Sun, Moon, and Stars: Astronomy for BeginnersSeeley and Company, 1894 - 303 Seiten |
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61 Cygni AGNES GIBERNE Alpha Centauri appear astronomers atmosphere attraction axis base-line body bright brilliant called centre changes circling round Cloth clouds colour comet constellations dark diameter distance earth eclipse eight farther globe heat heavens hundred Illustrations inferior planets journey round Jupiter Large-paper Copies larger less light look magnitude Mars Mercury meteorites meteors miles each second Milky millions of miles moon motion move movements naked eye nearer nearest nearly nebulæ Neptune night North Pole once onward orange orbit pass pathway photosphere Planetoids planets powerful telescope pull radiant rays reach ring rise round and round round the sun rush Saturn seems seen shape shining side Sirius slowly Solar System sometimes South Pole space speed spots stars sun's sunlight supposed surface tail thousand miles tiny ball travel round turn Uranus vast Venus visible W. J. LOFTIE watch whole
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Seite xiii - If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.
Seite 84 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number : he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power ; not one f aileth.
Seite 167 - Ah Lord God ! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee...
Seite 1 - The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S : but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
Seite 24 - The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
Seite 255 - He telleth the number of the stars; He calleth them all by their names.
Seite 235 - Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth. The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
Seite 124 - Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea ; Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south ; Which doeth great things past finding out ; yea, and wonders without number.
Seite 96 - Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars how high they are.