The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through CreationW.S. Orr, 1848 - 803 pages |
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... order of the government to be 5000 stadia , and consequently the result obtained for the length of the whole terrestrial circumference was 250,000 stadia . The great uncertainty ERA OF THE GREEK AND ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOLS . 9.
... order of the government to be 5000 stadia , and consequently the result obtained for the length of the whole terrestrial circumference was 250,000 stadia . The great uncertainty ERA OF THE GREEK AND ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOLS . 9.
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... whole diameter of the sun and The appearance of a new star in the time of Hipparchus is said to have induced him to make a catalogue of the fixed stars , in order that posterity might be able to recog- nise any changes that might take ...
... whole diameter of the sun and The appearance of a new star in the time of Hipparchus is said to have induced him to make a catalogue of the fixed stars , in order that posterity might be able to recog- nise any changes that might take ...
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... whole earth would not contain the whole of the man who whirled the earth itself in ether . The scheme of Copernicus was presented to the world in the form of hypothesis . It could not be broached in any other manner , for not until the ...
... whole earth would not contain the whole of the man who whirled the earth itself in ether . The scheme of Copernicus was presented to the world in the form of hypothesis . It could not be broached in any other manner , for not until the ...
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... whole of its descent , than the base . The result will be , that it will deviate from the plumb - line , and reach the ground a little to the east of c , the foot of the perpendicular . Experiment has confirmed the accuracy of this ...
... whole of its descent , than the base . The result will be , that it will deviate from the plumb - line , and reach the ground a little to the east of c , the foot of the perpendicular . Experiment has confirmed the accuracy of this ...
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... whole , we are not warranted in interpreting his rejection of it much to his disparage- ment . The career of Tycho is far more satisfactory as a practical astronomer than as a theorist ; indeed , few men have done so much for the ...
... whole , we are not warranted in interpreting his rejection of it much to his disparage- ment . The career of Tycho is far more satisfactory as a practical astronomer than as a theorist ; indeed , few men have done so much for the ...
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The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation Thomas Milner No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 689 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Page 552 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 74 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 571 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 326 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 180 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 574 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron: and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Page 536 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns.
Page 692 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Page 288 - And what are we, That hear the question of that voice sublime? Oh, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life, to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him Who drowned a world, and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains? — a light wave, That breaks, and whispers of its Maker's might.