The gallery of nature: a tour through creation, Том 281860 |
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... cause of which Laplace has satisfactorily explained . Ptolemy distinctly refers to Chaldea as furnishing the best ... causes overlooked , but being plainly dependent upon celestial appearances , the art of judicial astrology had its ...
... cause of which Laplace has satisfactorily explained . Ptolemy distinctly refers to Chaldea as furnishing the best ... causes overlooked , but being plainly dependent upon celestial appearances , the art of judicial astrology had its ...
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... cause of which remained a secret till the age of Newton . The catalogue formed by Hipparchus contained 1080 stars . The labour it involved , and its use , called forth the strong language of 10 HISTORY OF ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY .
... cause of which remained a secret till the age of Newton . The catalogue formed by Hipparchus contained 1080 stars . The labour it involved , and its use , called forth the strong language of 10 HISTORY OF ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY .
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Thomas Milner. nected with long calculations . If Newton developed the cause of those laws , he started to his grand result from a point expressly prepared by Keppler , and left the solution of the problem imperfect for Laplace to finish ...
Thomas Milner. nected with long calculations . If Newton developed the cause of those laws , he started to his grand result from a point expressly prepared by Keppler , and left the solution of the problem imperfect for Laplace to finish ...
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... causes of those motions was the achievement of Newton . So far however from gaining universal assent when first pro ... cause of the planetary motions . Thus Keppler surmised an attractive force to reside in the sun , producing these ...
... causes of those motions was the achievement of Newton . So far however from gaining universal assent when first pro ... cause of the planetary motions . Thus Keppler surmised an attractive force to reside in the sun , producing these ...
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... cause perpetually operating , the effect is constant ; and hence the formation of the terrestrial orbit , and the cause extending to the other bodies in the system , the planetary orbs are deflected from their natural rectilinear paths ...
... cause perpetually operating , the effect is constant ; and hence the formation of the terrestrial orbit , and the cause extending to the other bodies in the system , the planetary orbs are deflected from their natural rectilinear paths ...
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Стр. 681 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Стр. 544 - 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.
Стр. 72 - 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.
Стр. 563 - 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.
Стр. 714 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Стр. 320 - 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.
Стр. 256 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter : therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Стр. 203 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God ! — let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer ! and let the ice-plains echo, God ! God!
Стр. 684 - 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.
Стр. 5 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears— soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony...