The midnight sky, notes on the stars and planets, Volumen231869 |
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... easily admit of correction , the same remark holds good of the whole of Great Britain . In the sky - views of London , the observer is supposed to be looking north , directly over St. Paul's Cathedral , and looking south over Greenwich ...
... easily admit of correction , the same remark holds good of the whole of Great Britain . In the sky - views of London , the observer is supposed to be looking north , directly over St. Paul's Cathedral , and looking south over Greenwich ...
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... easily perceived that , after the diagrams of the southern hemisphere have served their purpose as guides to the star - watcher at an Australian midnight , they will , eight or nine hours afterwards , be equally available for a Cape of ...
... easily perceived that , after the diagrams of the southern hemisphere have served their purpose as guides to the star - watcher at an Australian midnight , they will , eight or nine hours afterwards , be equally available for a Cape of ...
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... easily to be distinguished . The reader will find the index - maps a considerable assistance to him for the proper elucidation of the large diagrams , independently of the descriptive explanatory notes . In the preparation of the index ...
... easily to be distinguished . The reader will find the index - maps a considerable assistance to him for the proper elucidation of the large diagrams , independently of the descriptive explanatory notes . In the preparation of the index ...
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... easily . First , however , let us find our meridian by means of Polaris . While we have , in fact , been noticing this star , we have been unconsciously looking along the plane of the meridian , north of the zenith . As the meridian ...
... easily . First , however , let us find our meridian by means of Polaris . While we have , in fact , been noticing this star , we have been unconsciously looking along the plane of the meridian , north of the zenith . As the meridian ...
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... easily seen , being rather conspicuous on account of the absence of any object of equal magnitude within a considerable distance around . The principal constellations above the horizon in this quarter of the sky at this time , are ...
... easily seen , being rather conspicuous on account of the absence of any object of equal magnitude within a considerable distance around . The principal constellations above the horizon in this quarter of the sky at this time , are ...
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aërolites Aldebaran Alpha Alpherat Andromeda appearance Aquarius Aquila Arcturus Argo Navis astronomers Auriga Australis Beta Beta Auriga Betelgeuse bolide Boötes bright stars brilliant Canis Canis Minor Capella Cassiopeia Castor celestial Centaurus Cepheus chief stars colour comet constellation Cor Caroli Corona Borealis Crux Australis Cygni Cygnus dark diagram diameter direction disk distance double stars Draco Draconis Earth east Eridanus fixed stars Gamma Gamma Pegasi heavens INDEX-MAP John Herschel Jupiter Kocab latitude light looking north Lyra meridian meteors midnight sky miles Milky Moon motion naked eye nearly nebula northern noticed objects observed occupied Ophiuchus orbit Orion pass Pegasus Perseus planet Polaris pole Pollux portion position principal stars Procyon Regulus remarkable Scorpio second magnitude seen Sir John Herschel Sirius small constellation small stars solar south horizon southern hemisphere spectrum Spica stellar Taurus telescope third magnitude Ursa Major Ursa Minor Vega Venus Virgo visible zenith zodiac
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Página 131 - 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?
Página 223 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 313 - Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens and stretched them out ; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein...
Página 313 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Página 313 - The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
Página 313 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Página 100 - It is a time-piece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day, and no other group of stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an observation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim in the savannahs of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, 'Midnight is past, the Cross begins to bend!
Página 313 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing ; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Página 315 - ... insecurity. We differ from the leaf only in this circumstance, that it would require the operation of greater elements to destroy us. But these elements exist. The fire which rages within may lift its devouring energy to the surface of our planet, and transform it into one wide and wasting volcano.
Página 315 - A breath of wind tears it from its stem, and it lights on the stream of water which passes underneath. In a moment of time the life, which we know by the microscope it teems with, is extinguished ; and an occurrence so insignificant in the eye of man, and...