This Wonderful Universe: A Little Book about Suns and Worlds, Moons and Meteors, Comets, and NebulæSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1920 - Всего страниц: 182 |
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... look outside at the fields , the trees , the houses , the villages , seen through the windows . This is just what one on Earth must do , if he would discover the movements of our globe from changes in the scenery . He must look right ...
... look outside at the fields , the trees , the houses , the villages , seen through the windows . This is just what one on Earth must do , if he would discover the movements of our globe from changes in the scenery . He must look right ...
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... look beyond the clouds , beyond the great deep ocean of air , which really is a part of our Earth . He would have to lift his gaze into the sky , where float the Moon and Sun , the planets and the stars . Then at last he would find ...
... look beyond the clouds , beyond the great deep ocean of air , which really is a part of our Earth . He would have to lift his gaze into the sky , where float the Moon and Sun , the planets and the stars . Then at last he would find ...
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... look , as seen from our Earth ; to learn something of the various groups or " constella- tions ; " to become acquainted with the shapes and names of such constellations , and their places in the heavens ; also to understand a little ...
... look , as seen from our Earth ; to learn something of the various groups or " constella- tions ; " to become acquainted with the shapes and names of such constellations , and their places in the heavens ; also to understand a little ...
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... Look for the stars , you'll say that there are none ; Look up a second time , and one by one You mark them twinkling out with silvery light , And wonder how they could elude the sight . ' 66 The above illustration of balloon and hall is ...
... Look for the stars , you'll say that there are none ; Look up a second time , and one by one You mark them twinkling out with silvery light , And wonder how they could elude the sight . ' 66 The above illustration of balloon and hall is ...
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... look for them . Such watching as this means the giving of time and trouble , but it is worth while . Even while we must all depend largely on what others can tell us , since there is an enormous amount which we could never discover for ...
... look for them . Such watching as this means the giving of time and trouble , but it is worth while . Even while we must all depend largely on what others can tell us , since there is an enormous amount which we could never discover for ...
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AGNES GIBERNE Arcturus astronomers atmosphere axis ball base-line blazing bright lines canals centre circling round clouds comet COMPARATIVE SIZES constellations cool dark body distance Earth earthly eclipse enormous equator eyes farther floating gases globe heat heavenly bodies heavens hundred thousand miles imagine inch inhabited journey round Jupiter less light look Mars Martian canals masses mean Mercury meteorites miles each second millions of miles MINOR PLANETS Moon Moon's MOUNT WILSON OBSERVATORY nearer nearest nebulæ Neptune night north pole oceans once onward orbit outer passed perhaps PHOTOGRAPH photosphere planets position possible question radiant Rings round and round round the Sun Saturn seems seen shape shine side Sirius slant Solar System solid sometimes south pole space speed spins Starry System stars straight Sun's sunlight supposed surface telescope tiny travel round Universe Uranus vast Venus visible whirl whole wonderful YERKES OBSERVATORY
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Стр. 93 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Стр. 4 - 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 : Silence was pleased. Now...
Стр. 130 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Стр. 8 - While fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ? Why do we then shun death with anxious strife ? If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life ? — JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE.
Стр. 73 - THE night is come, but not too soon ; And sinking silently, All silently, the little moon Drops down behind the sky. There is no light in earth or heaven, But the cold light of stars ; And the first watch of night is given To the red planet Mars.
Стр. 93 - Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : 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.
Стр. 142 - Laurence's Cell. Enter Friar LAURENCE, with a basket. Fri. The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night, Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light...
Стр. 8 - MYSTERIOUS night ! when our first parent knew Thee from report Divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus, with the host of heaven, came, And lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Стр. 93 - Repeats the story of her birth ; 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. What, though In solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball ; What though...
Стр. 142 - I must up-fill this osier cage of ours With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers. The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb; What is her burying grave that is her womb, And from her womb children of divers kind We sucking on her natural bosom find, Many for many virtues excellent, None but for some and yet all different.