Giant Sun and His FamilySilver, Burdett, 1906 - 167 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
appearance ARTHUR MEE asteroids astronomers attraction Baily's Beads ball Biela's comet bodies bright British Astronomical Association Burgos C. A. Young Camille Flammarion canals caused circle clouds color corona crater crescent dark discovered discovery disk Eclipse Expedition edge equal faint feet force of gravity Galileo globe glowing half height Herschel hour hundred journey Jupiter Lescarbault Leverrier Lick Observatory lines little moons look lunar mountains mass Mercury meteors miles a second miles in diameter moon moon of Jupiter moon's nearest nearly Neptune night observations oceans orbit outline passed path photographs photosphere probably R. A. Proctor rays red spot region resemble ring Saturn scene seen shadow bands shines side Simon Newcomb solar flames space Spain Spectroscope star station streamers sun spot sun's surface sunlight surrounding tail telescope tion total eclipse Tycho Uranus vapor Venus visible volcanoes Vulcan zodiacal light
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Seite 82 - The secrets of the hoary deep ; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension ; where length, breadth and height And time and place are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand...
Seite 154 - I could hear from most of the negroes of three plantations, amounting in all to about six or eight hundred. While earnestly listening for the cause, I heard a faint voice near the door calling my name. I arose, and taking my sword, stood at the door. At this moment, I heard the same voice still beseeching...
Seite 16 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Seite 154 - Upwards of one hundred lay prostrate on the ground, some speechless, and some with the bitterest cries, but with their hands raised, imploring God to save the world and them. The scene was truly awful ; for never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell towards the earth ; east, west, north, and south it was the same.
Seite 75 - Venus a pea, on a circle 284 feet in diameter; the Earth also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet; Mars a rather large pin's head, on a circle of...
Seite 2 - First the flaming Red Sprung vivid forth ; the tawny Orange next ; And next delicious Yellow ; by whose side Fell the kind beams of all-refreshing Green ; Then the pure Blue, that swells autumnal skies Ethereal...
Seite 154 - While earnestly listening for the cause, I heard a faint voice near the door calling my name. I arose, and taking my sword, stood at the door. At this moment, I heard the same voice still beseeching me to rise, and saying ' O my God, the. world is on fire...
Seite 87 - ... a handful; and so gently draws aside the curtain of night, and slowly lets the light fall on the face of the sleeping earth, till her eyelids open, and like man, she goeth forth again to her labour until the evening.
Seite 66 - Moigno, • so small, so simple, so modest, and so timid, in order to understand the emotion with which he was seized, when Leverrier, from his great height, and with that blunt intonation which he can command, thus addressed him : " It is then you, sir, who pretend to have observed the intra-mercurial planet, and who have committed the grave offence of keeping your observation secret for nine months. I warn you that I have come here with the intention of doing justice to your pretensions, and of...