Lunar Science: Ancient and ModernS. Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Company, 1886 - 89 páginas |
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... sun was nearer to the earth than the moon , probably because the sun was known to be hotter and brighter . To this day the Puránas of India teach that " the moon is 16 twice as far from the earth as the sun THE MOON'S DISTANCE . 13.
... sun was nearer to the earth than the moon , probably because the sun was known to be hotter and brighter . To this day the Puránas of India teach that " the moon is 16 twice as far from the earth as the sun THE MOON'S DISTANCE . 13.
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... probably quite near the truth . " 24 We are dazzled and dazed with the effulgence of such wondrous worlds . And when we further consider the moon , with its diameter of over 2,000 miles , and its circumfer- ence of 6,000 miles ...
... probably quite near the truth . " 24 We are dazzled and dazed with the effulgence of such wondrous worlds . And when we further consider the moon , with its diameter of over 2,000 miles , and its circumfer- ence of 6,000 miles ...
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... probably inhabited . " " 7 Twenty- three centuries have elapsed since Anaxagoras suffered , and we have not heard of the last martyr of science yet ! But to return to the moon's dimensions . The Stoics held that it was bigger than the ...
... probably inhabited . " " 7 Twenty- three centuries have elapsed since Anaxagoras suffered , and we have not heard of the last martyr of science yet ! But to return to the moon's dimensions . The Stoics held that it was bigger than the ...
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... probably not prevent its inhabitants ( if there are any ) from fancying themselves superior to us , and believing us to be their servants rather than their masters ; for it is generally known that the smaller people are , the more ...
... probably not prevent its inhabitants ( if there are any ) from fancying themselves superior to us , and believing us to be their servants rather than their masters ; for it is generally known that the smaller people are , the more ...
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... probably Persian , we enjoy the etymology which connects it with the Latin for gold . " Small photographs of the full moon look so much like photographs of a peeled orange , that , as Wendell Holmes notes , many persons suppose ...
... probably Persian , we enjoy the etymology which connects it with the Latin for gold . " Small photographs of the full moon look so much like photographs of a peeled orange , that , as Wendell Holmes notes , many persons suppose ...
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admiration ALPINE Anaxagoras Anaxi ancients appear astronomer autumnal equinox beauty Berosus Book of Joshua called celestial cloth gilt clouds CO.'S LIST Crown 8vo dark Demy 8vo Divine earth ecliptic Edition Empedocles entomologist Eratosthenes Flower-lore full moon globe glory Goddess excellently bright Greeks harvest moon heat heaven heavenly bodies Hebrews Heraclitus horizon Illustrated inhabitants Joshua libration light LIST OF BOOKS lunar mass measure months moon when birds moon's distance moon's motions moon's orbit mountains Muslim calendar Nasmyth and Carpenter nature night node Norman Lockyer ocean orange parallax Parmenides Persian planet poetic PROF Pythagoras real diameter revolution rise round the earth Sanskrit says seas shadow shine side silver Soahili SONNENSCHEIN & CO.'S spheres stars sun and moon SWAN SONNENSCHEIN tail Talmud telescope terrestrial thee thou thought tion twelve moons vapour W. F. KIRBY Brit whole woodcuts yojana YOUNG COLLECTOR'S HANDBOOK
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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.