Time's TelescopeSherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1833 - Almanacs, English |
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... Heaven's burning Altar roll . This glance over the starry firmament , which will be understood by those who are ... heavens through which the sun describes his apparent annual career , and occasionally diversified by a comet gliding ...
... Heaven's burning Altar roll . This glance over the starry firmament , which will be understood by those who are ... heavens through which the sun describes his apparent annual career , and occasionally diversified by a comet gliding ...
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... heavens , -that Venus and the earth appear to him as Mercury and Venus does to our planet . Mercury , it is probable , is not visible from Mars . The earth and moon exhibit the phases of the inferior planets , some- times half , or ...
... heavens , -that Venus and the earth appear to him as Mercury and Venus does to our planet . Mercury , it is probable , is not visible from Mars . The earth and moon exhibit the phases of the inferior planets , some- times half , or ...
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... heavens are displayed with astonishing magnificence . The sun is beheld with a diminished disc , one - fifth of what it appears to us ; its continuance above the horizon soon terminates , and night exhibits a scene of apparent and real ...
... heavens are displayed with astonishing magnificence . The sun is beheld with a diminished disc , one - fifth of what it appears to us ; its continuance above the horizon soon terminates , and night exhibits a scene of apparent and real ...
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1st day 4th day afterwards aphelion appears ascending node astronomer beautiful Beetle birds born Butterfly CALENDAR OF BRITISH celebrated celestial comet conjunction Daniel Bernoulli dark death Declin diameter died difference of latitude Digits eclipsed disc distance early earth eclipse Emersion eminent Equation FLEMING FORM OF SATURN'S Galileo greatest heavens Herschel inferior conjunction inferior planets insects John John Herschel Jupiter Kepler labours LEACH light LINNEUS Lord LUNAR magnitude Major axis Mars MARTYR Mercury Minor axis moon morning Moth motion nature never night node o'er Observatory observed orbit Pallas perigee perihelion period planet published QUADRUPEDS remarkable RENNIE revolution Right Ascen ring of Saturn round Royal SATURN'S RING says Second satellite seen Semi-diameter shadow shining solar solar eclipse stars STEPHENS telescope TEMMINCK thee thou tion transit transits of Mercury trees Uranus Venus visible volumes vulgaris winter