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... observations and discoveries . ' EXAMINER . THE SUN ; RULER , LIGHT , FIRE , AND LIFE OF THE PLANETARY SYSTEM . With ... observation of its total eclipses . The illustrations of the red prominences which stand out beyond the black shadow ...
... observations and discoveries . ' EXAMINER . THE SUN ; RULER , LIGHT , FIRE , AND LIFE OF THE PLANETARY SYSTEM . With ... observation of its total eclipses . The illustrations of the red prominences which stand out beyond the black shadow ...
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... observations and discoveries . ' EXAMINER . ' This volume is a model of a popular treatise on Astronomy . Mr ... observation of its total eclipses . The illustrations of the red prominences which stand out beyond the black shadow during ...
... observations and discoveries . ' EXAMINER . ' This volume is a model of a popular treatise on Astronomy . Mr ... observation of its total eclipses . The illustrations of the red prominences which stand out beyond the black shadow during ...
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... observed facts , everyone who has heard the peculiar change in the tone of a railway whistle as the train sweeps past us ( first rapidly approaching and then as rapidly receding ) has had this fact sufficiently demonstrated to him . It ...
... observed facts , everyone who has heard the peculiar change in the tone of a railway whistle as the train sweeps past us ( first rapidly approaching and then as rapidly receding ) has had this fact sufficiently demonstrated to him . It ...
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... observed to melt away with the progress of the Martial day , exactly as the morning mists are dissi- pated by the heat of one of our summer days . The words applied by Brewster to long past ages of the earth's history will at once ...
... observed to melt away with the progress of the Martial day , exactly as the morning mists are dissi- pated by the heat of one of our summer days . The words applied by Brewster to long past ages of the earth's history will at once ...
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... observe satisfactorily ; and we must be prepared to look with extreme diffidence on all observations which deal with so difficult a matter as the determination of the planet's polar position . Modern observers of the highest repute ...
... observe satisfactorily ; and we must be prepared to look with extreme diffidence on all observations which deal with so difficult a matter as the determination of the planet's polar position . Modern observers of the highest repute ...
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