Considerations on the Substance of the SunMetropolis of the United States of America: Printed by Way and Groff, September, 1801 - Sun - 87 pages |
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... planetary spheres of electron and there you have " a perfect and living orrery . " The University of Michigan takes pride in the equipment and results obtained at the McMath - Hulbert Observatory , which has become a twentieth - century ...
... planetary spheres of electron and there you have " a perfect and living orrery . " The University of Michigan takes pride in the equipment and results obtained at the McMath - Hulbert Observatory , which has become a twentieth - century ...
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... planets were inhabited ; that the comets were eccentric ftars , vifible in the inferior parts of their crbits , and invifible in the fuperior ; that the galaxy confifted of a great number of 18 . Opinions of Democritus 19 . Opinion of ...
... planets were inhabited ; that the comets were eccentric ftars , vifible in the inferior parts of their crbits , and invifible in the fuperior ; that the galaxy confifted of a great number of 18 . Opinions of Democritus 19 . Opinion of ...
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... planets , were in cer- tain harmonic proportions to one another . Pythagoras is not said to have left any precise dictum as to the fubftance of the Sun. His belief however that the Sun was placed in the centre of the fyftem , authorizes ...
... planets , were in cer- tain harmonic proportions to one another . Pythagoras is not said to have left any precise dictum as to the fubftance of the Sun. His belief however that the Sun was placed in the centre of the fyftem , authorizes ...
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... planets . In short the word vortex , in the hands of Des Cartes , was the key to unlock all the fecrets of nature . On the basis of two pofitions , he attempted to erect the fuperftructure of all reafoning and all fcience . One of thefe ...
... planets . In short the word vortex , in the hands of Des Cartes , was the key to unlock all the fecrets of nature . On the basis of two pofitions , he attempted to erect the fuperftructure of all reafoning and all fcience . One of thefe ...
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... planetary bodies in our fyftem , two new fatellites to a primary before known , and a new primary attended by two new fatellites , has in rendering that effential service to science , given immortal- ity to his own name . Like his ...
... planetary bodies in our fyftem , two new fatellites to a primary before known , and a new primary attended by two new fatellites , has in rendering that effential service to science , given immortal- ity to his own name . Like his ...
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Page 31 - Leyden, of much eminence, said that " he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulders, and breast, so that he lost his breath ; and it was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow and the terror ; adding, that he would not take a second shock for the kingdom of France.
Page 69 - ... inches long, held in the hand, over the centre « of the cake, will, of itfelf, begin to move in a circle, « round the iron globe, and conftantly from weft to eaft.
Page 69 - ... as the distance of the globe from the centre of the cake. If the cake of rosin be of an elliptical form, and the iron globe be placed in the centre of it, the light body will describe an elliptical orbit of the same excentricity with the form of the Cake.
Page 36 - ... bonds, and round and round him gazed ; Starts up from earth above the admiring throng Lifts his colossal form and towers along ; High o'er his foes his hundred arms he rears, Plowshares his swords and pruning hooks his spears ; Calls to the good and brave with voice that rolls Like Heaven's own thunder round the echoing poles ; Gives to the winds his banner broad unfurl'd, And gathers in its shade the living world...
Page 34 - O'er the young Sage your mystic mantle spread, And wreath'd the crown electric round his head.— Thus when on wanton wing intrepid LOVE 390 Snatch'd the raised lightning from the arm of JOVE; Quick o'er his knee the triple bolt He bent, The cluster'd darts and forky arrows rent, Snapp'd with illumin'd hands each flaming shaft, His tingling fingers shook, and stamp'd, and laugh'd...
Page 69 - To this should be added the following description of the manner in which these experiments can be made : " Place a small iron globe, of an inch or an inch and a half in diameter, on the middle of a circular cake of...
Page 69 - ... and thofe either concentric or eccentric to the centre of the large body about which they move, fo as to make many revolutions about them. And this motion will conftantly be the fame way that the planets move about the fun, viz. from the right hand to the left, or from weft to eaft. But thefe little planets, if I may fo call them, move much fafter in their apogeon than in the perigeon parts of their orbits ; which is directly contrary to the motion of the planets about the fun.
Page 21 - No objection, says he, ariseth to that great luminary being inhabited ; vegetation may obtain there, as well as with us. There may be water and dry land, hills and dales, rain and fair weather, and as the light, so the season, must be eternal, consequently it may easily be conceived to be by far the most blissful habitation of the whole system.