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... known to be a globe , from the fact tha . ships are constantly sailing around it . 8. It is not certain whether Ptolemy admitted the earth to be a sphere or not . Some writers maintain that he rejected this doctrine , and others that he ...
... known to be a globe , from the fact tha . ships are constantly sailing around it . 8. It is not certain whether Ptolemy admitted the earth to be a sphere or not . Some writers maintain that he rejected this doctrine , and others that he ...
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... known to the ancients ; but Uranus and Neptune have both been discovered during the last hundred years . Besides the eight larger planets , there are now known to exist eighty - five small planets , called Asteroids , all revolving ...
... known to the ancients ; but Uranus and Neptune have both been discovered during the last hundred years . Besides the eight larger planets , there are now known to exist eighty - five small planets , called Asteroids , all revolving ...
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... known to the ancients , consequently they had no pistols , muskets , or cannon . They fought with short swords and spears , and defended themselves with the shield , carried on the left arm . A shield and spear were , therefore , very ...
... known to the ancients , consequently they had no pistols , muskets , or cannon . They fought with short swords and spears , and defended themselves with the shield , carried on the left arm . A shield and spear were , therefore , very ...
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... known by the name of Herschel , but astronomers now almost universally call it Uranus . It bears this name in the British Nautical Almanac for 1851 , with the full consent of Sir John Herschel , the son of the great discoverer . It was ...
... known by the name of Herschel , but astronomers now almost universally call it Uranus . It bears this name in the British Nautical Almanac for 1851 , with the full consent of Sir John Herschel , the son of the great discoverer . It was ...
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Hiram Mattison. f4 Selene by the Greeks . She is known by various sy bols , according as she is new , half - grown , or thus : D , O. b 1. From Luna we have our modern terms lunar and lunacy ; the former of which signifies pertaining to ...
Hiram Mattison. f4 Selene by the Greeks . She is known by various sy bols , according as she is new , half - grown , or thus : D , O. b 1. From Luna we have our modern terms lunar and lunacy ; the former of which signifies pertaining to ...
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angle angular aphelion apparent magnitude appear Asteroids astronomers atmosphere attraction axis bodies called cause celestial Celestial Longitude circle comets concave constellations diameter difference direction disk distance earth earth's orbit east eastward ecliptic equator equinoctial equinox exterior planets figure fixed stars full moon globe heavens hemisphere Illustrate by diagram inclination Jupiter length libration light and heat longitude lunar Mars Mercury meridian minutes moon moon's orbit motion naked eye nearly nebulous Neptune nodes o'clock objects observations opposite pass perihelion planetary planets pole principal stars Prof refracting telescope refraction Remark represent respect retrograde revolve right ascension rings satellites Saturn seasons seen shadow shown side sidereal revolution solar day solar eclipse solar system sphere spots student sun and moon sun's supposed surface symbol synodic revolution tails telescope tide-wave tides tion transit Uranus velocity Venus vernal equinox visible zodiac zodiacal light
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Page 168 - He telleth the number of the stars, and calleth them all by their names.
Page 10 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 173 - 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 10 - 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.
Page 170 - 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 200 - ... thousand stars, compacted and wedged together in a round space, whose angular diameter does not exceed eight or ten minutes; that is to say, in an area not more than a tenth part of that covered by the moon.
Page 66 - The inclination of the Earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic causes the equinoctial to depart 23° 28
Page 21 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.