Astronomy, as it is Known at the Present Day: With an Account of the Nature and Use of Astronomical Instruments, the Manner of Calculating the Notes of the Calendar, the Distances and Magnitudes of the Planets, and a Number of Other Useful and Interesting Calculations in AstronomyW. Cole, 1825 - 166 страница |
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... tion . But having often felt the want of a book , which he could recommend to the perusal of those who wished to im- prove themselves by reading on these subjects , he has been induced to publish an abridgement of the Lectures ...
... tion . But having often felt the want of a book , which he could recommend to the perusal of those who wished to im- prove themselves by reading on these subjects , he has been induced to publish an abridgement of the Lectures ...
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... tion . So late as the year 1736 , when there happened a very extraordinary HEAT , and furious wind , on the 20th October , it was published in all the Gazettes that the Sun had returned , or gone back to the tropic of Cancer . This was ...
... tion . So late as the year 1736 , when there happened a very extraordinary HEAT , and furious wind , on the 20th October , it was published in all the Gazettes that the Sun had returned , or gone back to the tropic of Cancer . This was ...
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... tion of Venus about her axis . When Venus is an evening star , and at her greatest distance from the sun , or at what is termed her greatest eastern elongation , she ap- pears , when viewed with a telescope , to have a semicircular disc ...
... tion of Venus about her axis . When Venus is an evening star , and at her greatest distance from the sun , or at what is termed her greatest eastern elongation , she ap- pears , when viewed with a telescope , to have a semicircular disc ...
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... tion becomes retrograde , or appears to be directed westward , with respect to the fixed stars . At last she ... tion . The conjunction , which takes place after the western elonga- tion of Venus , is called the superior conjunction , as ...
... tion becomes retrograde , or appears to be directed westward , with respect to the fixed stars . At last she ... tion . The conjunction , which takes place after the western elonga- tion of Venus , is called the superior conjunction , as ...
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... tion to the vast magnitude of the earth , than grains of sand to the size of an artificial globe of twelve inches in diameter . This is the reason that no deviation from the spherical figure of its shadow is perceptible in an eclipse of ...
... tion to the vast magnitude of the earth , than grains of sand to the size of an artificial globe of twelve inches in diameter . This is the reason that no deviation from the spherical figure of its shadow is perceptible in an eclipse of ...
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