The Gallery of Nature; a Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation, Illustrative of the Wonders of Astronmy, Physical Geography, and Geology |
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... observed a star of great splendour in the constella- tion Cassiopeia , which he had never seen before , as he was walking across the fields about ten o'clock in the evening . It beamed with a lustre quite unwonted in that part of the ...
... observed a star of great splendour in the constella- tion Cassiopeia , which he had never seen before , as he was walking across the fields about ten o'clock in the evening . It beamed with a lustre quite unwonted in that part of the ...
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... observed was predicted by Keppler , and witnessed by Gassendi , at Paris , on the 7th of November 1631. The second observed transit , on the 3d November 1651 , was watched at Surat , in India , by Shakerley , a young Englishman , who ...
... observed was predicted by Keppler , and witnessed by Gassendi , at Paris , on the 7th of November 1631. The second observed transit , on the 3d November 1651 , was watched at Surat , in India , by Shakerley , a young Englishman , who ...
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... observation or entry , and that stars have really been observed , and as really have disappeared . A star of the fifth magnitude , 55 Herculis , in the catalogue of Flamstead , was particularly observed by Herschel in 1781 and 1782 ...
... observation or entry , and that stars have really been observed , and as really have disappeared . A star of the fifth magnitude , 55 Herculis , in the catalogue of Flamstead , was particularly observed by Herschel in 1781 and 1782 ...
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