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... light and heat to all these bodies is itself a spherical body , and has a motion like them on its axis . That it has , more- over , a progressive movement in infinite space , with all the Planets in its train , towards , or round , some ...
... light and heat to all these bodies is itself a spherical body , and has a motion like them on its axis . That it has , more- over , a progressive movement in infinite space , with all the Planets in its train , towards , or round , some ...
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... light . The Moon revolves round the Earth in one month at the mean distance of 237,000 miles . If the plane of the 1 Leverrier and Adams . See Appendix , Note A. at the end of the Introduction . " Learners are apt to boggle at the ...
... light . The Moon revolves round the Earth in one month at the mean distance of 237,000 miles . If the plane of the 1 Leverrier and Adams . See Appendix , Note A. at the end of the Introduction . " Learners are apt to boggle at the ...
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... middle term be- tween the greatest and the least . Total , when the moon was nearest to the earth , and annular , when she was farthest . 2 See Appendix . Note B. the Sun's light by her projected shadow from more than xii INTRODUCTION .
... middle term be- tween the greatest and the least . Total , when the moon was nearest to the earth , and annular , when she was farthest . 2 See Appendix . Note B. the Sun's light by her projected shadow from more than xii INTRODUCTION .
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James Pillans. the Sun's light by her projected shadow from more than a small portion of the Earth's surface , and that only for a short space of time . But besides the eight Planets named , reckoning the Earth as one of them , there are ...
James Pillans. the Sun's light by her projected shadow from more than a small portion of the Earth's surface , and that only for a short space of time . But besides the eight Planets named , reckoning the Earth as one of them , there are ...
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... light ) are called fixed stars , because they never change their relative positions , that is , their apparent angu- lar distances from one another . It is thus they are distinguished from the planets , ( λavytai , wanderers , from ...
... light ) are called fixed stars , because they never change their relative positions , that is , their apparent angu- lar distances from one another . It is thus they are distinguished from the planets , ( λavytai , wanderers , from ...
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Page 118 - Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils.
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Page 83 - Had ye been there, for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore. The Muse herself for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?
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Page 62 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
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