The Planet Earth: An Astronomical Introduction to Geography

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Macmillan, 1894 - Всего страниц: 108

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Стр. 59 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Стр. 41 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Стр. 63 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
Стр. 5 - But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd, and resting quality, There is no fellow in the firmament.
Стр. 62 - For several ages he saw in the countless worlds that sparkle through space like the bubbles of a shoreless ocean only the petty candles, the household torches, that Providence had been pleased to light for no other purpose but to make the night more agreeable to man. Astronomy has corrected this delusion of human vanity : and man now reluctantly confesses that the stars are worlds, larger and more glorious than his own, — that the earth on which he crawls is a scarce visible speck on the vast chart...
Стр. 5 - The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks; They are all fire and every one doth shine; But there's but one in all doth hold his place.
Стр. 61 - Thro' cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing : My mood is changed, for it fell at a time of year When the face of night is fair on the dewy downs, And the shining daffodil dies, and the Charioteer And starry Gemini hang like glorious crowns Over Orion's grave low down in the west...
Стр. 104 - Every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which is directly proportional to the product of the masses of the particles and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
Стр. 62 - Man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him. For several ages he saw in the countless worlds that sparkle through space like the bubbles of a shoreless ocean only the petty candles, the household torches, that Providence had been pleased to light for no other purpose but to make the night more agreeable to man.
Стр. 56 - The specific gravity is the ratio of the weight of a substance to the weight of an equal volume of water.

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