The Geography of the Heavens, and Class Book of Astronomy: Accompanied by a Celestial Atlas |
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... planetary globes a thousand times larger than the earth - magnificent rings which would nearly reach from the earth to the moon , and would enclose within their vast circumference 500 worlds as large as ours - suns a million times ...
... planetary globes a thousand times larger than the earth - magnificent rings which would nearly reach from the earth to the moon , and would enclose within their vast circumference 500 worlds as large as ours - suns a million times ...
Page xvi
... planets in their wide career - to behold them running their ample rounds with velocities forty times swifter than a ... planet at the rate of a thousand miles in a minute , and displaying their radiance and majestic movements to an ...
... planets in their wide career - to behold them running their ample rounds with velocities forty times swifter than a ... planet at the rate of a thousand miles in a minute , and displaying their radiance and majestic movements to an ...
Page xviii
... planetary orbits , and the anomalies thence arising , the muta- tion of the earth's axis , the causes of the seasons , the difficulty of reconciling the apparent motions of the planets with their real mo- tions in circular or elliptical ...
... planetary orbits , and the anomalies thence arising , the muta- tion of the earth's axis , the causes of the seasons , the difficulty of reconciling the apparent motions of the planets with their real mo- tions in circular or elliptical ...
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... planets in their several courses , and the moon walking in her brightness among the host of stars- they should be indulged with views of the rings of Saturn , the belts and satellites of Jupiter , the phases of Mercury and Venus , the ...
... planets in their several courses , and the moon walking in her brightness among the host of stars- they should be indulged with views of the rings of Saturn , the belts and satellites of Jupiter , the phases of Mercury and Venus , the ...
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... planets , except some of the asteroids , since they are never seen beyond 80 either north or south of the ecliptic . Parallels of Latitude are small circles imagined to be What are the poles of the horizon ? What are vertical circles ...
... planets , except some of the asteroids , since they are never seen beyond 80 either north or south of the ecliptic . Parallels of Latitude are small circles imagined to be What are the poles of the horizon ? What are vertical circles ...
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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