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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... . Eclipses , 195 LETTER XIX . Longitude . - Tides , 208 LETTER XX . Planets . Mercury and Venus , 225 LETTER XXI . Superior Planets : Mars , Jupiter , Saturn , and Uranus , 243 LETTER XXII . Copernicus . - Galileo , • LETTER 6 CONTENTS .
... . Eclipses , 195 LETTER XIX . Longitude . - Tides , 208 LETTER XX . Planets . Mercury and Venus , 225 LETTER XXI . Superior Planets : Mars , Jupiter , Saturn , and Uranus , 243 LETTER XXII . Copernicus . - Galileo , • LETTER 6 CONTENTS .
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... tides prevail upon the main , And in what dark recess they shrink again ; What shakes the solid earth , what cause delays The Summer nights , and shortens Winter days . " M- Dryden's Virgil . DEAR MADAM , —In the conversation we ...
... tides prevail upon the main , And in what dark recess they shrink again ; What shakes the solid earth , what cause delays The Summer nights , and shortens Winter days . " M- Dryden's Virgil . DEAR MADAM , —In the conversation we ...
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... tides ; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run , Correct old Time , and regulate the sun . " - Pope . I THINK you must have felt some astonishment , that astronomers are able to calculate the exact distances and magnitudes of the sun ...
... tides ; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run , Correct old Time , and regulate the sun . " - Pope . I THINK you must have felt some astonishment , that astronomers are able to calculate the exact distances and magnitudes of the sun ...
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... TIDES . 66 First in his east , the glorious lamp was seen , Regent of day , and all the horizon round Invested with bright rays , jocund to run His longitude through heaven's high road ; the gray Dawn and the Pleiades before him danced ...
... TIDES . 66 First in his east , the glorious lamp was seen , Regent of day , and all the horizon round Invested with bright rays , jocund to run His longitude through heaven's high road ; the gray Dawn and the Pleiades before him danced ...
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... never been known . Stud- ies , therefore , the most abstruse , are , when viewed as furnishing rules to act , often productive of the highest practical utility . Since the tides are occasioned by the influence of the LONGITUDE . 215.
... never been known . Stud- ies , therefore , the most abstruse , are , when viewed as furnishing rules to act , often productive of the highest practical utility . Since the tides are occasioned by the influence of the LONGITUDE . 215.
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