New system of astronomy, comprehending the discovery of the gravitating powerLetts, 1825 - 162 էջ |
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... poles , supposed to be so by Sir Isaac Newton , and confirmed by the measurement of the French astronomers , could only be effected as Colonel Macdonald has justly observed , by the Earth not being solid to the center . Analogy is the ...
... poles , supposed to be so by Sir Isaac Newton , and confirmed by the measurement of the French astronomers , could only be effected as Colonel Macdonald has justly observed , by the Earth not being solid to the center . Analogy is the ...
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... that direction , it will be easily accounted , how the signs of it , are shifted each side of the equator , at the equinoxes , caused by the nodding of the Earth's poles , in its annual circuit ; it is this 52 New System , & c .
... that direction , it will be easily accounted , how the signs of it , are shifted each side of the equator , at the equinoxes , caused by the nodding of the Earth's poles , in its annual circuit ; it is this 52 New System , & c .
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... poles advance by this motion towards the Sun , it becomes the more enlightened , the days get longer , the weather becomes warmer , and the Sun is the more elevated ; whilst the opposite pole experiences the reverse of all these ...
... poles advance by this motion towards the Sun , it becomes the more enlightened , the days get longer , the weather becomes warmer , and the Sun is the more elevated ; whilst the opposite pole experiences the reverse of all these ...
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L. Cohen. pole invariably points inwardly ; that the celestial poles must invariably be seen in the same position , in respect to the Sun , through the whole orbit ; because they are nearly in the zenith and nadir of the Sun , in respect ...
L. Cohen. pole invariably points inwardly ; that the celestial poles must invariably be seen in the same position , in respect to the Sun , through the whole orbit ; because they are nearly in the zenith and nadir of the Sun , in respect ...
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... poles being then more perpendicular towards the Sun in respect to its orbit , and its situation in the solar system ; and as the north - pole advances in this direction , the length of the days increase , the heat becomes greater , and ...
... poles being then more perpendicular towards the Sun in respect to its orbit , and its situation in the solar system ; and as the north - pole advances in this direction , the length of the days increase , the heat becomes greater , and ...
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Էջ 147 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Էջ 142 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Էջ 146 - And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand.
Էջ 108 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Էջ 141 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God mad* the earth and the heavens.
Էջ 149 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Էջ 156 - And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land?
Էջ 156 - So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses "which the LORD hath laid upon it ; 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt...
Էջ 149 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: And it shall be to the Lord for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Էջ 119 - I discern any heaps of ruins, nor any smoke ascending above the surface of the water, as is usually described in the writings and maps of geographers. But yet I must not omit what was confidently attested to me by the father guardian and procurator of Jerusalem, both men in years, and seemingly not destitute either of sense or probity ; viz.