Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles: And Made Easy to Those who Have Not Studied Mathematics : to which are Added, a Plain Method of Finding the Distances of All the Planets from the Sun, by the Transit of Venus Over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761 : an Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of the Transit of Venus in the Year 1639 : And, of the Distances of All the Planets from the Sun, as Deduced from Observations of the Transit in the Year 1761Matthew Carey, 1809 - 533 من الصفحات |
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... star - like bodies , a term of recent invention , and applied to three small bodies ... stars , are all probably furnished with similar atınospheres . Attraction , is that power , either continually exerted by the Deity , according to a fixed ...
... star - like bodies , a term of recent invention , and applied to three small bodies ... stars , are all probably furnished with similar atınospheres . Attraction , is that power , either continually exerted by the Deity , according to a fixed ...
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... fixed star appears to make a complete revolution , and is 3m . 55 " .9 less than a mean solar day . The day , in civil reckoning , begins among different na- tions at different times . 1. Among most of the ancient eastern nations , and ...
... fixed star appears to make a complete revolution , and is 3m . 55 " .9 less than a mean solar day . The day , in civil reckoning , begins among different na- tions at different times . 1. Among most of the ancient eastern nations , and ...
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... fixed stars , distributed into their respective constellations . The use of the Globes , explains the manner of solving geographical and astronomical pro- blems , by means of artificial globes . Golden number , is the year of the lunar ...
... fixed stars , distributed into their respective constellations . The use of the Globes , explains the manner of solving geographical and astronomical pro- blems , by means of artificial globes . Golden number , is the year of the lunar ...
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... star has north dec . and the under signs when it has south dec . See Aberra- tion . Oblique ascension of a celestial ... fixed stars , from their immense dis- tance , have no sensible parallax . Parallax of the earth's annual orbit , at ...
... star has north dec . and the under signs when it has south dec . See Aberra- tion . Oblique ascension of a celestial ... fixed stars , from their immense dis- tance , have no sensible parallax . Parallax of the earth's annual orbit , at ...
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... Stars , or fixed stars , luminous bodies , at an immense dis- tance , appearing in all parts of the heavens . They all probably resemble the sun in matter and in magnitude , and are each the centre of a system , similar to the solar ...
... Stars , or fixed stars , luminous bodies , at an immense dis- tance , appearing in all parts of the heavens . They all probably resemble the sun in matter and in magnitude , and are each the centre of a system , similar to the solar ...
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angle appears April Aries ascending node beginning of egress body circle Clock conjunction degrees diameter diurnal diurnal motion Dominical letter Earth's axis Earth's centre eclipse equal equator equinoctial equinox fixed stars full Moon globe goes round half heavens horizon horizontal parallax inclined Julian period July June Jupiter latitude Leap-Year London longitude lunar lunation March mean Anomaly mean distance mean new Moon Mercury meridian miles minutes Moon's orbit motion noon north pole observed opposite parallel path penumbra planets plate polar circles revolution right line rising round the Earth round the Sun satellites Saturn seconds seen semidiameter Sept shewn side signs solar south pole subtract Sun and Moon Sun's centre Sun's disc Sun's mean suppose tides tion total ingress transit transit of Venus tropic tropic of Cancer tropic of Capricorn true turns round Venus Venus's