Myths and Marvels of AstronomyLongmans, Green, and Company, 1886 - 365 páginas |
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... Edition . Charts and Diagrams . 8vo , 10s . 6d . STAR ATLAS FOR ASTRONOMICAL STUDENTS AND OBSERVERS ; shewing 6,000 Stars and 1,500 Double Stars . Folio , 155 . SMALLER STAR ATLAS FOR THE LIBRARY , THE SCHOOL , AND THE OBSERVATORY ...
... Edition . Charts and Diagrams . 8vo , 10s . 6d . STAR ATLAS FOR ASTRONOMICAL STUDENTS AND OBSERVERS ; shewing 6,000 Stars and 1,500 Double Stars . Folio , 155 . SMALLER STAR ATLAS FOR THE LIBRARY , THE SCHOOL , AND THE OBSERVATORY ...
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... 66 66 OUR PLACE AMONG INFINITIES , ' THE EXPANSE OF HEAVEN , " PLEASANT WAYS IN ETC. , ETC TRANSFERRED TO U OF W LIBRARY . A NEW EDITION 509 LONDON LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . 1886 115,585 JAN 2 1 1902 HIRLOBICVT YT : 1008 BTC.
... 66 66 OUR PLACE AMONG INFINITIES , ' THE EXPANSE OF HEAVEN , " PLEASANT WAYS IN ETC. , ETC TRANSFERRED TO U OF W LIBRARY . A NEW EDITION 509 LONDON LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . 1886 115,585 JAN 2 1 1902 HIRLOBICVT YT : 1008 BTC.
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... edition the word ' defective ' is here used , entirely changing the meaning of the sentence . Bacon registers an Astrologia Sana amongst the things needed for the advancement of learning , whereas he is made to say that such an ...
... edition the word ' defective ' is here used , entirely changing the meaning of the sentence . Bacon registers an Astrologia Sana amongst the things needed for the advancement of learning , whereas he is made to say that such an ...
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... edition of the pamphlet , published in London in 1836 . But the original pamphlet edition , published in America in September 1835 , is not easily to be obtained . The proprie- tors of the New York ' Sun , ' in which the fictitious ...
... edition of the pamphlet , published in London in 1836 . But the original pamphlet edition , published in America in September 1835 , is not easily to be obtained . The proprie- tors of the New York ' Sun , ' in which the fictitious ...
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... edition was probably enlarged by the translator , who , according to this account , was Richard Alton Locke , ' to whom in America the whole credit , or discredit , of the hoax is commonly attributed . There can be no doubt that either ...
... edition was probably enlarged by the translator , who , according to this account , was Richard Alton Locke , ' to whom in America the whole credit , or discredit , of the hoax is commonly attributed . There can be no doubt that either ...
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according appeared astro astrologers astronomers believe bodies bright celestial centre Chaldæans Cheops comet constellations corresponding course creatures Crown 8vo dark ring degree diameter disc discovery distance Dragon earth Edition evidence existence fact favour globe Halley's comet heavens Herschel Hipparchus horary astrology horizon idea imagine inches indicated influence inhabitants interest John Herschel Jupiter king latitude Lescarbault Leverrier light lunar manifestly matter Mercury meteoric miles moon moon's motion native nature object observations observatory Ophiuchus paradoxist period planet planetary pole position present probably pyramid pyramid inches R. A. PROCTOR reason recognise regarded remarkable respecting ring-system round royal native satellites Saturn says scientific seems seen Smyth solar system southern space spirits spots star strange student of science suggested sun's supposed surface Swedenborg telescope theory thought tion travelling true Uranus Venus visible vols Vulcan zodiac
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Página 96 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan ; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Página 162 - ... and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapour of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.
Página 56 - In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
Página 28 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Página 258 - Audacious ; but, that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity : all unawares, Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb down he drops Ten thousand' fathom deep, and to this hour Down had been falling, had not by ill chance The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud, Instinct with fire and nitre, hurried him As many miles aloft...
Página 121 - Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Página 96 - And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich...
Página 263 - It is with no feeling of pride as an American that the remark may be made that on the comparatively small territorial surface of Europe there are existing upward of 130 of these light-houses of the skies, while throughout the whole American hemisphere there is not one.
Página 28 - This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars : as if we were villains on necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.
Página 6 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.