The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through CreationW.S. Orr, 1848 - 803 sider |
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Side xxxi
... , with whom the vast scheme originated , and to whom alone it is reserved to estimate B its length and breadth , its depth and height . BIRS NIMROOD , THE EARLIEST SUPPOSED ASTRONOMICAL SITE . Mercury . Mars . 2 Jupiter . h Saturn .
... , with whom the vast scheme originated , and to whom alone it is reserved to estimate B its length and breadth , its depth and height . BIRS NIMROOD , THE EARLIEST SUPPOSED ASTRONOMICAL SITE . Mercury . Mars . 2 Jupiter . h Saturn .
Side 9
... of the government to be 5000 stadia , and consequently the result obtained for the length of the whole terrestrial circumference was 250,000 stadia . The great uncertainty ERA OF THE GREEK AND ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOLS . 9.
... of the government to be 5000 stadia , and consequently the result obtained for the length of the whole terrestrial circumference was 250,000 stadia . The great uncertainty ERA OF THE GREEK AND ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOLS . 9.
Side 10
... length of the tropical year , which had been previously held to be 3654 days . This he discovered to be an error in excess , by comparing one of his own observations of the summer solstice , with another made by Aristarchus of Samos ...
... length of the tropical year , which had been previously held to be 3654 days . This he discovered to be an error in excess , by comparing one of his own observations of the summer solstice , with another made by Aristarchus of Samos ...
Side 15
... length of the meridional shadows cast at the times of the summer and winter solstices by means of a vertical pillar . It is scarcely to be doubted that such a simple and obvious way of approximating to the length of the year must have ...
... length of the meridional shadows cast at the times of the summer and winter solstices by means of a vertical pillar . It is scarcely to be doubted that such a simple and obvious way of approximating to the length of the year must have ...
Side 16
... length of the natural day increased or diminished . A great variety of instruments were constructed by the Alexandrians . Astrolabes , or armillary spheres , were used in the observance of solar and sidereal phenomena . These , in the ...
... length of the natural day increased or diminished . A great variety of instruments were constructed by the Alexandrians . Astrolabes , or armillary spheres , were used in the observance of solar and sidereal phenomena . These , in the ...
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ancient appearance Aratus astronomers Atlantic Atlantic Ocean atmosphere Black Sea bodies Boötes cause cave cavern centre clouds coast colour comet constellation continent depth diameter direction distance districts earth east ecliptic elevation equator exhibits extent fall feet Flamstead globe heat heavens height Herschel Hipparchus horizon Humboldt hundred hyæna immense inhabitants island Jupiter lake land latitude light limestone lunar magnitude mass miles moon motion mountains nature nearly nebula night northern observed occur ocean orbit Orinoco owing passing perihelion period phenomena plains planets present Ptolemy Pyrenees rain regions remarkable rise rivers rock round sand Saturn scene seen shore side snow solar southern space spot springs square miles stars stone stream summit supposed surface telescope temperature terrestrial thousand trees Tycho Brahe Uranus Ursa Major valley vapour vast vegetation velocity visible volcanic whole wind winter zone
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Side 689 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Side 552 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Side 74 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Side 571 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Side 326 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Side 180 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Side 574 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron: and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Side 536 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns.
Side 692 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Side 288 - And what are we, That hear the question of that voice sublime? Oh, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life, to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him Who drowned a world, and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains? — a light wave, That breaks, and whispers of its Maker's might.