The midnight sky, notes on the stars and planets, כרך 231869 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
The Midnight Sky, Notes on the Stars and Planets <span dir=ltr>Edwin Dunkin</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2015 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
aërolites Aldebaran Alpha Alpherat Andromeda appearance Aquarius Aquila Arcturus Argo Navis astronomers Auriga Australis Beta Beta Auriga Betelgeuse bolide Boötes bright stars brilliant Canis Canis Minor Capella Cassiopeia Castor celestial Centaurus Cepheus chief stars colour comet constellation Cor Caroli Corona Borealis Crux Australis Cygni Cygnus dark diagram diameter direction disk distance double stars Draco Draconis Earth east Eridanus fixed stars Gamma Gamma Pegasi heavens INDEX-MAP John Herschel Jupiter Kocab latitude light looking north Lyra meridian meteors midnight sky miles Milky Moon motion naked eye nearly nebula northern noticed objects observed occupied Ophiuchus orbit Orion pass Pegasus Perseus planet Polaris pole Pollux portion position principal stars Procyon Regulus remarkable Scorpio second magnitude seen Sir John Herschel Sirius small constellation small stars solar south horizon southern hemisphere spectrum Spica stellar Taurus telescope third magnitude Ursa Major Ursa Minor Vega Venus Virgo visible zenith zodiac
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 131 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
עמוד 223 - 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.
עמוד 313 - Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens and stretched them out ; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein...
עמוד 313 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
עמוד 313 - The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
עמוד 313 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
עמוד 100 - It is a time-piece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day, and no other group of stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an observation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim in the savannahs of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, 'Midnight is past, the Cross begins to bend!
עמוד 313 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing ; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
עמוד 315 - ... insecurity. We differ from the leaf only in this circumstance, that it would require the operation of greater elements to destroy us. But these elements exist. The fire which rages within may lift its devouring energy to the surface of our planet, and transform it into one wide and wasting volcano.
עמוד 315 - A breath of wind tears it from its stem, and it lights on the stream of water which passes underneath. In a moment of time the life, which we know by the microscope it teems with, is extinguished ; and an occurrence so insignificant in the eye of man, and...