Elements of astronomy, illustrated by problems on the globes, and adapted for the use of young persons, with a set of questions for examinationLongman, Rees, Orme, & Company, 1828 - 182 страници |
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... reason , and what it was that they ascertained or conjectured . On turning our attention to the heavens , we find ourselves placed in the centre of what appears a vast dome or concave , bending over a plane of unlimited extent . By ...
... reason , and what it was that they ascertained or conjectured . On turning our attention to the heavens , we find ourselves placed in the centre of what appears a vast dome or concave , bending over a plane of unlimited extent . By ...
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... reason why 360 degrees , or parts , were made the common measure of all circles in general . " * CHAPTER III . OF ALTITUDE , AZIMUTH , AND AMPLitude . HAVING already had occasion to speak of the alti- tude of the pole , and the altitude ...
... reason why 360 degrees , or parts , were made the common measure of all circles in general . " * CHAPTER III . OF ALTITUDE , AZIMUTH , AND AMPLitude . HAVING already had occasion to speak of the alti- tude of the pole , and the altitude ...
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... reason as before , the Winter Solstice . From that day he begins to return northward , and reaches the equator again on the 21st March . These facts , which are so obvious as to force themselves upon the attention of mankind , would na ...
... reason as before , the Winter Solstice . From that day he begins to return northward , and reaches the equator again on the 21st March . These facts , which are so obvious as to force themselves upon the attention of mankind , would na ...
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... reason to have provoked the bold remark which is said to have been uttered by Alphonso , king of Castile , that , had he been present at the creation of the world , he could have counselled the Deity to construct it better . The only ...
... reason to have provoked the bold remark which is said to have been uttered by Alphonso , king of Castile , that , had he been present at the creation of the world , he could have counselled the Deity to construct it better . The only ...
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... reason of the earth's real revolution ; and its apparent track will be the same as the real track of the earth , as seen from the sun . Hence a new and more accurate idea may be formed of the Ecliptic . Hitherto it has only been spoken ...
... reason of the earth's real revolution ; and its apparent track will be the same as the real track of the earth , as seen from the sun . Hence a new and more accurate idea may be formed of the Ecliptic . Hitherto it has only been spoken ...
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Страница 133 - One sun by day, by night ten thousand shine ; And light us deep into the DEITY. How boundless in magnificence and might ! O what a confluence of ethereal fires, From urns unnumber'd, down the steep of heaven, Streams to a point, and centres in my sight ! Nor tarries there ; I feel it at my heart. My heart, at once, it humbles, and exalts; Lays it in dust, and calls it to the skies.
Страница 46 - He conceived that the celestial spheres in which the planets move, striking upon the ether through which they pass, must produce a sound ; and that this sound must vary according to the diversity of their magnitude, velocity, and relative distance. Taking it for granted that every...
Страница 120 - That the planets all move in elliptic orbits, of which the sun occupies one of the foci. 3. That the squares of the times of the revolutions of the planets are as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Страница 132 - The empyreal waste, where happy spirits hold, Beyond this concave heaven, their calm abode ; And fields of radiance, whose unfading light Has travelled the profound six thousand years, Nor yet arrives in sight of mortal things.
Страница 20 - ... fallacy, and reasoning upon it with the same confidence as if it were true. On the 9th of June we sailed from Arica, and steered along shore to the north-west. In the evening of that day we had a fine view of the Cordillera, or highest ridge of the mountains, not less than between eighty and a hundred miles off. It was only when the ship was at a considerable distance from the shore that the higher Andes came in sight ; for when near to it, the lower ranges, themselves of great height, intercepted...
Страница 46 - ... sound must vary according to the diversity of their magnitude, velocity, and relative distance. Taking it for granted, that every thing respecting the heavenly bodies is adjusted with perfect regularity, he further imagined, that all the circumstances necessary to render the sounds produced by their motion harmonious, were fixed in such exact proportions, that the most perfect harmony is produced by their revolutions. This fanciful doctrine respecting the music of the spheres gave rise to the...
Страница 139 - The little derangements which affect the motion of the heavenly bodies are apparent only to the eye of the astronomer ; and even these, after reaching a certain limit, gradually diminish, till the system, regaining its balance, returns to that state of harmony and order which preceded the commencement of these secular irreyularitiis.
Страница 139 - System of Astronomy, by Mr. Vince, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. The fifth edition of an Analysis of the Greek Metres, by Dr. Scale. A Confutation of Atheism, from the Laws and Constitution of the Heavenly Bodies, by Professor Vince.
Страница 111 - ... demonstrated respecting motion in circular orbits. The planets then and their satellites being known by Kepler's laws to move in elliptical orbits, and to describe round the sun in one focus areas proportional to the times by their radii vectores drawn to that focus, and it being further found by those laws that the squares of their periodic times are as...
Страница 96 - Venus, the next in order to Mercury, is the most brilliant of all the planets. When visible before sunrise, she was called by the ancients Phosphorus, Lucifer, or the Morning Star, and when she shone in the evening after sunset, Hesperus, Vesper, or the Evening Star. She presents the same appearances as Mercury. Owing, however, to the greater diameter of her orbit, her apparent oscillations are nearly 48° east and west of the sun,* or about 18° more than those of Mercury. She is therefore...