The stars and constellations, how and when to find and tell them, Band 66

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Seite 2 - This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and inconvenience as possible. Innumerable snakes twine through long and contorted areas of the heavens, where no memory call follow them ; bears, lions, and fishes, large and small, northern and southern, confuse all nomenclature, &c.
Seite 3 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
Seite 11 - ... 1. All the brighter stars, at least, have a structure analogous to that of the sun. 2. The stars contain material elements common to the sun and earth. 3. The colours of the stars have their origin in the chemical constitution of the atmospheres which surround them. 4. The changes in brightness of some of the variable stars are attended with changes in the lines of absorption of their spectra. 5. The phenomena of the star in Corona appear to show that in this object, at least, great physical...
Seite 13 - Vyse, that of the nine pyramids still existing at Gizeh, six (including all the largest) have the narrow passages by which alone they can be entered, (all which open out on the northern faces of their respective pyramids,) inclined to the horizon downwards at angles as follows. 1st, or Pyramid of Cheops 26° 41...
Seite 9 - ... times the same unit — to traverse which, light, with its prodigious velocity, would occupy more than 120 years. If, then, the distances of the majority of stars visible to the naked eye are so enormously great, how are we to estimate our distance from those minute points of light discernible only in powerful telescopes ? The conclusion is forced upon us that we do not see them as they appeared within a few years, or even during the lifetime of man, but with the rays which proceeded from them...
Seite 20 - For their civil year has only 365 days, without any intercalary day; whence the quadrennium so adjusts itself, that in the 1461st year the revolution is completed. This year is by some called the Heliacal, by others the Eniautus, or The Year. But the year which Aristotle calls the greatest, rather than the great, is that in which the sun, moon and all the planets complete their courses, and return to the same sign from which they originally started together. The Winter of this year is the Cataclysm,...
Seite 13 - At the bottom of every one of these passages therefore, the then pole star must have been visible at its lower culmination, a circumstance which can hardly be supposed to have been unintentional, and was doubtless connected (perhaps superstitiously) with...
Seite 9 - Jirst magnitude from the earth is 986,000 radii of our annual orbit, a distance which light would require 15J years to traverse ; and, further, that the average distance of a star of the sixth magnitude (the smallest distinctly seen without a telescope) is 7,600,000 times the same unit, to traverse...
Seite 11 - By the precession of the equinoxes the aspect of the starry heavens from every point of the earth's surface is constantly changing. The earlier inhabitants of our high northern latitudes might see magnificent southern constellations rise to their view, which, now long unseen, will not reappear for thousands of years. In the time of Columbus, Canopus was already fully 1° 20' below the horizon at Toledo (lat.
Seite 13 - Bradley's discoveries of the aberration of light and the nutation of the earth's axis, the photographic measurement of the heavens, Schwabe's work on the sunspot period, and Mr.

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