Time's TelescopeSherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1833 - Almanacs, English |
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... nature . One region enjoying a tempered succession of heat and cold , sunshine and shower , and arrayed with perennial cheerfulness ; another , a waste howling wilderness , unspanned by the arch of promise , -swift hurrying clouds ...
... nature . One region enjoying a tempered succession of heat and cold , sunshine and shower , and arrayed with perennial cheerfulness ; another , a waste howling wilderness , unspanned by the arch of promise , -swift hurrying clouds ...
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... nature imaginable , and the chance of a collision almost in- finitely removed . At the distance of the moon the comet of Biela would appear with a diameter twenty times greater than our satellite ; were it not for its pellucid nature ...
... nature imaginable , and the chance of a collision almost in- finitely removed . At the distance of the moon the comet of Biela would appear with a diameter twenty times greater than our satellite ; were it not for its pellucid nature ...
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... nature are inexhaustible : there is enough for the most indefatigable industry , the happiest opportunities , the most prolix and undisturbed vacancies . " The plan which we pursued last year of arranging our sketches of Natural History ...
... nature are inexhaustible : there is enough for the most indefatigable industry , the happiest opportunities , the most prolix and undisturbed vacancies . " The plan which we pursued last year of arranging our sketches of Natural History ...
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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