The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through CreationW.S. Orr, 1848 - 803 páginas |
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... less oblique , producing thereby the pheno- mena of the seasons , was one of the physical facts open to the notice of the early observers . They saw not only the day and night of the world , but the summer and winter of the world's year ...
... less oblique , producing thereby the pheno- mena of the seasons , was one of the physical facts open to the notice of the early observers . They saw not only the day and night of the world , but the summer and winter of the world's year ...
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... some notice , more or less distinct , taken by the ancients , of all the celestial phenomena which the unaided vision has observed in modern times , with one exception , that of an annular 14 HISTORY OF ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY .
... some notice , more or less distinct , taken by the ancients , of all the celestial phenomena which the unaided vision has observed in modern times , with one exception , that of an annular 14 HISTORY OF ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY .
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... less , when precisely the same effects are produceable by moving the less about the greater , our common sense is at once enlisted in favour of the latter hypothesis as Nature's " wise and frugal " plan . The apparent eccentricities of ...
... less , when precisely the same effects are produceable by moving the less about the greater , our common sense is at once enlisted in favour of the latter hypothesis as Nature's " wise and frugal " plan . The apparent eccentricities of ...
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... less remarkable . While the scheme of Copernicus retained the ancient idea of the heavenly bodies describing circles , it held also the notion of their velocities being uniform . But the mass of facts accumulated by Tycho proved that ...
... less remarkable . While the scheme of Copernicus retained the ancient idea of the heavenly bodies describing circles , it held also the notion of their velocities being uniform . But the mass of facts accumulated by Tycho proved that ...
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... less than at the surface of the earth . The problem , therefore , to be solved was , whether the versed sine of an arc described by the moon , which measures the space through which in the same time she would fall to the earth , if ...
... less than at the surface of the earth . The problem , therefore , to be solved was , whether the versed sine of an arc described by the moon , which measures the space through which in the same time she would fall to the earth , if ...
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The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation Thomas Milner No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2015 |
The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation Thomas Milner No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2015 |
The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation Thomas Milner No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
ancient appearance Aratus astronomers Atlantic Atlantic Ocean atmosphere Black Sea bodies Boötes cause cave cavern centre clouds coast colour comet constellation continent depth diameter direction distance districts earth east ecliptic elevation equator exhibits extent fall feet Flamstead globe heat heavens height Herschel Hipparchus horizon Humboldt hundred hyæna immense inhabitants island Jupiter lake land latitude light limestone lunar magnitude mass miles moon motion mountains nature nearly nebula night northern observed occur ocean orbit Orinoco owing passing perihelion period phenomena plains planets present Ptolemy Pyrenees rain regions remarkable rise rivers rock round sand Saturn scene seen shore side snow solar southern space spot springs square miles stars stone stream summit supposed surface telescope temperature terrestrial thousand trees Tycho Brahe Uranus Ursa Major valley vapour vast vegetation velocity visible volcanic whole wind winter zone
Pasajes populares
Página 689 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Página 552 - 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; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Página 74 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Página 571 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Página 326 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 180 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Página 574 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron: and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Página 536 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns.
Página 692 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Página 288 - And what are we, That hear the question of that voice sublime? Oh, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life, to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him Who drowned a world, and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains? — a light wave, That breaks, and whispers of its Maker's might.