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... fact , can be more apparently differ- ent than the vast and seemingly immeasurable extent of the earth , and the stars ? The earth is a dark and opaque , while the celestial bodies are brilliant . We perceive in it no motion , while in ...
... fact , can be more apparently differ- ent than the vast and seemingly immeasurable extent of the earth , and the stars ? The earth is a dark and opaque , while the celestial bodies are brilliant . We perceive in it no motion , while in ...
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... fact , that in all situations , in every part of the earth , the direction of a plumb - line is exactly perpendicular to the surface of still water ; and , moreover , that it is also exactly perpendicular to a line or surface truly ...
... fact , that in all situations , in every part of the earth , the direction of a plumb - line is exactly perpendicular to the surface of still water ; and , moreover , that it is also exactly perpendicular to a line or surface truly ...
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... , however , noticed , for the convenience of readers who may use sucn in struments without going farther into the arcana of practical astronomy . difficulty . In fact , it is a case precisely ILLUSTRATION BY EXAMPLES . - REFRACTION . 83.
... , however , noticed , for the convenience of readers who may use sucn in struments without going farther into the arcana of practical astronomy . difficulty . In fact , it is a case precisely ILLUSTRATION BY EXAMPLES . - REFRACTION . 83.
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... fact , only 23 56 ' 4-09 " , instead of 24 hours , such hours as our common clocks mark . Here , then , we have already two different days , a sidereal and a solar ; and if , instead of the sun , we observe the moon , we find a third ...
... fact , only 23 56 ' 4-09 " , instead of 24 hours , such hours as our common clocks mark . Here , then , we have already two different days , a sidereal and a solar ; and if , instead of the sun , we observe the moon , we find a third ...
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... fact , we are led to attend more nicely to the times of the daily arrival of the sun on the meridian , irregularities ( such they first seem to be ) begin to make their appearance . The intervals between two successive arrivals are not ...
... fact , we are led to attend more nicely to the times of the daily arrival of the sun on the meridian , irregularities ( such they first seem to be ) begin to make their appearance . The intervals between two successive arrivals are not ...
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Page 211 - ... of those great deposits of dynamical efficiency which are laid up for human use in our coal strata. By them the waters of the sea are made to circulate in vapour through the air, and irrigate the land, producing springs and rivers.
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Page 211 - The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to terrestrial action and the aurora.
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Page 281 - As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or, still worse, from those very childish toys called orreries, it is out of the question.
Page 298 - ... the earth. And since it is an observed fact, that even those larger comets which have presented the appearance of a nucleus have yet exhibited no phases, though we cannot doubt that they shine by the reflected solar light, it follows that even these can only be regarded as great masses of thin vapour, susceptible of being penetrated through their whole substance by the sunbeams, and reflecting them alike from their interior parts and from their surfaces.
Page 204 - Ingens macula in sole conspiciebatur, cujus diam eter= s'ji "diam. solis. uniformly bright. Its ground is finely mottled with an appearance of minute, dark dots, or pores, which, when attentively watched, are found to be in a constant state of change. There is nothing which represents so faithfully this appearance as the slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above...
Page 526 - Every year whose number is not divisible by 4 without remainder, consists of 365 days ; every year which is so divisible, but is not divisible by 100, of 366 ; every year divisible by 100, but not by 400, again of 365 ; and every year divisible by 400, again of 366.
Page 166 - This remarkable belt has maintained, from the earliest ages, the same relative situation among the stars ; and, when examined through powerful telescopes, is found (wonderful to relate ! ) to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on. the black ground of the general heavens.
Page 210 - ... may, nevertheless, be in a state of most intense ignition. It does not, however, follow of necessity that it must be so. The contrary is at least physically possible. A perfectly reflective canopy would effectually defend it from the radiation of the luminous regions above its atmosphere, and no heat would be conducted downwards through a gaseous medium increasing rapidly in density. That the penumbral clouds are highly reflective, the fact of their visibility in such a situation can leave no...