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... moon , Not like thin ghosts , or disembodied creatures , But with thy bones and flesh , and limbs and features . Tell us , for doubtless thou canst recollect , To whom we should assign the sphinx's fame ; Was Cheops or Cephrenes ...
... moon , Not like thin ghosts , or disembodied creatures , But with thy bones and flesh , and limbs and features . Tell us , for doubtless thou canst recollect , To whom we should assign the sphinx's fame ; Was Cheops or Cephrenes ...
Page 129
... moon at the full . Galileo might previously have supposed this was likely to be true , but now he saw it with his own eyes , as distinctly as he could observe the changes of the moon . When Venus is between the earth and the sun , she ...
... moon at the full . Galileo might previously have supposed this was likely to be true , but now he saw it with his own eyes , as distinctly as he could observe the changes of the moon . When Venus is between the earth and the sun , she ...
Page 131
... moon walking in brightness , " or the stars appearing one after another in the evening sky , without experiencing something of the sweet and solemn feeling , which led the Psalmist to exclaim , " The heavens declare the glory of God ...
... moon walking in brightness , " or the stars appearing one after another in the evening sky , without experiencing something of the sweet and solemn feeling , which led the Psalmist to exclaim , " The heavens declare the glory of God ...
Page 132
... moons , which revolve round him at different distances , and in different periods of time . Nor was this a mere spectacle to be admired , without leading to any important result . The eclipses of the moons of Jupiter have enabled ...
... moons , which revolve round him at different distances , and in different periods of time . Nor was this a mere spectacle to be admired , without leading to any important result . The eclipses of the moons of Jupiter have enabled ...
Page 135
... independent of the motion of the vessel , they are obliged to have recourse to other means . An eclipse of the moon , like those of the satellites of Jupiter , may be seen from every 136 VARIOUS MODES OF part of the earth , where.
... independent of the motion of the vessel , they are obliged to have recourse to other means . An eclipse of the moon , like those of the satellites of Jupiter , may be seen from every 136 VARIOUS MODES OF part of the earth , where.
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ACHROMATIC TELESCOPE Alexander Severus ancient appear Arnott astronomer basin beads beautiful beneath bright burning-glasses called camera-obscura concave mirror contrived converging convex lens cool crown-glass crystalline lens dark deception discovery distance distinct Dollond double convex eclipse ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES employed experiment eye-glass farther Father Scheiner feet FINDING THE LONGITUDE flint-glass focus Galileo glass globe Greenwich heat HERCULANEUM Hutton ingenious instrument inverted Joyce Jupiter kinds of glass Lardner LECTURE lenses look looking-glass magnified means melted microscope moon Mosaic Mount Etna Mysteries object object-glass observe OPTICAL oven pass perceive person phantom phial picture pieces of glass placed plate-glass PORTLAND VASE power of refraction prism produced quicksilver rays of light rays proceeding reflected REFLECTING TELESCOPES refraction retina Roman round sand seems seen Septimius Severus shilling ship specimen substance suppose surface telescope thing tin-foil TRANSIT OF VENUS transparent tube window word