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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... sun's apparent motion the subject of perplexity , 55. The equinoxes and solstices , 56. Inequality in the sun's motion detected , 57. The construction of the pere , 58. Its uses in observing , 59. Eclipses of the sun and moon and their ...
... sun's apparent motion the subject of perplexity , 55. The equinoxes and solstices , 56. Inequality in the sun's motion detected , 57. The construction of the pere , 58. Its uses in observing , 59. Eclipses of the sun and moon and their ...
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... sun , 236. Resisting medium , 237. Biela's comet , 238. Fears excited of collision with the earth , in 1832 , 239. Its ... sun's disc , 246. Comets accounted for by Laplace's nebular hypothesis , 247. Herschel's theory of the physical ...
... sun , 236. Resisting medium , 237. Biela's comet , 238. Fears excited of collision with the earth , in 1832 , 239. Its ... sun's disc , 246. Comets accounted for by Laplace's nebular hypothesis , 247. Herschel's theory of the physical ...
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... sun and earth ; to endue with motion that one of these bodies which did move , and to fix the limits within which the observed changes occurred , both in time and distance . While the connection between the sun and earth was certain , a ...
... sun and earth ; to endue with motion that one of these bodies which did move , and to fix the limits within which the observed changes occurred , both in time and distance . While the connection between the sun and earth was certain , a ...
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... sun , pouring a flood of light over all the earth , to develop the mysterious connection between the disappear- ance of the moon and those terrific phenomena , the going out of the sun in dim eclipse - these furnished themes for ...
... sun , pouring a flood of light over all the earth , to develop the mysterious connection between the disappear- ance of the moon and those terrific phenomena , the going out of the sun in dim eclipse - these furnished themes for ...
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... sun about sun . The swift velocity of light is measured to become the future unit in the expression of the mighty distances which remain yet to be revealed . Ever baf- fled but never conquered , the mind returns again and again to the ...
... sun about sun . The swift velocity of light is measured to become the future unit in the expression of the mighty distances which remain yet to be revealed . Ever baf- fled but never conquered , the mind returns again and again to the ...
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