A Study of the SkyFlood and Vincent, 1896 - 340 من الصفحات |
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... theories which embrace the visible universe , reaching from unknown depths of past ages up to unmeasured heights of futurity . The historical development of the science is sketched . An explanation of the apparent daily motion of the ...
... theories which embrace the visible universe , reaching from unknown depths of past ages up to unmeasured heights of futurity . The historical development of the science is sketched . An explanation of the apparent daily motion of the ...
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... theory forbids a belief that the equator and ecliptic have been perpendicular within the memory of man , and lends no countenance to the theory that they ever were . Herodotus . astronomy . A high antiquity is claimed for the beginning ...
... theory forbids a belief that the equator and ecliptic have been perpendicular within the memory of man , and lends no countenance to the theory that they ever were . Herodotus . astronomy . A high antiquity is claimed for the beginning ...
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... theories were groundless , and many of their statements obscure and mingled with metaphysics in a most curious fashion , yet gems of truth are to be found here and there , which well repay the labor spent in searching them out . Though ...
... theories were groundless , and many of their statements obscure and mingled with metaphysics in a most curious fashion , yet gems of truth are to be found here and there , which well repay the labor spent in searching them out . Though ...
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... theory that the sun is the center about which the earth and the other planets move ; this would nowadays be called a " class - room theory , " because it was not promulgated except in a private way among his students . Philolaus , a ...
... theory that the sun is the center about which the earth and the other planets move ; this would nowadays be called a " class - room theory , " because it was not promulgated except in a private way among his students . Philolaus , a ...
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... theory , which he tested by observation and computation . In determining the length of the year he made an error of only four minutes . pre- After Hipparchus the most distinguished astronomer of antiquity was Ptolemy , who lived at ...
... theory , which he tested by observation and computation . In determining the length of the year he made an error of only four minutes . pre- After Hipparchus the most distinguished astronomer of antiquity was Ptolemy , who lived at ...
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Andromeda appear Arcturus astronomer atmosphere axis beautiful Betelgeuse bodies Boötes bright brighter brightest called Cassiopeia cause celestial sphere Chamberlin Observatory changes chromosphere clock clouds cluster color comet composed constellation corona crater dark diameter Dipper disc distance double star earth eclipse equator faint stars fixed stars glass glowing half heat heavens Hercules horizon inferior conjunction instrument Jupiter lens lies light line from Polaris look lunar Lyra Lyræ Mars masses matter measure meridian circle meteorite meteors miles Milky minute Mizar moon moon's motion move Mythology naked eye nearly nebula night observations observatory opera-glass Ophiuchus orbit Orion passes photographic photosphere planet Pleiades Polaris portion position prolonged Queries revolution revolve right ascension ring rotation Saturn seen shadow shining shower Sirius small telescope solar spectra spectroscope spectrum spider-web spot sun-spots sun's sunlight surface tail tains theory tion turned Uranus Venus visible
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الصفحة 334 - 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?
الصفحة 327 - Into this wild abyss, The womb of nature, and perhaps her grave,* Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire, But all these in their pregnant causes mixed Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless the almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to create more worlds...
الصفحة 205 - May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent in my wind-built tent.
الصفحة 204 - In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was...
الصفحة 271 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
الصفحة 36 - THE sad and solemn night Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires ; The glorious host of light Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires ; All through her silent watches, gliding slow, Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go. Day, too, hath many a star To grace his gorgeous reign, as bright as they : Through the blue fields afar, Unseen, they follow in his flaming way : Many a bright lingerer, as the eve grows dim, Tells what a radiant troop arose and set with him.
الصفحة 327 - The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave, Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, But all these in their pregnant causes mixed Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to create more worlds — Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while, Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith He had to cross.
الصفحة 260 - Alas, your dear friend and servant, Galileo, has become totally and irreparably blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which with wonderful observations I had enlarged a hundred and thousand times beyond the belief of by-gone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into the narrow space which I myself fill in it. So it pleases God; it shall therefore please me also.
الصفحة 167 - OLD TIME, in whose bank we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats ; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years.
الصفحة 204 - And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen.