance of the ...
... compute the intensity of solar light and heat which falls upon the surface of the planet Mercury , in case these be subjected to the same modifying influences which exist upon the earth . But as we remain in ignorance of the ...
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Sida 220 - ... night, and month and year, till youth shall wear away, and middle age is gone, and the extremest limit of human life has been attained ; count every pulse, and at each speed on your way a hundred thousand miles ; and when a hundred years have rolled by, look out, and behold ! the thronging millions of blazing suns are still around you, each separated from the other by such a distance that in this journey of a century you have only left half a score behind you.
Sida 194 - Then the man sighed, and stopped, and shuddered, and wept. His overladen heart uttered itself in tears; and he said, " Angel, I will go no farther; for the spirit of man acheth with this infinity.
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 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 .during the remainder of my life. The assistance rendered by Madame Lepaute was such, that without her we never should have dared to undertake the enormous...
Sida 194 - And from all the listening stars that shone around issued a choral voice, " The man speaks truly ; end there is none that ever yet we heard of ! " " 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.
Sida 34 - ... closer, until, reaching forward with piercing intellectual vigor, he at last finds a new moon which occurs precisely at the computed time of her passage across the sun's track. Here he makes his stand, and on the day of the occurrence of that new moon he announces to the startled inhabitants of the world that the sun shall expire in dark eclipse.
Sida 220 - ... outward from object to object, from universe to universe, remember that the light from those filmy stains on the deep pure blue of heaven, now falling on your eye, has been traversing space for a million of years. Would you gather some knowledge of the omnipotence of God? weigh the earth on which we dwell, then count the millions of its inhabitants that have come and gone for the last six thousand years. Unite their strength into one arm, and test its power in an effort to move this earth. It...
Sida 265 - Scriptures), that the sun is the centre of the world, and that it does not move from east to west, and that the earth does move, and is not the centre of the world...
Sida 1 - In this boundless field of investigation, human genius has won its most signal victories. Generation after generation has rolled away, age after age has swept silently by; but each has swelled, by its contributions, the stream of discovery.
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.