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Page 149
... miles , and endeavor , by a simple process in mathematics , to ascertain how many measures of this length are contained in the mighty interval which separates us from the stars . The method of doing this can be explained to the ...
... miles , and endeavor , by a simple process in mathematics , to ascertain how many measures of this length are contained in the mighty interval which separates us from the stars . The method of doing this can be explained to the ...
Page 150
... miles from the sun , which makes the star's distance a very little less than twenty billions of miles . Dr. Herschel says that Sirius cannot be nearer than 100,000 times the diameter of the earth's orbit , or 19,007,788,800,000 of miles ...
... miles from the sun , which makes the star's distance a very little less than twenty billions of miles . Dr. Herschel says that Sirius cannot be nearer than 100,000 times the diameter of the earth's orbit , or 19,007,788,800,000 of miles ...
Page 151
... miles in diameter . 283. We may pretty safely affirm , then , that stars of the sixth magnitude are not less than nine hundred millions of millions of miles distant from us ; or a million of times farther from us than the planet Saturn ...
... miles in diameter . 283. We may pretty safely affirm , then , that stars of the sixth magnitude are not less than nine hundred millions of millions of miles distant from us ; or a million of times farther from us than the planet Saturn ...
Page 153
... miles per second , or 28,000 miles per hour . His period is about 18,200,000 years ; and the arc of his orbit , over which he has traveled since the creation of the world , amounts to only about th part of his orbit , or about 7 minutes ...
... miles per second , or 28,000 miles per hour . His period is about 18,200,000 years ; and the arc of his orbit , over which he has traveled since the creation of the world , amounts to only about th part of his orbit , or about 7 minutes ...
Page 159
... mile ; if at the distance of 11 miles , its diame- ter was 528 feet ; and if only one mile A LARGE METEOR . off , it must have been 48 feet in diameter . These considerations leave no doubt that many of the meteors were bodies of large ...
... mile ; if at the distance of 11 miles , its diame- ter was 528 feet ; and if only one mile A LARGE METEOR . off , it must have been 48 feet in diameter . These considerations leave no doubt that many of the meteors were bodies of large ...
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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.