The Geography of the Heavens, and Class Book of Astronomy: Accompanied by a Celestial Atlas |
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Page iv
... to the pupil - taking advantage of those Ivious and more striking features that serve to identify and to distinguish them from all others . Now if these verbal instructions be committed to wri ting and placed in the hands of any other ...
... to the pupil - taking advantage of those Ivious and more striking features that serve to identify and to distinguish them from all others . Now if these verbal instructions be committed to wri ting and placed in the hands of any other ...
Page v
... hands of each individual in a class at the same time , but a globe cannot be . The student may conveniently hold them before his eye to guide his survey of the heavens , but a globe he cannot . There is not a conspicuous star in the ...
... hands of each individual in a class at the same time , but a globe cannot be . The student may conveniently hold them before his eye to guide his survey of the heavens , but a globe he cannot . There is not a conspicuous star in the ...
Page xxii
... hand are pleasures for ever more . " 7. The science of astronomy is a study which will be prosecuted without intermission in the eternal world . This may be inferred from what has been already stated . For , it is chiefly among the ...
... hand are pleasures for ever more . " 7. The science of astronomy is a study which will be prosecuted without intermission in the eternal world . This may be inferred from what has been already stated . For , it is chiefly among the ...
Page 32
... hand side of the map will then be west , and the left hand east . In using the circumpolar maps he must suppose himself to face the pole , and to hold them in such a manner that the day of the given month shall be up- permost . The ...
... hand side of the map will then be west , and the left hand east . In using the circumpolar maps he must suppose himself to face the pole , and to hold them in such a manner that the day of the given month shall be up- permost . The ...
Page 36
... hand . The enraged Phineus opposed their nuptials and a violent battle ensued , in which he , also , was turned into a stone by the petrifying influence of the Gorgon's head . The morals , maxims , and historical events of the ancients ...
... hand . The enraged Phineus opposed their nuptials and a violent battle ensued , in which he , also , was turned into a stone by the petrifying influence of the Gorgon's head . The morals , maxims , and historical events of the ancients ...
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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