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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... solar rays to save the eye , Fabricius could only observe the sun at the horizon , when his brilliancy was impaired by the density of the atmosphere , and even then he suffered much from the impression of the solar light . Our own ...
... solar rays to save the eye , Fabricius could only observe the sun at the horizon , when his brilliancy was impaired by the density of the atmosphere , and even then he suffered much from the impression of the solar light . Our own ...
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... solar changes , though comparatively upon a most puny scale . If this view of the constitution of the central globe be correct , there are strong resemblances between the sun and the bodies circulating in the system . They exhibit a ...
... solar changes , though comparatively upon a most puny scale . If this view of the constitution of the central globe be correct , there are strong resemblances between the sun and the bodies circulating in the system . They exhibit a ...
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... solar system likewise . But Halley is the first person who , from observation , suspected the proper motion of the stars . In a paper of the year 1718 , he stated , that since the days of the Alexandrian astronomers , the stars ...
... solar system likewise . But Halley is the first person who , from observation , suspected the proper motion of the stars . In a paper of the year 1718 , he stated , that since the days of the Alexandrian astronomers , the stars ...
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Illustrated TitleAstronomy | 14 |
Sycne near Alexandria | 89 |
Translation of the Earth in space | 159 |
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