Scientific Dialogues,: Of mechanicsBaldwin and Cradock; and R. Hunter, 1828 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 23
עמוד 7
... half - crown between them , on a book , to raise it a little above the table . Tell me how many pieces of money you would suppose there were , if you did not know that I had used but one . James . There are several in the glasses ...
... half - crown between them , on a book , to raise it a little above the table . Tell me how many pieces of money you would suppose there were , if you did not know that I had used but one . James . There are several in the glasses ...
עמוד 8
... half- crown , will give you the idea of a vast number . Charles . If a little contrivance had been used to conceal the method of making the experiment , I should not have believed but that there had been several half - crowns instead of ...
... half- crown , will give you the idea of a vast number . Charles . If a little contrivance had been used to conceal the method of making the experiment , I should not have believed but that there had been several half - crowns instead of ...
עמוד 33
... half an hour's at- tention , you have nothing more to do in order to find the position of the planets at any day of the year , than to turn to that day in the Ephe- meris , and you will instantly be di- rected to those parts of the ...
... half an hour's at- tention , you have nothing more to do in order to find the position of the planets at any day of the year , than to turn to that day in the Ephe- meris , and you will instantly be di- rected to those parts of the ...
עמוד 100
... half of the earth by its rays , and as it is day at any given place on the globe , so long as that place continues in the enlightened hemisphere , every part , except the two poles , must , during it rotation on its axis , be one half ...
... half of the earth by its rays , and as it is day at any given place on the globe , so long as that place continues in the enlightened hemisphere , every part , except the two poles , must , during it rotation on its axis , be one half ...
עמוד 102
... still th ' horizon . PAR . LOST , BOOk x . 1. 672 . James . In what manner is this prevented ? Tutor . By the axis of the earth N s being inclined or sloped about 23 degrees and a half out of the perpen dicular , 102 ASTRONOMY .
... still th ' horizon . PAR . LOST , BOOk x . 1. 672 . James . In what manner is this prevented ? Tutor . By the axis of the earth N s being inclined or sloped about 23 degrees and a half out of the perpen dicular , 102 ASTRONOMY .
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
24 hours 95 millions annual motion appear Aries astronomers axis called centre Charles clock comet consequently CONVERSATION dark days and nights degrees dial diameter discovered distance diurnal motion earth's orbit ecliptic enlightened Ephemeris equal equator figure fixed stars full moon globe greater half heavens heliocentric hemisphere hence Herschel horizon inhabitants James journey round Julius Cæsar Jupiter larger latitude Leap-Year less Libra light and heat longitude magnitude Mars means Mercury meridian millions of miles minutes moon's nearer nearest noon observe parallel pass polar circles position rays retrograde motion revolves rise and set rotation round the earth round the sun satellites Saturn seasons seen shadow shine sidereal day situated Solar System spectator summer sun and earth sun's superior planets supposed surface synodical month tance thousand tides tion top-mast tropic tropic of Cancer turn Tutor tween Venus vertical visible winter
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 133 - evidence of things not seen," in the fulness of Divine grace ; and was profound on this, the greatest concern of human life, while unable even to comprehend how the " inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit" could be the cause of the change of the seasons.
עמוד 166 - 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 231 - Amid the radiant orbs, That more than deck — that animate — the sky, The life-infusing suns of other worlds ; Lo ! from the dread immensity of space Returning, with accelerated course, The rushing comet to the Sun descends ; And as he sinks below the shading earth, With awful train projected o'er the heavens, 1710 The guilty nations tremble.
עמוד 89 - In endless speculation, and adore ? One sun by day, by night ten thousand shine ; And light us deep into the Deity ; How boundless in magnificence and might!
עמוד 197 - 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.
עמוד 196 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
עמוד 6 - To ask or search I blame thee not, for heaven Is as the book of God before thee set, Wherein to read his wondrous works, and learn His seasons, hours, or days, or months, or years.
עמוד 148 - But opposite in levell'd west was set His mirror, with full face borrowing her light From him, for other light she needed none In that aspect, and still that distance keeps Till night...
עמוד 53 - Prime cheerer, light! Of all material beings first, and best ! Efflux divine ! Nature's resplendent robe ! Without whose vesting beauty all were wrapt In unessential gloom ; and thou, O sun ! Soul of surrounding worlds, in whom best seen Shines out thy Maker...
עמוד 196 - But do these worlds display their beams, or guide Their orbs, to serve thy use, to please thy pride ? Thyself but dust; thy stature but a span, A moment thy duration; foolish man! As well may the minutest emmet say, That Caucasus was...