The Story of the Stars: New Descriptive AstronomyAmerican Book Company, 1884 - 326 síður |
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ancients Andromeda angle aphelion appearance Aries astronomers atmosphere autumnal equinox axis Boötes bright brilliant Canis Minor Capricornus Cassiopeia cause Celestial Sphere Cepheus circle color comet conjunction constellation Cor Caroli dark Describe diameter disk distance earth earth's orbit east ecliptic equal equator equinoctial fixed stars globe heat heavenly bodies heavens Hercules horizon inferior planet Jupiter latitude length Libra light longitude lunar Lyra magnitude Mars mean measured Mercury meridian meteors moon moon's motion move MYTHOLOGICAL naked eye nearly nebula Neptune night node north pole observations Orion parallax pass path perihelion Perseus polar Polaris precession rays revolve rings rising rotation satellites Saturn seasons seen shine sidereal Sirius solar day solar system space spectrum spots sun's superior planet surface tail Taurus telescope theory tide tion Uranus Ursa Major Ursa Minor varies velocity Venus vernal equinox visible zenith Zodiac zone
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Síða 227 - Back comes the Chief in triumph. Who, in the hour of fight, Hath seen the Great Twin Brethren In harness on his right. Safe comes the ship to haven, Through billows and through gales, If once the Great Twin Brethren Sit shining on the sails.
Síða 112 - While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Síða 257 - That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Síða vii - God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Síða 295 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
Síða 216 - Her nails are sharpen'd into pointed claws, Her hands bear half her weight, and turn to paws ; Her lips, that once could tempt a god, begin To grow distorted in an ugly grin. And...
Síða 284 - I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy Earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
Síða 264 - A solar day is the interval between two successive passages of the sun across the meridian of any place.
Síða 24 - Law of gravitation: Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force varying directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them.
Síða 19 - If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it. The die is cast, the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.