Humboldt library of science. no. 20, 1881, Oplag 20Humboldt Publishing Company, 1881 |
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Side 402
... existence seems to have been known from a very early period , he was comparatively telescope . Copernicus lamented upon seldom seen before the invention of the * It is calculated that Mercury , Venus , and the Earth will , from a ...
... existence seems to have been known from a very early period , he was comparatively telescope . Copernicus lamented upon seldom seen before the invention of the * It is calculated that Mercury , Venus , and the Earth will , from a ...
Side 407
... existence was first suspected by Bouvard in 1821 , from the perturbations in the motions of Uranus caused by his disturbing influ- ence . The problem of determining from these scanty data the distance , the orbit , and the mass of the ...
... existence was first suspected by Bouvard in 1821 , from the perturbations in the motions of Uranus caused by his disturbing influ- ence . The problem of determining from these scanty data the distance , the orbit , and the mass of the ...
Side 412
... existence or non - existence of a lunar atmosphere , lunar seas , and lunar inhabitants , we may glance in the first place over those points of interest which depend simply upon the position and movements of the moon -points therefore ...
... existence or non - existence of a lunar atmosphere , lunar seas , and lunar inhabitants , we may glance in the first place over those points of interest which depend simply upon the position and movements of the moon -points therefore ...
Side 415
... existence of terres- trial inhabitants ; and they would doubt- less make known to us in return their own existence by some similar device . But neither of these experiments was tried , and neither of them is likely to be tried now ; for ...
... existence of terres- trial inhabitants ; and they would doubt- less make known to us in return their own existence by some similar device . But neither of these experiments was tried , and neither of them is likely to be tried now ; for ...
Side 419
they take place , are incompatible with anything but a gaseous state of existence . Accordingly the old idea of a luminous liquid ocean was discarded ; and the following theory , propounded by Sir William Herschel , is now , in its main ...
they take place , are incompatible with anything but a gaseous state of existence . Accordingly the old idea of a luminous liquid ocean was discarded ; and the following theory , propounded by Sir William Herschel , is now , in its main ...
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altogether appearance asteroids astronomers atmos atmosphere axis Babylonian bright brilliancy cause Ceres Cloth cluster comet course craters creation crust dark discovery disk distance Double Number earth Edward Clodd ence Essays existence fact firmament gaseous Genesis globe glory Grant Allen gravity heat heavenly bodies heavens Herbert Spencer Herschel Huxley hypothesis Illustrated inhabitants J. F. C. Hecker John Tyndall Jupiter Laplace's less light liquid lunar mass matter Mercury meteoric miles millions moon moon's surface motion nature Nebular Hypothesis Neptune night nucleus observations oceans orbit origin period phenomena planets position present probably Prof ray centres reason regarded regions revolution Richard Chenevix Trench ring romance rotation round satellites Saturn scientific side solar system solid spots stage stars stellar sun's supposed T. H. Huxley tablet telescope theory tion turn universe Uranus velocity whole William Kingdon Clifford zodiac
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Side 400 - There are seven windows given to animals in the domicile of the head, through which the air is admitted to the tabernacle of the body, to enlighten, to warm, and to nourish it...
Side 421 - The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean without bound, Without dimension; where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost...
Side 444 - ... and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Side 421 - And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Side 400 - From which and many other similar phenomena of nature, such as the seven metals, etc., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven. " Moreover, the satellites are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can have no influence on the earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist.
Side 433 - For all these things hath mine hand made, and so all these things came to be, saith the LORD : but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my word.
Side 400 - Besides, the Jews and other ancient nations as well as modern Europeans have adopted the division of the week into seven days, and have named them from the seven planets : now if we increase the number of the planets this whole system falls to the ground.