An Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of Astronomy: With Plates Illustrating, Chiefly, the Ancient SystemsBaldwin and Cradock, 1833 - 520 Seiten |
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... equal to 13,900 years : to them succeeded the races of demi - gods and Manes , who respectively governed the country during 5,212 and 5,813 years , when Ægyptus established a new dynasty ; so that the whole number of years elapsed ...
... equal to 13,900 years : to them succeeded the races of demi - gods and Manes , who respectively governed the country during 5,212 and 5,813 years , when Ægyptus established a new dynasty ; so that the whole number of years elapsed ...
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... equal to half a day , and those of the second and third ages to one - eighth of a day , by which the real duration of the three ages is made equal to 3103 solar years ; and , as these ter- minate in the year 3102 before Christ , it ...
... equal to half a day , and those of the second and third ages to one - eighth of a day , by which the real duration of the three ages is made equal to 3103 solar years ; and , as these ter- minate in the year 3102 before Christ , it ...
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... equal to a pygon , or cubit " . Now this distance , as is observed by Delambre , is known to be equal to 3 ° 20 ′ ; therefore what was called a cubit in the heavens may be considered as equivalent to that quantity . This mode of de ...
... equal to a pygon , or cubit " . Now this distance , as is observed by Delambre , is known to be equal to 3 ° 20 ′ ; therefore what was called a cubit in the heavens may be considered as equivalent to that quantity . This mode of de ...
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... equal to ten stadia . It is further stated , but we know not on what ground , that the Egyptians considered the ... equal parts , in order to as- sign the places of those bodies , at any given time , with more precision than could be ...
... equal to ten stadia . It is further stated , but we know not on what ground , that the Egyptians considered the ... equal parts , in order to as- sign the places of those bodies , at any given time , with more precision than could be ...
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... equal di- vision of the zodiac has been proposed , and it is conceivable that it may have been put in practice by an ingenious people in the infancy of science . About an hour after sun - set , on any day , let a star be observed in the ...
... equal di- vision of the zodiac has been proposed , and it is conceivable that it may have been put in practice by an ingenious people in the infancy of science . About an hour after sun - set , on any day , let a star be observed in the ...
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Seite 500 - A prodigious number of physical phenomena are perceived to follow as necessary consequences from Newton's grand law, that bodies tend toward each other with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the mass of the bodies. But we should reach a higher unity and obtain a deeper insight into nature did we know not merely the empirical fact that bodies do so, but the cause why they do so. It is this which incites in the rational physicist the desire to find out the cause...
Seite 30 - Who knows exactly, and who shall in this world declare, whence and why this creation took place ? The gods are subsequent to the production of this world: then who can know whence it proceeded ? or whence this varied world arose ? or whether it uphold [itself], or not ? He who, in the highest heaven, is the ruler of this universe, does indeed know; but not another can possess that knowledge.
Seite 512 - ¡mother, and so contrary to the ideas which had been formed respecting the figure of the terrestrial globe, would seem to indicate great irregularity ; and as there can be little doubt of the accuracy of...
Seite 102 - A solar day is the interval between two successive returns of the sun to the same meridian. The sun moves through 360 degrees of longitude in one tropical year, or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 47 sec« onds. Hence the sun's mean daily motion in longitude is found by the proportion One year : one" day : : 360° : 59
Seite 100 - ... so far as we know, be independent of every other ; for it is only in virtue of each being supposed to be an ultimate property or to point to an ultimate property that it has any claim to be taken into the account. Thus, if any two of the properties are found to be joint effects of the same cause or to stand to each other in the relation of cause and effect, they furnish only one argument instead of two.
Seite 93 - Die iam illustri signum e tabernaculo regis bucina dabatur. Super tabernaculum, unde ab omnibus conspici posset, imago solis crystallo inclusa fulgebat.
Seite 20 - Heliadse, or children of the sun (that is, men from the East), excelled all other men in knowledge, particularly in the knowledge of the stars. One of this race, named Actis (a ray), built Heliopolis, and named it after his father, the sun. Thenceforward the Egyptians cultivated astrology with so much assiduity as to be considered its inventors. On the other hand Tatius says that the Egyptians taught the Chaldaeans astrology.
Seite 405 - The knowledge which man had acquired of the visible heavens received many important accessions from the discoveries which Galileo was enabled to make by means of the telescope. Except the sun and moon, not one of the celestial bodies had hitherto been observed to have any visible form or magnitude, and it was to the eye of reason alone that those appeared to be anything but plane surfaces : the fixed stars and the...
Seite 406 - ... of form ; while the fixed stars appeared unchanged, or only divested of the radiance with which they seem to be surrounded when seen by the naked eye ; and hence it became obvious that the former must constitute a distinct group of bodies infinitely nearer the earth than the others. The sun, from the spots observed on his surface, was found to revolve on its axis, and consequently was ascertained to be globular; and the light and dark spaces on the moon were distinctly perceived to be mountains...
Seite 64 - ... varias ipsa lucis mutationes habet ; atque etiam tum subiecta atque opposita soli radios eius et lumen obscurat, tum ipsa incidens in umbram terrae, cum est e regione solis, interpositu interiectuque terrae repente deficit.