The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through CreationW.S. Orr, 1848 - 803 pages |
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... owing to the difficulty of ascertaining the exact time of the bisection of the moon's disc , and the imperfect instruments then in use for the mea- surement of angular distances . The determination of the sun's distance from the earth ...
... owing to the difficulty of ascertaining the exact time of the bisection of the moon's disc , and the imperfect instruments then in use for the mea- surement of angular distances . The determination of the sun's distance from the earth ...
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... owing to the comparatively small height of buildings suitable to the purpose . Newton first threw out the idea , and cal- culated that a ball would deviate about half an inch from the plumb - line , to the east , from the height of ...
... owing to the comparatively small height of buildings suitable to the purpose . Newton first threw out the idea , and cal- culated that a ball would deviate about half an inch from the plumb - line , to the east , from the height of ...
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... owing to it , all the heavenly bodies appear to us considerably higher than they really are . Let a b , a b , a b , a b , be strata , or layers of the atmosphere , increasing in density towards mn , the surface of the earth . A ray of ...
... owing to it , all the heavenly bodies appear to us considerably higher than they really are . Let a b , a b , a b , a b , be strata , or layers of the atmosphere , increasing in density towards mn , the surface of the earth . A ray of ...
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... of others to give him a hold upon the admiration of posterity . It is melancholy to reflect , that he lived in misery , owing ever . - to the difficulty of obtaining his pension as mathematician 28 HISTORY OF ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY .
... of others to give him a hold upon the admiration of posterity . It is melancholy to reflect , that he lived in misery , owing ever . - to the difficulty of obtaining his pension as mathematician 28 HISTORY OF ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY .
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... owing to the vastness of the solar mass . The planets likewise act upon each other ; and as their relative distances are perpetually varying , certain perturbations are caused in the system , which , though minute in each particular ...
... owing to the vastness of the solar mass . The planets likewise act upon each other ; and as their relative distances are perpetually varying , certain perturbations are caused in the system , which , though minute in each particular ...
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The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation Thomas Milner No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 689 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Page 552 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 74 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 571 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 326 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 180 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 574 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron: and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Page 536 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns.
Page 692 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Page 288 - And what are we, That hear the question of that voice sublime? Oh, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life, to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him Who drowned a world, and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains? — a light wave, That breaks, and whispers of its Maker's might.