An Introduction to the True Astronomy: Or, Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford. By John Keill, ...Samuel Richardson, 1739 - 396 páginas |
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... Earth , and fup- pofed that the Heavens were viewed from thence , as from the Center of a cryftal Globe . An Aftro- nomer thinks it no great Conceffion or Poftulatum , that he can draw a Line from the Sun to the Cen- ter of the Earth ...
... Earth , and fup- pofed that the Heavens were viewed from thence , as from the Center of a cryftal Globe . An Aftro- nomer thinks it no great Conceffion or Poftulatum , that he can draw a Line from the Sun to the Cen- ter of the Earth ...
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... Earth . For their Distance either The immenfe from the Earth or Sun is fo great , that the little Diftance of Change of Place , ( however great it be , when com- the fixed pared to our common Measures ) which is made by Stars from ...
... Earth . For their Distance either The immenfe from the Earth or Sun is fo great , that the little Diftance of Change of Place , ( however great it be , when com- the fixed pared to our common Measures ) which is made by Stars from ...
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... Earth , the Place of our Abode . And even tho ' we should suppose the Earth to be at Rest , and that the Sun did real- ly move round it in the Space of a Year , yet a Spectator in the Sun would obferve , that the Earth turned round ...
... Earth , the Place of our Abode . And even tho ' we should suppose the Earth to be at Rest , and that the Sun did real- ly move round it in the Space of a Year , yet a Spectator in the Sun would obferve , that the Earth turned round ...
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... Earth indeed has The Earth only the Moon to keep her Company , who never is accompa- forfakes her in her annual Course round the Sun , nied by the and while fhe attends upon us , fhe performs pro- per Circulations of her own round the Earth ...
... Earth indeed has The Earth only the Moon to keep her Company , who never is accompa- forfakes her in her annual Course round the Sun , nied by the and while fhe attends upon us , fhe performs pro- per Circulations of her own round the Earth ...
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... Earth ; and therefore , at that Time , fhe must be above the Sun ; for in no other Pofi- tion , could her illuminated Face be towards the Earth , when fhe is feen in Conjunction with the Sun. In the Figure , let S represent the Sun , T ...
... Earth ; and therefore , at that Time , fhe must be above the Sun ; for in no other Pofi- tion , could her illuminated Face be towards the Earth , when fhe is feen in Conjunction with the Sun. In the Figure , let S represent the Sun , T ...
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Æquator Aftronomers alfo Altitude Angle Aphelion appear Arch Axis becauſe Body called Center Circle Circle of Latitude Co-fine Comet conftantly Conjunction Courſe defcribe Degrees Diameter Difference diftant Disk Diſtance diurnal Motion Eaft Earth Eccentrick Eclipfe Ecliptick equal Equator Equinoctial fame feem feen fhall fhew fhining fhould fince firft firſt fixed Stars fmall fome fometimes ftance ftill fubftracted fuch fuppofe greateſt Heavens Horizon Hours increaſe inferior Planets Interfection itſelf Jupiter Latitude Lect Lecture lefs likewife Longitude Mars mean Anomaly Meaſure Meridian Minutes Moon Moon's moſt move muft muſt Nodes Number obferved oppofite Orbit paffing Parallax parallel Penumbra Perihelion perpendicular Place Planet Plate Pofition Point Pole Proportion Quadrant Radius reft reprefent rifes right Afcenfion right Line round the Sun Saturn ſeen Semidiameter Shadow ſhall Sine ſmall Spectator Sun's Teleſcope thefe thence theſe thofe thro tion Triangle true true Anomaly Velocity Venus Vertex vifible Weft whofe
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Página 51 - The common names, or meaning of these words, in the same order, are, the Ram, the Bull, the Twins, the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Goat, the Waterer, and the Fishes. Fig. 183. The 12 signs of the zodiac, together with the sun, and the earth revolving around him, are represented at fig.
Página viii - Lord ; for he spake the word, and they were made ; he commanded, and they were created. He hath made them fast for ever and ever ; he hath given them a law which shall not be broken.
Página 220 - When applied to the setting of a star it denotes the entering or iminerging into the sun's rays, and thus becoming lost in the lustre of his beams. A star rises heliacally when, after it has been in conjunction with the sun, and on that...
Página 103 - ... parts appear as it were toothed and cut with innumerable notches and breaks ; and even in the dark part, near the borders of the lucid surface, there are seen some small spaces enlightened by the sun's beams.
Página 368 - ... Sunday of January, in a common year, will show all the Sundays throughout the year, and to whatever days in the rest of the months, that letter is put, these days are all Sundays. If the first day of January be on a Sunday, the next year will begin on Monday, and the Sunday will fall on the seventh day, to which is annexed the letter G, which therefore will be the Sunday letter for that year; the next year beginning on Tuesday, the first Sunday will fall on the sixth of January, to which is adjoined...
Página 104 - Afterwards many more shining spaces are observed to arise by degrees, and to appear within the dark side of the moon, which before they drew near to the confines of light and darkness were invisible, being without any light, and totally immersed in the shadow. The contrary is observed in the decreasing...
Página xiv - Keil observed, our author, with indefatigable pains, for more than forty years, watched the motions of the stars, and has given us innumerable observations of the sun, moon, and planets, which he made with very large instruments...
Página 75 - The true cause of the variation of the seasons consists in the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of its orbit; or, in other words, to the ecliptic.
Página 97 - ... nineteen years ; after which time either of the nodes, having receded from any point of the ecliptic, returns to the same again ; and when the moon is in the node, she is also seen in the ecliptic. If the line of nodes were immoveable, that is, if it had no other motion than that whereby it is carried round the sun, it would always look to the same point of the ecliptic, or would keep parallel...
Página 126 - ... is supposed to be divided into twelve equal parts, called digits : in a total eclipse of the luminaries, the whole disc is obscured ; in a partial eclipse, only a part thereof. If we imagine a plane to pass through the centre of the earth, so that the line which joins the centres of the sun and earth, may be perpendicular to this plane, it will make on the surface of the earth a circle, which will separate the illuminated hemisphere of the earth from the dark. This circle, otherwise termed the...