Time's TelescopeSherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1834 - Almanacs, English |
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... bodies even the sun , and all the other planets of the solar system , to have existed long before the earth . The chaos on which the spirit of God moved , consisted , ac- cording to him , of the first principles from which all ...
... bodies even the sun , and all the other planets of the solar system , to have existed long before the earth . The chaos on which the spirit of God moved , consisted , ac- cording to him , of the first principles from which all ...
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... bodies move in the same direction is it not exceedingly probable , that they re- ceived their direction from a single stroke , or at least from strokes every way similar ? Thirdly . When several bodies in motion have not only the same ...
... bodies move in the same direction is it not exceedingly probable , that they re- ceived their direction from a single stroke , or at least from strokes every way similar ? Thirdly . When several bodies in motion have not only the same ...
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... bodies to be already created . Buffon assumes the existence of comets and the sun . La Place , to form * This fact seems to be philosophically certain , that all the bodies which compose our planetary system must have been placed at one ...
... bodies to be already created . Buffon assumes the existence of comets and the sun . La Place , to form * This fact seems to be philosophically certain , that all the bodies which compose our planetary system must have been placed at one ...
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15th.-Illuminated disc 1st day 2d day 4th day altitude animalcules appearance Aquarii astronomers atmosphere axis beautiful birds bodies Capricorni Cassiopeia centre Cepheus Ceres colour Coma Berenices comet commenced conjunction dark Declination Delphinus diameter DIED difference of latitude distance double star earth eclipse EDWARD BLYTH Emersion feathers FIXED STARS Flamstead flowers fluid Geminorum Greatest and least greatest eastern elongation heaven Herschel horizon Immersion inferior conjunction John Herschel Jupiter least magnitude Leo Minor light MARTYR Mercury Meridian Transit months Moon morning motion nature nest night North Dec observed ox-eye perigee perihelion period PHENOMENA PLANETARUM planet remarkable Right Ascen ring rise round Saturn Second satellite seen semi-diameter shadow solar South Dec species spots sun's sweet Tauri TELESCOPIC OBJECTS thee Third satellite tion tree Uranus Ursa Ursa Major velocity Venus Vesta Virginis visible wing Wormegay young zenith