The Geography of the Heavens: And Class-book of Astronomy : Accompanied by a Celestial Atlas |
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... Equinoctial , is the great circle formed on the concave surface of the heavens , by producing the plane of the Earth's equator . A plane is that which has surface but not thickness . The plane of a circle is that ima- ginary superficies ...
... Equinoctial , is the great circle formed on the concave surface of the heavens , by producing the plane of the Earth's equator . A plane is that which has surface but not thickness . The plane of a circle is that ima- ginary superficies ...
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... Equinoctial , a little obliquely , in two oppo- site points , which are called the Equinoxes . The Sun rises in one of these points on the 21st of March ; this point is called the Vernal Equinox . It sets in the opposite point on the ...
... Equinoctial , a little obliquely , in two oppo- site points , which are called the Equinoxes . The Sun rises in one of these points on the 21st of March ; this point is called the Vernal Equinox . It sets in the opposite point on the ...
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... equinoctial , and parallel to it ; or they may be considered as circles formed by producing the parallels of latitude to the heavens . 13. The Tropic of Cancer is a small circle , which lies 234 ° north of the Equinoctial , and parallel ...
... equinoctial , and parallel to it ; or they may be considered as circles formed by producing the parallels of latitude to the heavens . 13. The Tropic of Cancer is a small circle , which lies 234 ° north of the Equinoctial , and parallel ...
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... equinoctial , and that great meridian which passes through the first point of Aries , called the equinoctial colure . 17. Latitude on the Eurth , is distance north or south of the equator , and is measured on the meridian . Latitude in ...
... equinoctial , and that great meridian which passes through the first point of Aries , called the equinoctial colure . 17. Latitude on the Eurth , is distance north or south of the equator , and is measured on the meridian . Latitude in ...
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... equinoctial and parallel to it , are called Parallels of Declination . Those which are drawn up and down through the maps , at intervals of 15 ° , are called Meridians of Right Ascension , or Hour Circles . The scale at the top and ...
... equinoctial and parallel to it , are called Parallels of Declination . Those which are drawn up and down through the maps , at intervals of 15 ° , are called Meridians of Right Ascension , or Hour Circles . The scale at the top and ...
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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.