The sun, its planets and their satellites1882 |
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amount appear astronomers attraction axis balls bright calculations cause Cavendish experiment centre circle consequently considerable corresponding Deimos density diagram diameter direction disc Earth Earth's orbit eclipse effect epicycle equal equator equatoreal exactly explained fact Full Moon globe greater GRESHAM COLLEGE heat heavens hemisphere horizon inclination indicate inferior planet inner satellite interesting interval involved Jupiter Jupiter's latitude Lecture less light lunar Mars mean distance Mercury miles per hour millions of miles Minor Planets minutes Moon's motion movements nearer nearest nearly Neptune noticed observations Observatory occur opposite pass path Perihelion period phase Phobos photosphere pole portion position present probably remarkable respectively result revolve rings rotation round the Earth round the Sun Satellite Saturn seen shadow sidereal day solar eclipse Solar System speed spot star straight line Sun-spots Sun's supposed supposition surface telescope tion transit Uranus vapour velocity Venus visible whole zenith
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Página 69 - Shows her broad visage in the crimson east, Turn'd to the Sun directs her spotted disk, Where mountains rise, umbrageous dales descend And caverns deep, as oblique tubes descry ; A smaller earth, gives all his blaze again, Void of its flame, and
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Página 405 - lines :— •' Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven, If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires!
Página 381 - When the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander. What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny 1 What raging of the
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Página 48 - I marvel not, 0 Sun ! that unto thee In adoration man should bow the knee, And pour the prayer of mingled awe and love ; For, like a god thou art, and on thy way Of glory
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Página viii - world-revolving power, Were first th' unwieldy planets launch'd along Th' illimitable void ! Thus to remain Amid the flux of many thousand years,