Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles: And Made Easy to Those who Have Not Studied Mathematics : to which are Added, a Plain Method of Finding the Distances of All the Planets from the Sun, by the Transit of Venus Over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761 : an Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of the Transit of Venus in the Year 1639 : And, of the Distances of All the Planets from the Sun, as Deduced from Observations of the Transit in the Year 1761 |
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... sun , moon , or stars , round the earth . The day is variously distinguished and denominated , according to circumstances , as follows : - 1. An artificial day , is the interval of time between sun- rising and sun - setting ; and thus ...
... sun , moon , or stars , round the earth . The day is variously distinguished and denominated , according to circumstances , as follows : - 1. An artificial day , is the interval of time between sun- rising and sun - setting ; and thus ...
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... Sun, by the Transit of Venus Over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761 : an Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of James Ferguson Robert Patterson. perform a diurnal rotation round their axes ; and that the moon ... Sun .---- It is however ...
... Sun, by the Transit of Venus Over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761 : an Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of James Ferguson Robert Patterson. perform a diurnal rotation round their axes ; and that the moon ... Sun .---- It is however ...
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... Sun, by the Transit of Venus Over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761 : an Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of James ... Moon , ยท IX . The Method of finding the Distances of the Sun , Moon , and Planets , X. The Circles of the Globe ...
... Sun, by the Transit of Venus Over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761 : an Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of James ... Moon , ยท IX . The Method of finding the Distances of the Sun , Moon , and Planets , X. The Circles of the Globe ...
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... Sun, by the Transit of Venus Over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761 : an Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of James Ferguson Robert Patterson. pear behind the Moon , retain their full lustre until they seem to touch her very edge , and ...
... Sun, by the Transit of Venus Over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761 : an Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of James Ferguson Robert Patterson. pear behind the Moon , retain their full lustre until they seem to touch her very edge , and ...
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... Sun, by the Transit of Venus Over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761 : an Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of James Ferguson Robert Patterson. Nor seas . of caverns pits . 59. If there were seas in the Moon , she could have no clouds ...
... Sun, by the Transit of Venus Over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761 : an Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of James Ferguson Robert Patterson. Nor seas . of caverns pits . 59. If there were seas in the Moon , she could have no clouds ...
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angle appears April Aries ascending node beginning of egress body circle Clock conjunction degrees diameter diurnal diurnal motion Dominical letter Earth's axis Earth's centre eclipse equal equator equinoctial equinox fixed stars full Moon globe goes round half heavens horizon horizontal parallax inclined Julian period July June Jupiter latitude Leap-Year London longitude lunar lunation March mean Anomaly mean distance mean new Moon Mercury meridian miles minutes Moon's orbit motion noon north pole observed opposite parallel path penumbra planets plate polar circles revolution right line rising round the Earth round the Sun satellites Saturn seconds seen semidiameter Sept shewn side signs solar south pole subtract Sun and Moon Sun's centre Sun's disc Sun's mean suppose tides tion total ingress transit transit of Venus tropic tropic of Cancer tropic of Capricorn true turns round Venus Venus's