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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... PATHWAY OF VENUS III . POSSIBLE CLIMATES PAGE 55 58 61 PART VI A RED PLANET I. WHAT WE SEE OF MARS 65 II . TWO LITTLE MOONS . 68 III . CANALS AND MARSHES 74 IV . IS MARS INHABITED ? 79 PART VII GIANT WORLDS 1 . LITTLE AND GREAT 83 II ...
... PATHWAY OF VENUS III . POSSIBLE CLIMATES PAGE 55 58 61 PART VI A RED PLANET I. WHAT WE SEE OF MARS 65 II . TWO LITTLE MOONS . 68 III . CANALS AND MARSHES 74 IV . IS MARS INHABITED ? 79 PART VII GIANT WORLDS 1 . LITTLE AND GREAT 83 II ...
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... pathway of Mars , like that of Jupiter , lies outside the pathway of Earth . Quite a small world is this interesting little globe , much smaller than Earth , though not so small as Mer- cury . He is one of our nearest celestial friends ...
... pathway of Mars , like that of Jupiter , lies outside the pathway of Earth . Quite a small world is this interesting little globe , much smaller than Earth , though not so small as Mer- cury . He is one of our nearest celestial friends ...
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... a - mile or a mile away , yet that does not make him as large as the house . Our Moon's distance from us is not always exactly 1 Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet . the same . She travels round in a pathway , THE SILVER MOON 37.
... a - mile or a mile away , yet that does not make him as large as the house . Our Moon's distance from us is not always exactly 1 Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet . the same . She travels round in a pathway , THE SILVER MOON 37.
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... pathway , or orbit , which may be described as slightly oval in shape , and the Earth is not at the precise centre of that oval . In one part of her monthly tour she is more than twenty - six thousand miles nearer to Earth than in ...
... pathway , or orbit , which may be described as slightly oval in shape , and the Earth is not at the precise centre of that oval . In one part of her monthly tour she is more than twenty - six thousand miles nearer to Earth than in ...
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... pathway of Venus round the Sun ; the next is the path- way of our Earth ; then comes the pathway of Mars ; and , lastly , you have the pathway of Jupiter . Other planets , nearer or farther than these , we are leaving alone for the ...
... pathway of Venus round the Sun ; the next is the path- way of our Earth ; then comes the pathway of Mars ; and , lastly , you have the pathway of Jupiter . Other planets , nearer or farther than these , we are leaving alone for the ...
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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.