Tales about the sun, moon, and stars |
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... matter in this volume is very excellently adapted to the capacity and the wants of children . The style is simple , neat , and perspicuous ; the subjects are well selected and happily treated . " 2. TALES ABOUT EUROPE , ASIA , AFRICA ...
... matter in this volume is very excellently adapted to the capacity and the wants of children . The style is simple , neat , and perspicuous ; the subjects are well selected and happily treated . " 2. TALES ABOUT EUROPE , ASIA , AFRICA ...
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... matters still debated by many philosophers ; but , in my humble opinion , you will always deny that this habitation is in any degree probable . I pass , at present , to quite another subject . I have shown you the figure of a full moon ...
... matters still debated by many philosophers ; but , in my humble opinion , you will always deny that this habitation is in any degree probable . I pass , at present , to quite another subject . I have shown you the figure of a full moon ...
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... matter , may be clearly traced with powerful telescopes . " The appearance of these " cup - shaped " sum- mits , or craters , will be remarked as conspicuous in my figures . The " foreshortening , " mentioned above , belongs to the ...
... matter , may be clearly traced with powerful telescopes . " The appearance of these " cup - shaped " sum- mits , or craters , will be remarked as conspicuous in my figures . The " foreshortening , " mentioned above , belongs to the ...
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... matter its light is much brighter than the nucleus of the comet which M. Mechin discovered at Paris on the 10th of this month . " On the night succeed- ing the 19th of April , Sir William found his third volcano burning with greater ...
... matter its light is much brighter than the nucleus of the comet which M. Mechin discovered at Paris on the 10th of this month . " On the night succeed- ing the 19th of April , Sir William found his third volcano burning with greater ...
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... matter must be more than three miles in diame- ter , " like this of Helicon ( so called ) upon the little globe of the moon . Below is a picture of the volcano upon Mount Vesuvius . CHAP . VII . PARLEY STILL TELLS ABOUT THE MOON. THE SUN ...
... matter must be more than three miles in diame- ter , " like this of Helicon ( so called ) upon the little globe of the moon . Below is a picture of the volcano upon Mount Vesuvius . CHAP . VII . PARLEY STILL TELLS ABOUT THE MOON. THE SUN ...
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Common terms and phrases
annular eclipse appear Arago armillary sphere ash-coloured light asteroïds astronomers atmosphere attraction axis balloon believe bright called cause celestial centre changes CHAP clouds comet dark diameter disc distance earth falling stars figure fixed stars full moon globe Halley's comet Harvest Moons heaven heavenly bodies horizon hundred Hunter's Moon Jupiter larger less light and heat little readers luminous magnitude Mars Mercury meteors Milky millions of miles minute moon's moonlight motion mountains naked eye nearer nebules night November observed old moons opening orbit PARLEY TELLS philosophers planetary primary planets revolving round rise round the earth round the sun satellites Saturn secondary planets seen shallow shooting or falling side Sir John Herschel Sir William Herschel Solar System sometimes spots sun and moon sun's supposed surface tail telescope things thousand miles tion told turn round Uranus Venus visible volcanoes whole Zodiacal Light
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Էջ 16 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb 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.
Էջ xiii - Seized in thought, On Fancy's wild and roving wing I sail, From the green borders of the peopled earth, And the pale moon, her duteous, fair attendant ; From solitary Mars ; from the vast orb Of Jupiter, whose huge gigantic bulk Dances in ether like the lightest leaf...
Էջ 26 - ... a degree of brightness about as strong as that with which such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight.
Էջ 257 - On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Էջ 359 - Centauri and the Cross ; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is in comparison hardly traceable.
Էջ 20 - ... below, seem to bid defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around the base of these frightful eminences, are strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the over-hanging cliffs, we expect every moment that they are to be torn from their base, and that the process of destructive separation which we had only contemplated in its effects, is about to be exhibited before us in tremendous...
Էջ 359 - ... almost vacant parts of its general mass, and that eccentrically, so as to be much nearer to the parts about the Cross than to that diametrically opposed to it.
Էջ 20 - ... spring from their rugged flanks, and threatening the valleys below, seem to bid defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around the base of these frightful eminences, are strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the over-hanging cliffs, we expect every moment that they are to be torn from their base, and that the process of destructive separation which we had...
Էջ 360 - ... other objects are scattered. Some of the objects in it are of very singular and incomprehensible forms ; the chief one, especially (30...
Էջ 163 - 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.