Time's TelescopeSherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1833 - Almanacs, English |
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... living languages , and devoted daily several hours to the study and practice of music . At eighteen , he not only surpassed all his contemporary pianoforte players , in execution , taste , and ex- pression , but had composed his ...
... living languages , and devoted daily several hours to the study and practice of music . At eighteen , he not only surpassed all his contemporary pianoforte players , in execution , taste , and ex- pression , but had composed his ...
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... living ; but in 1828 he finally lost it . The two following years he spent in travelling America , and afterwards resided at the Palais Royale in Paris . Here he expended considerable sums in forming a picture gallery , and every nook ...
... living ; but in 1828 he finally lost it . The two following years he spent in travelling America , and afterwards resided at the Palais Royale in Paris . Here he expended considerable sums in forming a picture gallery , and every nook ...
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... living astronomer , M. Biot , when he went to Shetland to determine the length of the pendulum , is said to have learned , on board the vessel which conveyed him , the use of Hadley's Sextant , one of the simplest instruments in ...
... living astronomer , M. Biot , when he went to Shetland to determine the length of the pendulum , is said to have learned , on board the vessel which conveyed him , the use of Hadley's Sextant , one of the simplest instruments in ...
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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