The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular Exposition of the Great Discoveries and Theories of Modern AstronomyOakley & Mason, 1866 - 326 páginas |
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... telescope was found here and there scattered through the country ; but no regularly organized observatory with power- ful instruments , existed within the limits of the United States , so far as I know . To attempt the building of an ...
... telescope was found here and there scattered through the country ; but no regularly organized observatory with power- ful instruments , existed within the limits of the United States , so far as I know . To attempt the building of an ...
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... telescope . Having made a conditional arrangement for this and other instruments , I returned to Greenwich , England , where , at the invitation of Professor iry , the Astronomer Royal , I remained for some time to study . Having accom ...
... telescope . Having made a conditional arrangement for this and other instruments , I returned to Greenwich , England , where , at the invitation of Professor iry , the Astronomer Royal , I remained for some time to study . Having accom ...
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... Telescope , was laid by John Quincy Adams , with appropriate ceremonies . On this occasion Mr. Adams made his last great oration . The deep interest which he had taken in astronomical science warranted the hope that he might be induced ...
... Telescope , was laid by John Quincy Adams , with appropriate ceremonies . On this occasion Mr. Adams made his last great oration . The deep interest which he had taken in astronomical science warranted the hope that he might be induced ...
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... telescope , was collected and remitted ; and the society was left with scarcely a dollar of available means , to commence the erection of a building which , according to the plan , would cost some seven or eight thousand dollars . It ...
... telescope , was collected and remitted ; and the society was left with scarcely a dollar of available means , to commence the erection of a building which , according to the plan , would cost some seven or eight thousand dollars . It ...
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... telescope , 108. His discoveries in the moon , and among the planets and fixed stars , 110 . Venus , 111. Questions relating to the planetary motions , 113 . Laws of motion ; the centrifugal force , 114. Problem presented for solution ...
... telescope , 108. His discoveries in the moon , and among the planets and fixed stars , 110 . Venus , 111. Questions relating to the planetary motions , 113 . Laws of motion ; the centrifugal force , 114. Problem presented for solution ...
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