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Page xiii
... miles around . But astronomy has put to flight such ter- rific phantoms and groundless alarms , by unfolding to us the true causes of all such phenomena , and showing us that they happen in exact conformity with those invariable laws by ...
... miles around . But astronomy has put to flight such ter- rific phantoms and groundless alarms , by unfolding to us the true causes of all such phenomena , and showing us that they happen in exact conformity with those invariable laws by ...
Page xv
... miles an hour , performing circuits more than three thousand millions of miles in circumference , and carrying along with them a retinue of revolving worlds in their swift career ; nay , motions , at the rate of 880,000 miles an hour ...
... miles an hour , performing circuits more than three thousand millions of miles in circumference , and carrying along with them a retinue of revolving worlds in their swift career ; nay , motions , at the rate of 880,000 miles an hour ...
Page xvi
... miles in a minute , and displaying their radiance and majestic movements to an admiring population - to add scene to scene , and magnitude to magnitude , till the mind acquire an ample conception of such august objects to dive into the ...
... miles in a minute , and displaying their radiance and majestic movements to an admiring population - to add scene to scene , and magnitude to magnitude , till the mind acquire an ample conception of such august objects to dive into the ...
Page 26
... miles and three quarters ; if the eye be elevated six feet , it will be just three miles . The observer being always in the centre of the sensible horizon , it will move as he moves , and enlarge or contract , as his station is elevated ...
... miles and three quarters ; if the eye be elevated six feet , it will be just three miles . The observer being always in the centre of the sensible horizon , it will move as he moves , and enlarge or contract , as his station is elevated ...
Page 45
... miles , where he is , on a boundless ocean , cannot but appear to persons ignorant of physical astronoiny , an approach to the miraculous . And yet , says he , the alternatives of life and death , wealth and ruin , are daily and hourly ...
... miles , where he is , on a boundless ocean , cannot but appear to persons ignorant of physical astronoiny , an approach to the miraculous . And yet , says he , the alternatives of life and death , wealth and ruin , are daily and hourly ...
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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