The Geography of the Heavens, and Class Book of Astronomy: Accompanied by a Celestial Atlas |
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Accompanied by a Celestial Atlas Elijah Hinsdale Burritt. revolve around it as a centre , and derive from it light and heat , and the agreeable vicissitudes of day and night . These vast globes of light , then , could never have been de ...
Accompanied by a Celestial Atlas Elijah Hinsdale Burritt. revolve around it as a centre , and derive from it light and heat , and the agreeable vicissitudes of day and night . These vast globes of light , then , could never have been de ...
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... revolve around it . He seems to have entertained an idea in regard to the supposition , that the Earth revolved on its axis , similar to one which some entertain even at the pre- sent day . " If , " says he , " there were any motion of ...
... revolve around it . He seems to have entertained an idea in regard to the supposition , that the Earth revolved on its axis , similar to one which some entertain even at the pre- sent day . " If , " says he , " there were any motion of ...
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... revolve around him as a centre , and with the system of Ap- pollonius Pergæus , who made all the planets revolve around the Sun , while the Sun and Moon were carried around the Earth in the centre of the universe . The examination ...
... revolve around him as a centre , and with the system of Ap- pollonius Pergæus , who made all the planets revolve around the Sun , while the Sun and Moon were carried around the Earth in the centre of the universe . The examination ...
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... revolve around a body com- paratively insignificant . Near the close of the 15th century , arose two men , who wrought most important changes in the science , Kepler , and Galileo , the former a German , the latter an Italian . Previous ...
... revolve around a body com- paratively insignificant . Near the close of the 15th century , arose two men , who wrought most important changes in the science , Kepler , and Galileo , the former a German , the latter an Italian . Previous ...
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... revolve around the Earth . He was next led to suppose that perhaps the same power carried the primary planets around the Sun. By a series of calculations , he was enabled at length to establish the fact , that the same force which ...
... revolve around the Earth . He was next led to suppose that perhaps the same power carried the primary planets around the Sun. By a series of calculations , he was enabled at length to establish the fact , that the same force which ...
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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