Time's TelescopeSherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1834 - Almanacs, English |
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Page 31
... feet in a second , it would entirely fly off from the sys- tem , and never return ! If the velocity of the earth were about 101,000 feet in a second , or a little less than what it actually possesses , the orbit would be exactly ...
... feet in a second , it would entirely fly off from the sys- tem , and never return ! If the velocity of the earth were about 101,000 feet in a second , or a little less than what it actually possesses , the orbit would be exactly ...
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... FEET WHEN THROWN FROM A HEIGHT . - The instinct which all animals seem to possess , in bringing the line of direction of the centre of pressure within the base , is admirable . It is this instinct which renders the wild goat and the ...
... FEET WHEN THROWN FROM A HEIGHT . - The instinct which all animals seem to possess , in bringing the line of direction of the centre of pressure within the base , is admirable . It is this instinct which renders the wild goat and the ...
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... feet the length , and by two feet twice the width of the parochial church just mentioned . Few persons , indeed , save those to whom habit has rendered it familiar , form any thing like just estimates of the actual size of trees . The ...
... feet the length , and by two feet twice the width of the parochial church just mentioned . Few persons , indeed , save those to whom habit has rendered it familiar , form any thing like just estimates of the actual size of trees . The ...
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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