Elements of Astronomy, Descriptive and Physical: In which the General Phenomena of the Heavenly Bodies and the Theory of the Tides are Familiarly Explained, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams from Engravings on Copper Plates ... Intended for Schools, Academies, Seminaries for Young Ladies, Lyceums, and for Private Reading |
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... name of Ptolemaic , but which was a mere accommodation of the science to the popular pre- judices of the illiterate multitude . It supposed the Earth at rest in the centre of the Universe , with all the other material worlds revolving ...
... name of Ptolemaic , but which was a mere accommodation of the science to the popular pre- judices of the illiterate multitude . It supposed the Earth at rest in the centre of the Universe , with all the other material worlds revolving ...
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... names of the planets are Mercury , Venus , Earth , Mars , Jupiter , Saturn , and Herschel ; with four small ones , called Asteroids , named Ceres , Pallas , Juno , and Vesta . These are called primaries , and there are also eighteen ...
... names of the planets are Mercury , Venus , Earth , Mars , Jupiter , Saturn , and Herschel ; with four small ones , called Asteroids , named Ceres , Pallas , Juno , and Vesta . These are called primaries , and there are also eighteen ...
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... names assigned to them . As the moon always presents nearly the same side to the Earth , and has an atmosphere only 14 miles high , the mountains and cavities can be measured . See a beautiful and accurate telescopic map , Plate i ...
... names assigned to them . As the moon always presents nearly the same side to the Earth , and has an atmosphere only 14 miles high , the mountains and cavities can be measured . See a beautiful and accurate telescopic map , Plate i ...
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... names are Ceres , Pallas , Juno , and Vesta . Their real magnitudes are not yet accurately ascertained ; they are estimated from 80 miles , to 2000 miles , in diameter . Probably neither of them is 1500 miles in diameter . Their density ...
... names are Ceres , Pallas , Juno , and Vesta . Their real magnitudes are not yet accurately ascertained ; they are estimated from 80 miles , to 2000 miles , in diameter . Probably neither of them is 1500 miles in diameter . Their density ...
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... name it deservedly bears . It is like a star of the sixth magnitude to the naked eye , and seems slightly tinged with blue . Its apparent dia- meter is only 4 seconds , and its real diameter 35 thousand miles . Its density is equal to ...
... name it deservedly bears . It is like a star of the sixth magnitude to the naked eye , and seems slightly tinged with blue . Its apparent dia- meter is only 4 seconds , and its real diameter 35 thousand miles . Its density is equal to ...
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95 millions A M Total ABERRATION OF LIGHT altitude angle annular annular eclipse aphelion apparent diameter Aries Astronomy atmosphere attraction brass meridian called Capricornus celestial centre century CHAPTER comets constellations degrees density disc Dominical letter double stars Earth's axis east elevated equal Equator fixed stars given place heavenly bodies heavens Herschel horizon Jupiter Latitude less longest Longitude luminary luminous lunar eclipses magnitude Mars material worlds mean distance Mercury miles the hour millions of miles minutes Moon's moral motion nearest nodes observed opposite orbit organs of vision parallax perihelion period planets pole primary reckoned refraction revolution revolves round right ascension rotation round the Sun satellites Saturn set the index siderial solar eclipse solstice southern hemisphere Sun's place supposed surface tance telescope thousand miles tides tion torrid zone transit of Venus true place turn the globe twilight velocity vernal equinox visible Zodiac
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Page 108 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 140 - Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat.
Page 2 - 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 105 - Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
Page 63 - evidence of things not seen," in the fulness of Divine grace ; and was profound on this, the greatest concern of human life, while unable even to comprehend how the " inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit" could be the cause of the change of the seasons.
Page 119 - 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 26 - THERE is not, perhaps, 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...
Page 84 - The squares of the periods of revolution of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Page 69 - In northern Latitudes, the smallest angle made by the Ecliptic and horizon, is when Aries rises, at which time Libra sets ; the greatest, when Libra rises, at which time Aries sets.
Page 2 - In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;