A Popular Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy: Designed as a Complete Guide to a Knowledge of the Heavenly Bodies and as an Aid to Those Possessing TelescopesG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1891 - 176 Seiten |
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5th magnitude star 7th magnitude companion Accordingly ancient ANDROMEDA appear AQUARIUS AQUILA ARGO ARIES astronomical AURIGA axis binary star bright CANCER CANIS MAJOR CAPRICORNUS CASSIOPEIA celestial CENTAURUS centre CEPHEUS CETUS Chart colour comets constellation constellation figures CORONA CRATER CYGNUS diameter disc discovered distance DOUBLE STARS DRACO earth ecliptic equator equinox ERIDANUS faint companion GEMINI heavens HERCULES Hipparchus horizon HYDRA instrument invented JUPITER latitude light longitude means meridian meteoric millions of miles moon motion movement moving nearly nebula Nile node object observations occupied OPHIUCHUS orbit orbs ORION path period PERSEUS PISCES planet Plate poles position Reflecting Telescope revolution revolving round RIGHT ASCENSION round the sun SAGITTARIUS satellite SATURN SCORPIO seen sidereal Sirius small stars small telescope solar solstice SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE sphere STAR CLUSTERS star-sphere sun's surface TAURUS terrestrial triple star URANUS URSA MAJOR URSA MINOR VARIABLE STARS velocity VIRGO visible zodiac
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Seite 43 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Seite 33 - Themselves in orisons! Thou material God! And representative of the unknown — Who chose thee for his shadow! Thou chief star! Centre of many stars ! which mak'st our earth Endurable, and temperest the hues And hearts of all who walk within thy rays! Sire of the seasons! Monarch of the climes, And those who dwell in them! for near or far, Our inborn spirits have a tint of thee Even as our outward aspects; — thou dost rise, And shine, and set in glory.
Seite 82 - 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 58 - The squares of the periods of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun ; that is, ti2 : k2 ,• ,• ai3 ,• (h3This is the so-called harmonic law.
Seite 19 - Roll on, ye stars ! exult in youthful prime, Mark with bright curves the printless steps of time ; Near and more near your beamy cars approach, And lessening orbs on lessening orbs encroach ; Flowers of the sky ! ye, too, to age must yield. Frail as your silken sisters of the field...
Seite 48 - For the source of glory uncovers his face, And the brightness o'erflows unbounded space; And we drink, as we go, the luminous tides In our ruddy air and our blooming sides: Lo, yonder the living splendors play; Away, on our joyous path, away!
Seite 4 - K1nder they call him. Labouring on his knees, Like one who sinks he seems; from both his shoulders His arms are raised ; each stretching on its side About a full arm's length. And his right foot Is planted on the twisting Serpent's head.
Seite 3 - So thought he good to make the stellar groups, That each by other lying orderly, They might display their forms. And thus the stars At once took names, and rise familiar now.
Seite xii - From sea to land, from land to sea. A chain of deepest action forging Round all, in wrathful energy. There flames a desolation, blazing Before the Thunder's crashing way: Yet, Lord, Thy messengers are praising The gentle movement of Thy Day. THE THREE: Though still by them uncomprehended, From these the angels draw their power, And all Thy works, sublime and splendid, Are bright as in Creation's hour.
Seite 9 - This beast seems to derive his own nature from that luminary (the sun), being in force and heat as superior to all other animals as the sun is to the stars. The lion is always seen with his eyes wide open and full of fire, so does the sun look upon the earth with open and fiery eye