The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular Exposition of the Great Discoveries and Theories of Modern Astronomy. In a Series of Ten LecturesOakley & Mason, 1868 - 320 páginas |
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... BODIES . The names of early discoverers lost , 70. Chaldean period found among many nations ; the days of the week , and their names , place of the vernal equinox , 71. Precession of the equinoxes , 73 . Astronomy of the primitive ages ...
... BODIES . The names of early discoverers lost , 70. Chaldean period found among many nations ; the days of the week , and their names , place of the vernal equinox , 71. Precession of the equinoxes , 73 . Astronomy of the primitive ages ...
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... bodies are separated was restored to its primitive value , to recommence its cycle of changes in the same precise order . Here then was a grand problem , to determine the relations existing between the sun and earth ; to endue with ...
... bodies are separated was restored to its primitive value , to recommence its cycle of changes in the same precise order . Here then was a grand problem , to determine the relations existing between the sun and earth ; to endue with ...
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... bodies , sun , moon , and planets , could any principle of association be traced which might bind them together and form them into a common system ? To resolve these profound questions , a critical watch is kept on all the moving bodies ...
... bodies , sun , moon , and planets , could any principle of association be traced which might bind them together and form them into a common system ? To resolve these profound questions , a critical watch is kept on all the moving bodies ...
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... bodies were confined to a narrow zone or belt in the heavens . Centuries had now rolled away , nay , even thou- sands of years had slowly glided by , since the mind had first given itself to the examination of the heav- ens , and while ...
... bodies were confined to a narrow zone or belt in the heavens . Centuries had now rolled away , nay , even thou- sands of years had slowly glided by , since the mind had first given itself to the examination of the heav- ens , and while ...
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... bodies so interfere with the movements of each other , as to affect permanently the structure by which the equilibrium and stability of the entire system is guarantied ? To answer this question , a new train of investiga- tion is ...
... bodies so interfere with the movements of each other , as to affect permanently the structure by which the equilibrium and stability of the entire system is guarantied ? To answer this question , a new train of investiga- tion is ...
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