Letters on Astronomy: Addressed to a Lady; in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connexion with Its Literary HistoryMarsh, Capen, Lyon and Webb, 1841 - 419 |
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... NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND ASTRONOMY IN YALE COLLEGE ; MEM- BER OF THE CONNECTICUT BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR COMMON SCHOOLS ; AUTHOR OF INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL PHILOSOPHY , AND ASTRONOMY , ETC. ETC. BOSTON : MARSH , CAPEN , LYON , AND WEBB ...
... NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND ASTRONOMY IN YALE COLLEGE ; MEM- BER OF THE CONNECTICUT BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR COMMON SCHOOLS ; AUTHOR OF INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL PHILOSOPHY , AND ASTRONOMY , ETC. ETC. BOSTON : MARSH , CAPEN , LYON , AND WEBB ...
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... natural attributes of the Deity , as furnished by astronomy , more fully and clearly exhibit- ed , than is done in any work which you have hitherto perused . In the preparation of the proposed treatise , you urged me to supply , either ...
... natural attributes of the Deity , as furnished by astronomy , more fully and clearly exhibit- ed , than is done in any work which you have hitherto perused . In the preparation of the proposed treatise , you urged me to supply , either ...
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... natural history of the heavens , is still more easily understood than the laws of the celestial motions . The revelations of the telescope , and the wonders it has disclosed in the sun , in the moon , in the planets , and especially in ...
... natural history of the heavens , is still more easily understood than the laws of the celestial motions . The revelations of the telescope , and the wonders it has disclosed in the sun , in the moon , in the planets , and especially in ...
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... Nature , that his cabinet is already collected , and is ever before him ; and he is exempted from the toil of collecting his materials of study and illustration , by traversing land and sea , or by penetrating into the depths of the ...
... Nature , that his cabinet is already collected , and is ever before him ; and he is exempted from the toil of collecting his materials of study and illustration , by traversing land and sea , or by penetrating into the depths of the ...
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... natural history . Having first learned a few definitions , and the principal circles into which , for convenience , the sphere is divided , and receiving the great laws of astronomy on the authority of the eminent persons who have ...
... natural history . Having first learned a few definitions , and the principal circles into which , for convenience , the sphere is divided , and receiving the great laws of astronomy on the authority of the eminent persons who have ...
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