The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through CreationW.S. Orr, 1848 - 803 páginas |
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... globe . Aristarchus of Samos is the author of an ingenious plan to ascertain the former . Suppose the centre of the circle s to represent the centre of the sun , M that of the moon , and at E the position of an observer on the surface ...
... globe . Aristarchus of Samos is the author of an ingenious plan to ascertain the former . Suppose the centre of the circle s to represent the centre of the sun , M that of the moon , and at E the position of an observer on the surface ...
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... globe . Next to eclipses of the sun and moon , occultations of the stars and planets by the moon , or the approach of the moon or of a planet to any star , with the appearance of comets , attracted attentive observation . An occultation ...
... globe . Next to eclipses of the sun and moon , occultations of the stars and planets by the moon , or the approach of the moon or of a planet to any star , with the appearance of comets , attracted attentive observation . An occultation ...
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... globe , and all bodies in it , will participate in the common motion of rotation , and illustrated his argument by referring to the clear case of a stone falling from the mast of a vessel participating in the motion of the ship ...
... globe , and all bodies in it , will participate in the common motion of rotation , and illustrated his argument by referring to the clear case of a stone falling from the mast of a vessel participating in the motion of the ship ...
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... globe : yet so vast is the system to which we belong , that this swift - winged messenger , which requires no more than two hours to travel from the central sun to the farthest planet , could not dart through the intervening solitudes ...
... globe : yet so vast is the system to which we belong , that this swift - winged messenger , which requires no more than two hours to travel from the central sun to the farthest planet , could not dart through the intervening solitudes ...
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... globe , and above five hundred times greater than the united volume of all the planetary bodies that revolve around him . If his mass occu- pied the place of the earth , it would fill up the entire orbit of the moon , and extend into ...
... globe , and above five hundred times greater than the united volume of all the planetary bodies that revolve around him . If his mass occu- pied the place of the earth , it would fill up the entire orbit of the moon , and extend into ...
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ancient appearance Aratus astronomers Atlantic Atlantic Ocean atmosphere Black Sea bodies Boötes cause cave cavern centre clouds coast colour comet constellation continent depth diameter direction distance districts earth east ecliptic elevation equator exhibits extent fall feet Flamstead globe heat heavens height Herschel Hipparchus horizon Humboldt hundred hyæna immense inhabitants island Jupiter lake land latitude light limestone lunar magnitude mass miles moon motion mountains nature nearly nebula night northern observed occur ocean orbit Orinoco owing passing perihelion period phenomena plains planets present Ptolemy Pyrenees rain regions remarkable rise rivers rock round sand Saturn scene seen shore side snow solar southern space spot springs square miles stars stone stream summit supposed surface telescope temperature terrestrial thousand trees Tycho Brahe Uranus Ursa Major valley vapour vast vegetation velocity visible volcanic whole wind winter zone
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Página 689 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Página 552 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Página 74 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Página 571 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Página 326 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 180 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Página 574 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron: and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Página 536 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns.
Página 692 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Página 288 - And what are we, That hear the question of that voice sublime? Oh, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life, to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him Who drowned a world, and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains? — a light wave, That breaks, and whispers of its Maker's might.