American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Tom 2Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 |
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... stars were fixed in the heavens , and that the earth moved in a circle about the sun , at the same time that it revolved about its own axis . He determined , that the annual orbit of the earth , compared with the distance of the fixed stars ...
... stars were fixed in the heavens , and that the earth moved in a circle about the sun , at the same time that it revolved about its own axis . He determined , that the annual orbit of the earth , compared with the distance of the fixed stars ...
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... star , in a right sphere . It is found by the fol lowing proportion . As the radius to the nation , so is the tangent of the distance cosine of the sun or star's greatest decli- from Aries to Libra to the tangent of right ascension ...
... star , in a right sphere . It is found by the fol lowing proportion . As the radius to the nation , so is the tangent of the distance cosine of the sun or star's greatest decli- from Aries to Libra to the tangent of right ascension ...
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... star 2 ′′ more than it ought . If the clock be compared with several stars , and the mean error taken , we shall have more accurately the error at the mean time of all the observations . These observations being repeated every day ...
... star 2 ′′ more than it ought . If the clock be compared with several stars , and the mean error taken , we shall have more accurately the error at the mean time of all the observations . These observations being repeated every day ...
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... stars . OF THE FIGURE AND MOTION OF THE EARTH. Lead . Silver . Copper . 23 with requires 96 Lead . Copper- Silver . = with 23 requires 96 22 2 144 = 1 11 72 20 4 192 = 5 48 18 6 240 10 X 24 1 3 40 16 8 288 1 2 36 14 10 336 = • 1 12 33 12 ...
... stars . OF THE FIGURE AND MOTION OF THE EARTH. Lead . Silver . Copper . 23 with requires 96 Lead . Copper- Silver . = with 23 requires 96 22 2 144 = 1 11 72 20 4 192 = 5 48 18 6 240 10 X 24 1 3 40 16 8 288 1 2 36 14 10 336 = • 1 12 33 12 ...
Strona 22
... stars by the criteria introduced in the above defini- tions , maintains , that they differ in so ma- ny respects from both planets and comets , as to warrant his not referring them to either of these two classes . ASTHMA , in medicine ...
... stars by the criteria introduced in the above defini- tions , maintains , that they differ in so ma- ny respects from both planets and comets , as to warrant his not referring them to either of these two classes . ASTHMA , in medicine ...
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Strona 22 - The ideas of -goblins and sprites have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other.
Strona 22 - That which thus captivates their reasons, and leads men of sincerity blindfold from common sense, will, when examined, be found to be what we are speaking of ; some independent ideas, of no alliance to one another, are by education, custom and the constant din of their party, so coupled in their minds, that they always appear there together...