Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around Us. To which are Added Essays on Astrology and the Jewish SabbathH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 323 pagini |
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Pagina 97
... colour was white , with a pale train tinged now and then with a very faint greenish hue . The head seldom equalled in brightness a star of the first magnitude . From time to time , however , a meteor of unusual splendour would appear ...
... colour was white , with a pale train tinged now and then with a very faint greenish hue . The head seldom equalled in brightness a star of the first magnitude . From time to time , however , a meteor of unusual splendour would appear ...
Pagina 109
... colour , its ordinary hue . We have , in fact , reached the close of a period of disturbance , and have received a definite answer to questions which had arisen as to the reality of the change described by observers . Many astronomers ...
... colour , its ordinary hue . We have , in fact , reached the close of a period of disturbance , and have received a definite answer to questions which had arisen as to the reality of the change described by observers . Many astronomers ...
Pagina 121
... colour - changes in the equatorial zone of Jupiter . What , at first view , could appear more surprising than a change affecting the colour of a zone - shaped region whose surface is many times greater than the whole sur- face of our ...
... colour - changes in the equatorial zone of Jupiter . What , at first view , could appear more surprising than a change affecting the colour of a zone - shaped region whose surface is many times greater than the whole sur- face of our ...
Pagina 123
... colour may not be due to the actual constitution of the planet's vaporous atmosphere . In either case , be it noted , we should perceive in this ruddy light the inherent lustre of Jupiter's glowing mass ; only in one case we assume that ...
... colour may not be due to the actual constitution of the planet's vaporous atmosphere . In either case , be it noted , we should perceive in this ruddy light the inherent lustre of Jupiter's glowing mass ; only in one case we assume that ...
Pagina 142
... colour of the dark ring is a deep purple ; or rather , since , as we shall presently see , the ring is semi - transparent , and therefore a portion of its apparent colour is that which any theory as to the true seat of the colour it ...
... colour of the dark ring is a deep purple ; or rather , since , as we shall presently see , the ring is semi - transparent , and therefore a portion of its apparent colour is that which any theory as to the true seat of the colour it ...
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Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode ... Richard Anthony Proctor Vizualizare completă - 1876 |
Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode ... Richard Anthony Proctor Vizualizare completă - 1876 |
Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode ... Richard Anthony Proctor Vizualizare completă - 1875 |
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Pagina 264 - Our Place among Infinities : A Series of Essays contrasting our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around us.
Pagina 235 - Army of the North German Confederation. A Brief Description of its Organization, of the Different Branches of the Service and their rdle in War, of its Mode of Fighting, &c., &c.
Pagina 192 - Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, Even to make the poor of the land to fail, Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, Making the ephah small, and the shekel great, And falsifying the balances by deceit?
Pagina 190 - I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-oflerings and sacrifices: But this thing commanded I them, saying, obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you that it may be well with you.
Pagina 189 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Pagina 189 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand; This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: For I should have denied the God that is above.
Pagina 275 - VYNER (Lady Mary). Every day a Portion. Adapted from the Bible and the Prayer Book, for the Private Devotions of those living in Widowhood.
Pagina 243 - COLLINS (Rev. R.), MA Missionary Enterprise in the East. With special reference to the Syrian Christians of Malabar, and the results of modern Missions. With Four Illustrations. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 6s.
Pagina 256 - BASTIAN, MD, FRS The Brain as an Organ of Mind. Prof. AC RAMSAY, LL.D., FRS Earth Sculpture : Hills, Valleys, Mountains, Plains, Rivers, Lakes ; how they were Produced, and how they have been Destroyed.
Pagina 244 - PROVIDENCE HOUSE. By Mrs. GL Banks. FOR LACK OF GOLD. By Charles Gibbon. ABEL DRAKE'S WIFE. By John Saunders. CORY (Lieu tenant- Colonel Arthur).