The Call of the Stars: A Popular Introduction to a Knowledge of the Starry Skies with Their Romance and LegendG. P. Putnam's sons, 1919 - 431 стор. |
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Alpha Andromeda appear Aratus Arcturus astronomer beautiful Beta Boötes bright stars brighter brightest brilliant called Capella Capricornus Cassiopeia celestial Cepheus Cetus cluster colour comet companion star constellation crater cross motion dark degrees Delta diameter Dipper disk distance double star Earth east eclipse Epsilon equator equinox feet four fourth-magnitude star Gamma half heavens horizon hundred Jupiter known light years distant lunar marked Mars meridian meteors miles a second Milky million miles minutes Moon naked eye nearly nebula Neptune night northern Observatory PLATE observer Ophiuchus orbit Orion Pegasus period Perseus planet planetoids Pleiades pole Pollux principal star proper or cross revolves satellite Saturn Scorpion second magnitude seen Sirius sixth magnitude solar system southern spectroscope spectroscopic binary surface tail telescope third magnitude third-magnitude star tion Uranus Ursa Major variable variable star Vega Venus vernal equinox visible Yerkes Observatory zenith Zeta zodiac
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Сторінка 394 - And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem.
Сторінка 393 - Lo ! from the dread immensity of space Returning, with accelerated course, The rushing comet to the Sun descends ; And as he sinks below the shading earth, With awful train projected o'er the Heavens, The guilty nations tremble.
Сторінка 156 - Away, away ! in our blossoming bowers, In the soft air wrapping these spheres of ours, In the seas and fountains that shine with morn, See, Love is brooding, and Life is born, And breathing myriads are breaking from night, To rejoice, like us, in motion and light.
Сторінка 69 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Сторінка 257 - 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,
Сторінка 216 - ... therefore, if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune ; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky ; which is a meeting, or knot of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather .'acuities and customs that make men fortunate : the Italians note some of them, such as a man would little think.
Сторінка 251 - 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.
Сторінка 28 - 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.
Сторінка 262 - Every particle of matter, in the universe, attracts every other particle with a force, which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
Сторінка 150 - But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view...