The Geography of the Heavens: And Class-book of Astronomy : Accompanied by a Celestial Atlas |
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... appear on a clear evening , are the first objects that demand our attention . Our first step is to learn the names and positions of the heavenly bodies , so that we can identify , and distinguish them from each other . In this manner ...
... appear on a clear evening , are the first objects that demand our attention . Our first step is to learn the names and positions of the heavenly bodies , so that we can identify , and distinguish them from each other . In this manner ...
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... appear to meet . To a person standing on a plain , this circle is but a few miles in diameter . If the eye be ... appears to describe annually among the stars . It crosses the Equinoctial , a little obliquely , in two oppo- site points ...
... appear to meet . To a person standing on a plain , this circle is but a few miles in diameter . If the eye be ... appears to describe annually among the stars . It crosses the Equinoctial , a little obliquely , in two oppo- site points ...
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... appear to describe , every hour , for the 24 hours of the day . They are thence sometimes denominated Hour Circles . In measuring distances and determining positions on the Earth , the equator and some fixed meridian , as that of ...
... appear to describe , every hour , for the 24 hours of the day . They are thence sometimes denominated Hour Circles . In measuring distances and determining positions on the Earth , the equator and some fixed meridian , as that of ...
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... appears as a unit under the most powerful telescopes . Double , triple , and multiple stars , are those that appear single to the naked eye , but by the aid of telescopes are found to consist of two or more stars . Binary stars are ...
... appears as a unit under the most powerful telescopes . Double , triple , and multiple stars , are those that appear single to the naked eye , but by the aid of telescopes are found to consist of two or more stars . Binary stars are ...
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... appear , is not so easily determined by those who are just entering upon this study , as that of some others . For this reason , the point directly overhead , called the zenith , is preferable , since upon this point every one can fix ...
... appear , is not so easily determined by those who are just entering upon this study , as that of some others . For this reason , the point directly overhead , called the zenith , is preferable , since upon this point every one can fix ...
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3d magnitude 4th magnitude angle aphelion appear Arcturus Aries astronomers Auriga axis Beta blue bright star called celestial Cepheus circle cluster comet constellation Cor Caroli declination degree Delta Denebola diameter distant companion diurnal motion DOUBLE STAR Earth Earth's orbit east ecliptic equator equinoctial figure fixed stars Gamma head heavens hemisphere Herschel horizon Jupiter latitude light longitude luminous Map VIII mean distance Mercury meridian miles minutes Moon Moon's motion naked eye nearly NEBULA node north pole northern Number of stars o'clock observed Orion pale yellow parallax pass perihelion period planet Pleiades polar position principal star Refracting telescopes refraction remarkable represented revolution revolve right ascension rising satellites Saturn seen shadow sidereal Sirius situated small stars solstice southern Sun's supposed surface Taurus TELESCOPIC OBJECTS TELESCOPIC OBJECTS.-Alpha tides tion triangle TRIPLE STAR Ursa Ursa Major Venus vernal equinox visible Zeta Zodiac
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Page 114 - Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines* of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim: Such harmony is in immortal souls; . But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
Page 157 - ... and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Page 152 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 147 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 143 - To God's eternal house direct the way, A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.
Page 49 - The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot, like a falling star, That in a summer's evening from the top Of heaven drops down, or seems at least to drop ; Till on the Po his blasted corpse was hurl'd, Far from his country, in the western world.
Page 47 - Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Page 155 - And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming stars fall headlong from the skies, And, shooting through the darkness, gild the night With sweeping glories, and long trails of light...
Page 94 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Page 79 - The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsully'd breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol, Soft as the swan ; a large and lovely fowl ; His tongue, his prating tongue had chang'd him quite To sooty blackness from the purest white.