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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... orbit , formed by the line of apses and a line drawn to the point in which an ordinate passing through the planet's ... moon's orbit which is at the great- est distance from the earth . This term is also frequently applied to the sun ...
... orbit , formed by the line of apses and a line drawn to the point in which an ordinate passing through the planet's ... moon's orbit which is at the great- est distance from the earth . This term is also frequently applied to the sun ...
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... orbits ; and the motions of the other planets will appear direct when the earth is in the opposite part of its orbit with respect to them . Disc , the body or face of the sun or moon as it appears to a spectator on the earth ; or of the ...
... orbits ; and the motions of the other planets will appear direct when the earth is in the opposite part of its orbit with respect to them . Disc , the body or face of the sun or moon as it appears to a spectator on the earth ; or of the ...
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... moon . Eclipse . When any secondary planet passes through the shadow of its primary , it ... orbit , beyond which no eclipse can happen . This limit with respect to a ... moon's age at the beginning of the year , which may be found by the ...
... moon . Eclipse . When any secondary planet passes through the shadow of its primary , it ... orbit , beyond which no eclipse can happen . This limit with respect to a ... moon's age at the beginning of the year , which may be found by the ...
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... moon , a small apparent libratory motion , arising chiefly from her equable rotation round her axis , combined with her unequal motion in her orbit . Longitude of a place on the earth , an arch of the equator in- tercepted between the ...
... moon , a small apparent libratory motion , arising chiefly from her equable rotation round her axis , combined with her unequal motion in her orbit . Longitude of a place on the earth , an arch of the equator in- tercepted between the ...
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... Moon , the satellite or secondary of the Earth , at the dis- tance of about 240 thousand miles . Nadir , the lower pole of the horizon . Nodes of a planet's orbit , those two points in which it cros- ses the ecliptic . That in which the ...
... Moon , the satellite or secondary of the Earth , at the dis- tance of about 240 thousand miles . Nadir , the lower pole of the horizon . Nodes of a planet's orbit , those two points in which it cros- ses the ecliptic . That in which the ...
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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 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 Sun's parallax suppose tides tion total ingress transit transit of Venus tropic tropic of Cancer tropic of Capricorn true turns round Venus Venus's visible
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