Humboldt library of science. no. 20, 1881, Oplag 20Humboldt Publishing Company, 1881 |
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Side 403
... stellar orbs ; and the " Star of the Even- ing , Beautiful Star , " has been sung by poets of every age and clime , from Homer to the Christy Minstrels . Like Mercury , and for the same reason , Venus is seldom seen except about sunrise ...
... stellar orbs ; and the " Star of the Even- ing , Beautiful Star , " has been sung by poets of every age and clime , from Homer to the Christy Minstrels . Like Mercury , and for the same reason , Venus is seldom seen except about sunrise ...
Side 421
... stellar universe around , we come upon those erratic and anomalous bodies See the chapter on Laplace's Nebular Hypothesis . In the chapter above referred to we have depicted the earth as falling into the sun , still an intensely heated ...
... stellar universe around , we come upon those erratic and anomalous bodies See the chapter on Laplace's Nebular Hypothesis . In the chapter above referred to we have depicted the earth as falling into the sun , still an intensely heated ...
Side 429
... stellar universe around us , compared with which our own system , mighty as it is , counts but as a drop in the ocean . And here , as formerly , our sub- ject naturally divides itself into two parts . We have to consider first , those ...
... stellar universe around us , compared with which our own system , mighty as it is , counts but as a drop in the ocean . And here , as formerly , our sub- ject naturally divides itself into two parts . We have to consider first , those ...
Side 434
... stellar parallax was only an instrumental difficulty ; the stars must suffer some displacement ac- cording to the season of the year , and only a sufficiently good telescope in the hands of a sufficiently skilful and ac- curate observer ...
... stellar parallax was only an instrumental difficulty ; the stars must suffer some displacement ac- cording to the season of the year , and only a sufficiently good telescope in the hands of a sufficiently skilful and ac- curate observer ...
Side 436
stellar system , and combining it with the known direction of our sun's motion , he was led to believe that the centre of grav- ity of that system must be situated in or near the constellation Taurus . A care- ful examination of all the ...
stellar system , and combining it with the known direction of our sun's motion , he was led to believe that the centre of grav- ity of that system must be situated in or near the constellation Taurus . A care- ful examination of all the ...
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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.