Outlines of AstronomyLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, 1851 - 661 pages |
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... passing under his eye in an in- stant of time , and presented as a consecutive whole to his imagination . A familiar parallel , or an illustration drawn from some artificial or natural process , of which he has that direct and ...
... passing under his eye in an in- stant of time , and presented as a consecutive whole to his imagination . A familiar parallel , or an illustration drawn from some artificial or natural process , of which he has that direct and ...
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... passes here below , to what is going on in the regions where they exist and move . Under such conventions , astronomy , as a science of cause and effect , could not exist , but must be limited to a mere registry of appearances ...
... passes here below , to what is going on in the regions where they exist and move . Under such conventions , astronomy , as a science of cause and effect , could not exist , but must be limited to a mere registry of appearances ...
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... passing through the eye , the object , and the earth's centre . ( 40. ) The effect of the air's refraction , then , is to raise all the heavenly bodies higher above the horizon in appearance than they are in reality . Any such body ...
... passing through the eye , the object , and the earth's centre . ( 40. ) The effect of the air's refraction , then , is to raise all the heavenly bodies higher above the horizon in appearance than they are in reality . Any such body ...
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... passing through it , the lower most , the higher less , and that which , like SR O , merely grazes the exterior limit of the atmosphere , not at all . Let us consider several points , A , B , C , D , each more remote than the last from ...
... passing through it , the lower most , the higher less , and that which , like SR O , merely grazes the exterior limit of the atmosphere , not at all . Let us consider several points , A , B , C , D , each more remote than the last from ...
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... passing cloud would be pitchy darkness ; the stars would be visible all day , and every apartment , into which the ... passes obliquely from a higher level to a lower one , or vice versā , its course is not rectilinear , but concave ...
... passing cloud would be pitchy darkness ; the stars would be visible all day , and every apartment , into which the ... passes obliquely from a higher level to a lower one , or vice versā , its course is not rectilinear , but concave ...
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