Time's TelescopeSherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1834 - Almanacs, English |
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Page 136
... colour , -Bellatrix is white , and Betelgeux of a fiery scintillating colour . Some are orange , others ruddy purple , yellow , and crimson . Insulated stars of a red colour , almost as deep as that of blood , occur in many parts of the ...
... colour , -Bellatrix is white , and Betelgeux of a fiery scintillating colour . Some are orange , others ruddy purple , yellow , and crimson . Insulated stars of a red colour , almost as deep as that of blood , occur in many parts of the ...
Page 62
... colours of flowers . In drying specimens of plants for my herbarium , I have , likewise , observed several peculiar changes of colour take place , as for instance , the snowy white blossoms of Asperula odorata become black : the yellow ...
... colours of flowers . In drying specimens of plants for my herbarium , I have , likewise , observed several peculiar changes of colour take place , as for instance , the snowy white blossoms of Asperula odorata become black : the yellow ...
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... colour ; for if part of the mountain be covered with snow , which has strong reflective powers , this snow is still seen of a pure white colour . It has been ascertained , too , that the atmosphere , when seen from the top of a very ...
... colour ; for if part of the mountain be covered with snow , which has strong reflective powers , this snow is still seen of a pure white colour . It has been ascertained , too , that the atmosphere , when seen from the top of a very ...
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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