The Story of the Stars: Simply Told for General ReadersD. Appleton, 1895 - 160 Seiten |
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Aldebaran Algol Andromeda appears Aquila Arcturus Argûs astronomers Auriga Australis binary stars Boötes bright lines bright star brighter brightest star brilliancy called Canis Majoris Capella catalogue celestial objects centre century Ceti chapter circle cluster colours comets considered constellation Crucis Cygni displacement distance double stars fact Geminorum Grus constellation heavens Herculis horizon Huggins Hyades hydrogen idea latitude Libra constellation Libræ light line of sight Lyra Lyræ magnitude stars mass meridian Milky naked eye names nebula night Northern Nova number of stars observations Observatory Ophiuchus orbit Orionis pair passing perhaps period Persei planets Pleiades Pole Star Pollux Præsepe proper motion recognised regarded Regulus remarkable right ascension Scorpii Secchi seems seen Sir John Herschel Sirius small telescopes Sobieskii solar South spectra spectroscope spectrum Spica star's stellar Taurus temporary stars tion trapezium Ursa Major variable stars Virginis whilst words zodiac
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Seite 35 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Seite 91 - The Pleiads, Hyads, with the northern team; And great Orion's more refulgent beam; To which, around the axle of the sky, The Bear, revolving, points his golden eye, Still shines exalted on th' ethereal plain, Nor bathes his blazing forehead in the main.
Seite 32 - Canst thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or canst thou guide the Bear with her train?
Seite 117 - To God's eternal house direct the way; A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly, as a circling zone, thou seest Powder'd with stars.
Seite 87 - Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Seite 86 - Devotion ! daughter of astronomy ! An undevout astronomer is mad. True ; All things speak a GOD ; but in the small, Men trace out Him ,• in great, He seizes man ; Seizes, and elevates, and wraps, and fills With new inquiries, 'mid associates new.
Seite 85 - Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love.
Seite 122 - ... through space, form a stratum, of which the thickness is small, in comparison with its length and breadth; and in which the earth occupies a place somewhere about the middle of its thickness, and near the point where it subdivides into two principal lamina?, inclined at a small angle to each other.
Seite 87 - The lightning is his slave; heaven's utmost deep Gives up her stars, and like a flock of sheep They pass before his eye, are numbered, and roll on! The tempest is his steed, he strides the air; And the abyss shouts from her depth laid bare, Heaven, hast thou secrets? Man unveils me; I have none.
Seite 86 - How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant (says the sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world, Though nothing half so rapid as their flight.