Time's TelescopeSherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1834 - Almanacs, English |
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... MERCURY . When Mercury is examined with a telescope of high power , it exhibits similar phases to our moon , appearing sometimes with a crescent , sometimes semi - lunar , and at other times with nearly a full orb . Though carefully ...
... MERCURY . When Mercury is examined with a telescope of high power , it exhibits similar phases to our moon , appearing sometimes with a crescent , sometimes semi - lunar , and at other times with nearly a full orb . Though carefully ...
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... Mercury visible in England will occur in the afternoon of the 8th May , 1845. The sun will set with the planet on its disc . In the preceding month , Mercury , the sun , the moon , Venus and Uranus are nearly in conjunction , and Mars ...
... Mercury visible in England will occur in the afternoon of the 8th May , 1845. The sun will set with the planet on its disc . In the preceding month , Mercury , the sun , the moon , Venus and Uranus are nearly in conjunction , and Mars ...
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... MERCURY . First Mercury amidst full tides of light , Rolls next the sun , through his small circle bright . All that dwell there must be refined and pure ; Bodies like ours , such ardour can't endure ; Our earth would blaze beneath so ...
... MERCURY . First Mercury amidst full tides of light , Rolls next the sun , through his small circle bright . All that dwell there must be refined and pure ; Bodies like ours , such ardour can't endure ; Our earth would blaze beneath so ...
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15th.-Illuminated disc 1st day 2d day 4th day altitude animalcules appearance Aquarii astronomers atmosphere axis beautiful birds bodies Capricorni Cassiopeia centre Cepheus Ceres colour Coma Berenices comet commenced conjunction dark Declination Delphinus diameter DIED difference of latitude distance double star earth eclipse EDWARD BLYTH Emersion feathers FIXED STARS Flamstead flowers fluid Geminorum Greatest and least greatest eastern elongation heaven Herschel horizon Immersion inferior conjunction John Herschel Jupiter least magnitude Leo Minor light MARTYR Mercury Meridian Transit months Moon morning motion nature nest night North Dec observed ox-eye perigee perihelion period PHENOMENA PLANETARUM planet remarkable Right Ascen ring rise round Saturn Second satellite seen semi-diameter shadow solar South Dec species spots sun's sweet Tauri TELESCOPIC OBJECTS thee Third satellite tion tree Uranus Ursa Ursa Major velocity Venus Vesta Virginis visible wing Wormegay young zenith