Lunar Science: Ancient and ModernS. Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Company, 1886 - 89 páginas |
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... appear- ance and the softness of her splendours . " " 2 THIS passage from a once noted but now neglected book , eloquently directs us to the sphere of our present inquiries . Whatever our degree in the artificial scale of human society ...
... appear- ance and the softness of her splendours . " " 2 THIS passage from a once noted but now neglected book , eloquently directs us to the sphere of our present inquiries . Whatever our degree in the artificial scale of human society ...
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... not a circle , this distance varies with her motions . During the perigee , when , as the word means , she is nearer to the earth , and appears larger , she is then within 225,719 miles ; but when in apogee , ΙΟ LUNAR SCIENCE .
... not a circle , this distance varies with her motions . During the perigee , when , as the word means , she is nearer to the earth , and appears larger , she is then within 225,719 miles ; but when in apogee , ΙΟ LUNAR SCIENCE .
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... still enlightened by a superior firmament of luminaries , which are planted at so great a distance that they may appear to the inhabitants of the former as the stars do to us ; in short , whilst I THE MOON'S DISTANCE . 15.
... still enlightened by a superior firmament of luminaries , which are planted at so great a distance that they may appear to the inhabitants of the former as the stars do to us ; in short , whilst I THE MOON'S DISTANCE . 15.
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... appear 13.5 times larger than the moon appears to us . " The late president of the Royal Astronomical Society tells us that " the mass of the moon is about the part of that of the earth , or , it would require eighty - one moons to make ...
... appear 13.5 times larger than the moon appears to us . " The late president of the Royal Astronomical Society tells us that " the mass of the moon is about the part of that of the earth , or , it would require eighty - one moons to make ...
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... appear equally large , though the distance of the sun is about four hundred times that of the moon . In fact , it would re- quire a million and a half moons to equal in magnitude one sun . An astronomical author informs us that " if the ...
... appear equally large , though the distance of the sun is about four hundred times that of the moon . In fact , it would re- quire a million and a half moons to equal in magnitude one sun . An astronomical author informs us that " if the ...
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Página 44 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess, excellently bright! Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose: Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess, excellently bright!
Página 17 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night — Sunset divides the sky with her — a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains ; heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be Melted to one vast Iris of the West, Where the day joins the past Eternity; While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest...
Página 38 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 79 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 57 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries ? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case ; I read it in thy looks ; thy languisht grace To me, that feel the like, thy state descries...
Página 5 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 51 - mong oldest trees Feel palpitations when thou lookest in : O Moon ! old boughs lisp forth a holier din The while they feel thine airy fellowship. Thou dost bless everywhere, with silver lip Kissing dead things to life.
Página 45 - TO THE MOON ART thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth...
Página 55 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.