The Planet Earth: An Astronomical Introduction to GeographyMacmillan, 1894 - Всего страниц: 108 |
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... rise straight up and set straight down ; at the poles the stars describe circles parallel to the horizon . In middle latitudes there are ( 1 ) stars which never set ; ( 2 ) stars which never rise ; ( 3 ) stars which both rise and set ...
... rise straight up and set straight down ; at the poles the stars describe circles parallel to the horizon . In middle latitudes there are ( 1 ) stars which never set ; ( 2 ) stars which never rise ; ( 3 ) stars which both rise and set ...
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... the seaside , a small show the topmasts of ships rising above while the lower parts are quite out of sig Evidently a flat surface is at variance simple observations . The existence of a cu and of a curved surface only , will explain the.
... the seaside , a small show the topmasts of ships rising above while the lower parts are quite out of sig Evidently a flat surface is at variance simple observations . The existence of a cu and of a curved surface only , will explain the.
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... rising to the people at St. Louis and setting at Calcutta . It is mid - day , " we telegraph to New Zealand . " With us it is mid- night , " the New Zealanders answer from their watch- towers . Twelve hours later the orb of day shines ...
... rising to the people at St. Louis and setting at Calcutta . It is mid - day , " we telegraph to New Zealand . " With us it is mid- night , " the New Zealanders answer from their watch- towers . Twelve hours later the orb of day shines ...
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... rise to any inquiry as to the cause producing it . Day after day the " God of Light " rises and puts life into a drowsy earth . When he departs , the flowers droop their heads in sadness , our own vital energy declines , and all nature ...
... rise to any inquiry as to the cause producing it . Day after day the " God of Light " rises and puts life into a drowsy earth . When he departs , the flowers droop their heads in sadness , our own vital energy declines , and all nature ...
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An Astronomical Introduction to Geography Sir Richard Gregory. time to rise on the following morning . Though this ... rising " like a giant refreshed " on the following morning . Probably the sinking and subsequent rising of a diver ...
An Astronomical Introduction to Geography Sir Richard Gregory. time to rise on the following morning . Though this ... rising " like a giant refreshed " on the following morning . Probably the sinking and subsequent rising of a diver ...
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The Planet Earth: An Astronomical Introduction to Geography Sir Richard Gregory Полный просмотр - 1894 |
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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.