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... respects advanced beyond the knowledge imparted by his distinguished tutor . 8. Pythagoras , another Greek philosopher , who founded the school of Croton , B. c . 500 , greatly enlarged the science . He first gave form to the vague ...
... respects advanced beyond the knowledge imparted by his distinguished tutor . 8. Pythagoras , another Greek philosopher , who founded the school of Croton , B. c . 500 , greatly enlarged the science . He first gave form to the vague ...
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... -and when did he flourish ? Describe his theory , ( How locate sun , moon , & c . ? What absurdity did it involve , as it respects Jupiter , and Saturn in the next three , and. 12 ASTRONOMY . Ptolemaic Theory of the Structure of the ...
... -and when did he flourish ? Describe his theory , ( How locate sun , moon , & c . ? What absurdity did it involve , as it respects Jupiter , and Saturn in the next three , and. 12 ASTRONOMY . Ptolemaic Theory of the Structure of the ...
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... respect to the motions of the heavenly bodies ? Was such a theory ever generally believed ? Till how recently ? ) 1. Who was Copernicus ? For what distinguished ? About what time ? ( Wha of his investigations ? His work ? Its ...
... respect to the motions of the heavenly bodies ? Was such a theory ever generally believed ? Till how recently ? ) 1. Who was Copernicus ? For what distinguished ? About what time ? ( Wha of his investigations ? His work ? Its ...
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... respects , the theory represented is the same in both works ; and this is only a minor point in the system . 12. A second leading feature of the Copernican theory is , that the apparent revolution of the sun , moon , and stars westward ...
... respects , the theory represented is the same in both works ; and this is only a minor point in the system . 12. A second leading feature of the Copernican theory is , that the apparent revolution of the sun , moon , and stars westward ...
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... respect , Right Ascension in the heavens is like longitude on the earth : they are both reckoned upon the equators of their respective spheres . But while longitude is reckoned both east and west of the first meridian , and can only ...
... respect , Right Ascension in the heavens is like longitude on the earth : they are both reckoned upon the equators of their respective spheres . But while longitude is reckoned both east and west of the first meridian , and can only ...
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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.