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Henry Warren Recreations In astronomy With Directions For Practical Experiments And Telescopic Work

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During All The Ages There Has Been One Bright And Glittering Page Of Loftiest Wisdom Unrolled Before The Eye Of Man. That This Page May Be Read In Every Part, Man'S Whole World Turns Him Before It. This Motion Apparently Changes The Eternally Stable Stars Into A Moving Panorama, But It Is Only So In Appearance. The Sky Is A Vast, Immovable Dial-Plate Of "That Clock Whose Pendulum Ticks Ages Instead Of Seconds," And Whose Time Is Eternity. The Moon Moves Among The Illuminated Figures, Traversing The Dial Quickly, Like A Second-Hand, Once A Month. The Sun, Like A Minute-Hand, Goes Over The Dial Once A Year. Various Planets Stand For Hour-Hands, Moving Over The Dial In Various Periods Reaching Up To One Hundred And Sixty-Four Years; While The Earth, Like A Ship Of Exploration, Sails The Infinite Azure, Bearing The Observers To Different Points Where They May Investigate The Infinite Problems Of This Mighty Machinery. [mehr]

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Henry Warren Recreations In Astronomy With Directions For Practical Experiments And Telescopic Work

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During All The Ages There Has Been One Bright And Glittering Page Of Loftiest Wisdom Unrolled Before The Eye Of Man. That This Page May Be Read In Every Part, Man's Whole World Turns Him Before It. This Motion Apparently Changes The Eternally Stable Stars Into A Moving Panorama, But It Is Only So In Appearance. The Sky Is A Vast, Immovable Dial-Plate Of "That Clock Whose Pendulum Ticks Ages Instead Of Seconds," And Whose Time Is Eternity. The Moon Moves Among The Illuminated Figures, Traversing The Dial Quickly, Like A Second-Hand, Once A Month. [mehr]

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Simon Newcomb Side-Lights On Astronomy And Kindred Fields Of Popular Science (Fiscle Part-X)

Kurzgeschichte
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In Preparing and Issuing this Collection Of Essays And Addresses, The Author Has Yielded to What He Could Not But Regard As The Too Flattering judgment Of The Publishers. Having done This, It Became Incumbent To Do What He Could To Justify Their Good Opinion By Revising The Material And Bringing it Up To Date. Interest Rather Than Unity Of Thought Has Determined the Selection. [mehr]

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E. Walter Maunder The Astronomy Of The Bible An Elementary Commentary On The Astronomical References Of Holy Scripture

Bibel
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Why should an astronomer write a commentary on the Bible? Because commentators as a rule are not astronomers, and therefore either pass over the astronomical allusions of Scripture in silence, or else annotate them in a way which, from a scientific point of view, leaves much to be desired. Astronomical allusions in the Bible, direct and indirect, are not few in number, and, in order to bring out their full significance, need to be treated astronomically. [mehr]

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E. Walter Maunder The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture

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METHOD OF STUDYING THE RECORD--To be discussed as it stands--An early Astronomical Observation. BEFORE THE BATTLE--Movements of the [mehr]

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Denison Olmsted Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection

with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers

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Denison Olmsted (June 18, 1791 - May 13, 1859), U.S. physicist and astronomer, was born at East Hartford, Connecticut. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon. In 1813, he graduated from Yale University, where he acted as college tutor from 1815 to 1817. In the latter year, he was appointed to the chair of chemistry, mineralogy and geology in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [mehr]

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