Celestial Objects for Common TelescopesLongmans, Green, 1873 - 343 páginas |
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... curiosity , but of a more extensive knowledge of the works of the Almighty . So new an aspect as has thus been given to the material uni- verse - so amazing a disclosure as has thus been permitted to man , of the vastness of his Maker's ...
... curiosity , but of a more extensive knowledge of the works of the Almighty . So new an aspect as has thus been given to the material uni- verse - so amazing a disclosure as has thus been permitted to man , of the vastness of his Maker's ...
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... curiosity , but indications of a mighty force , one of the prime laws of the universe . ‡ The revelations of the spectroscope , which have demon- - • The late lamented President of the Astronomical Society , Mr. Johnson , thus refers to ...
... curiosity , but indications of a mighty force , one of the prime laws of the universe . ‡ The revelations of the spectroscope , which have demon- - • The late lamented President of the Astronomical Society , Mr. Johnson , thus refers to ...
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... curiosity , as well as their being seldom referred to . Dr. Long , who published a Treatise on Astronomy in 1764 , states that he , ' many years since , while he was viewing the image of the Sun , cast through a telescope upon white ...
... curiosity , as well as their being seldom referred to . Dr. Long , who published a Treatise on Astronomy in 1764 , states that he , ' many years since , while he was viewing the image of the Sun , cast through a telescope upon white ...
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... of that unique and most curious observation . This astronomer has left three volumes of drawings of the solar spots , commencing just in time for our present purpose Juny 1819 8:26 Fleck Cund Dr 26 Jung 1819 836 38 THE SOLAR SYSTEM .
... of that unique and most curious observation . This astronomer has left three volumes of drawings of the solar spots , commencing just in time for our present purpose Juny 1819 8:26 Fleck Cund Dr 26 Jung 1819 836 38 THE SOLAR SYSTEM .
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... curious pha- nomenon is so easily seen , that I perceived it with an inferior fluid achromatic , on Barlow's plan , 1833 , March 6 , before I knew that it had been noticed by others . 2. The Mountainous Surface . La Hire , in 1700 ...
... curious pha- nomenon is so easily seen , that I perceived it with an inferior fluid achromatic , on Barlow's plan , 1833 , March 6 , before I knew that it had been noticed by others . 2. The Mountainous Surface . La Hire , in 1700 ...
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Página 345 - A NEW STAR ATLAS, for the Library, the School, and the Observatory, in Twelve Circular Maps (with Two Index Plates). Intended as a Companion to ' Webb's Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes.
Página 46 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 182 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Página 345 - Why didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make me at home in the starry heavens which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
Página 30 - I have said, he spent to satisfy himself; six more years to satisfy, and still thirteen more to convince, mankind. For thirty years never has the Sun exhibited his disc above the horizon of Dessau without being confronted by Schwabe's imperturbable telescope, and that appears to have happened, on an average, about 300 days a year.
Página 65 - Webb makes the following remarks on the rills:—"These most singular furrows pass chiefly through levels, intersect craters (proving a more recent date), reappear beyond obstructing mountains, as though carried through by a tunnel, and commence and terminate with little reference to any conspicuous feature of the neighbourhood.