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Page xvi
... contain an extent of territory more than two thousand times larger than our world - that the sun himself is more than 500 times larger than the whole , and that , although they were all at this mo- ment buried in oblivion , they would ...
... contain an extent of territory more than two thousand times larger than our world - that the sun himself is more than 500 times larger than the whole , and that , although they were all at this mo- ment buried in oblivion , they would ...
Page xix
... contains a mass of matter ten hundred thousand times greater ? What is it in comparison of the hundred millions of suns and worlds which the telescope has descried throughout the starry egions , or of that infinity of worlds which ...
... contains a mass of matter ten hundred thousand times greater ? What is it in comparison of the hundred millions of suns and worlds which the telescope has descried throughout the starry egions , or of that infinity of worlds which ...
Page xxiii
... contain , not merely descriptions of facts , to be received on the authority of the author or the instructer , but illustrations of the reasons or argu ments on which the conclusions of astronomy are founded , and of the modes by which ...
... contain , not merely descriptions of facts , to be received on the authority of the author or the instructer , but illustrations of the reasons or argu ments on which the conclusions of astronomy are founded , and of the modes by which ...
Page xxiv
... contains , in the first place , a full and interesting description of all the con- stellations , and principal stars ... containing a lucid exhibition of the facts which have been ascer- tained respecting them , and a rational ...
... contains , in the first place , a full and interesting description of all the con- stellations , and principal stars ... containing a lucid exhibition of the facts which have been ascer- tained respecting them , and a rational ...
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... contain . A constellation may be defined to be a cluster or group of stars embraced in the outline of some figure . These figures are in many cases , creations of the imagination , but in others , the stars are in reality so arranged as ...
... contain . A constellation may be defined to be a cluster or group of stars embraced in the outline of some figure . These figures are in many cases , creations of the imagination , but in others , the stars are in reality so arranged as ...
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3d magnitude 4th magnitude ancient angle appear Arcturus Argo Navis Aries astronomers Auriga axis Beta brightest called Cassiopeia celestial centre Cepheus circle cluster colure comet constellation Cor Caroli declination degree Denebola diameter direction distinguished diurnal motion Earth east ecliptic equal equator equinoctial figure fixed stars Gamma globe head heavenly bodies heavens Hercules Herschel horizon Jupiter latitude length Libra light longitude luminous Mars mean distance Mercury meridian millions of miles minutes Moon Moon's motion naked eye nearly nebulæ night node north pole northern hemisphere o'clock observed orbit Orion parallax passing perihelion period Perseus phenomena planets Pleiades polar star principal star represented revolution revolve right ascension rise satellites Saturn seasons seen side sidereal Sirius situated small stars solar system solstice southern spots square Sun's supposed surface Taurus telescope tion triangle Ursa Venus vernal equinox Virgo visible whole number Zeta Zodiac