Time's TelescopeSherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1833 - Almanacs, English |
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Page 74
... seems to be admitted that her character of mind was such as to exert great influence on the taste and intellect of her son . Sir Walter was born at Edinburgh on the 15th of August , 1771. He was the third of a family , consisting of six ...
... seems to be admitted that her character of mind was such as to exert great influence on the taste and intellect of her son . Sir Walter was born at Edinburgh on the 15th of August , 1771. He was the third of a family , consisting of six ...
Page 76
... seems to have discovered a taste for drawing , being very fond of copying landscapes from nature . We are not told that his progress was very great . Local circumstances seem to have had considerable influence in disposing his mind to a ...
... seems to have discovered a taste for drawing , being very fond of copying landscapes from nature . We are not told that his progress was very great . Local circumstances seem to have had considerable influence in disposing his mind to a ...
Page 187
... seems to have been warm , as appears from the conduct of his dispute with Huygens ; and conscious perhaps of his own merits as a discoverer , he seems to have been jealous of losing any portion of his reputation by the improvements of ...
... seems to have been warm , as appears from the conduct of his dispute with Huygens ; and conscious perhaps of his own merits as a discoverer , he seems to have been jealous of losing any portion of his reputation by the improvements of ...
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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