The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through CreationW.S. Orr, 1848 - 803 páginas |
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... present a diameter equal to two minutes of space . The telescope has shown this to be an optical delusion , that no star has an apparent diameter of a second . But Tycho , knowing that if the earth moved , its change of place from one ...
... present a diameter equal to two minutes of space . The telescope has shown this to be an optical delusion , that no star has an apparent diameter of a second . But Tycho , knowing that if the earth moved , its change of place from one ...
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... present then . It continued visible for the space of sixteen months , gradually diminishing in lustre , until it finally vanished in March 1574. The brilliance of this star was so great as at first to cause Tycho's staff to deflect a ...
... present then . It continued visible for the space of sixteen months , gradually diminishing in lustre , until it finally vanished in March 1574. The brilliance of this star was so great as at first to cause Tycho's staff to deflect a ...
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... present constitution , that will not be the effect of its own faulty architecture , but of the fiat of OMNIPOTENCE . The house of Newton at Woolsthorpe , now the homestead of a farmer , has been in the ownership of persons anxious to ...
... present constitution , that will not be the effect of its own faulty architecture , but of the fiat of OMNIPOTENCE . The house of Newton at Woolsthorpe , now the homestead of a farmer , has been in the ownership of persons anxious to ...
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... present state as are its bounds with respect to the spiritual world . Who can descry a resting point in the wilderness of space ? discern a barrier to the range of the creation ? Vast as are the regions that have been entered , there ...
... present state as are its bounds with respect to the spiritual world . Who can descry a resting point in the wilderness of space ? discern a barrier to the range of the creation ? Vast as are the regions that have been entered , there ...
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... present century at the following periods : - : 1845. May 8 . 1848. Nov. 9 . 1861. Nov. 11 . 1868. Nov. 4 . 1878. May 6 . 1881. Nov. 7 . 1891. May 9 . 1894. Nov. 10 . The next transit will thus be in May of the present year , and be ...
... present century at the following periods : - : 1845. May 8 . 1848. Nov. 9 . 1861. Nov. 11 . 1868. Nov. 4 . 1878. May 6 . 1881. Nov. 7 . 1891. May 9 . 1894. Nov. 10 . The next transit will thus be in May of the present year , and be ...
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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.