Popular Astronomy, And, The Orbs of HeavenG. Routledge and Sons, 1860 |
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... transit of Venus . - The Sun's actual Diameter and real Magni- tude . - His Rotation . - The Solar Spots . -Their Periodicity.— Speculations as to the Physical Constitution of the Sun ...... Page 1 CHAPTER II . MERCURY , THE FIRST ...
... transit of Venus . - The Sun's actual Diameter and real Magni- tude . - His Rotation . - The Solar Spots . -Their Periodicity.— Speculations as to the Physical Constitution of the Sun ...... Page 1 CHAPTER II . MERCURY , THE FIRST ...
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... Transit - Instrument . -Adjustments . - Instrumental Errors . - Corrections due to various Causes . - American Method of Transits . - Meridian - Circle . - The Declinometer Page 164 CHAPTER XII . URANUS , THE EIGHTH PLANET IN THE ORDER ...
... Transit - Instrument . -Adjustments . - Instrumental Errors . - Corrections due to various Causes . - American Method of Transits . - Meridian - Circle . - The Declinometer Page 164 CHAPTER XII . URANUS , THE EIGHTH PLANET IN THE ORDER ...
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... transit of Venus . - The Sun's actual Diameter and real Magnitude . - His Rota- tion . The Solar Spots . - Their Periodicity . - Speculations as to the Physical Constitution of the Sun. THE Sun is beyond comparison the grandest of all ...
... transit of Venus . - The Sun's actual Diameter and real Magnitude . - His Rota- tion . The Solar Spots . - Their Periodicity . - Speculations as to the Physical Constitution of the Sun. THE Sun is beyond comparison the grandest of all ...
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... transit of Venus in the measurement of the solar parallax , arising from the fact that modern science has obtained a very exact knowledge of the relative velocity of Venus across the solar disc . Α B { B B If we note , then , exactly ...
... transit of Venus in the measurement of the solar parallax , arising from the fact that modern science has obtained a very exact knowledge of the relative velocity of Venus across the solar disc . Α B { B B If we note , then , exactly ...
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... transit of Venus , governmental expeditions were fitted out at great expense , and observers were dis- patched to points on the earth's surface as far asunder as possible , each observer noting , with every precaution , the exact time ...
... transit of Venus , governmental expeditions were fitted out at great expense , and observers were dis- patched to points on the earth's surface as far asunder as possible , each observer noting , with every precaution , the exact time ...
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Popular Astronomy, And, The Orbs of Heaven Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1860 |
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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.