 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1848 - 380 pages
...cycle of about nineteen years, it had circulated in the same direction entirely round the ecliptic. Long and patiently did the astronomer watch and wait,...unless the new moon is in the act of crossing the sail's track. Here was a grand discovery. — He holds the key which he believes will unlock the dread... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1848 - 302 pages
...records, he collates and compares the phenomena, until finally the grand fact bursts upon his mind that no eclipse of the sun ever occurs unless the new moon is on the ecliptic, while no eclipse of the moon is recorded, except the full moon at the same time is... | |
 | 1850 - 780 pages
...cycle of about nineteen years, it had circulated in the same direction entirely around the ecliptic. Long and patiently did the astronomer watch and wait,...unless the new moon is in the act of crossing the sim's track. Here was a grand discovery. — He holds the key which he believes will unlock the dread... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 366 pages
...circle of about nineteen years, it had circulated in the same direction entirely round the ecliptic. Long and patiently did the astronomer watch and wait...unless the new moon is in the act of crossing the sun's track. Here was a grand discovery. He holds the key which he believes will unlock the dread mystery,... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 374 pages
...circle of about nineteen years, it had circulated in the same direction entirely round the ecliptic. Long and patiently did the astronomer watch and wait...unless the new moon is in the act of crossing the sun's track. Here was a grand discovery. He holds the key which he believes will unlock the dread mystery,... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1852 - 312 pages
...cycle of about nineteen years, it had circulated in the same direction entirely round the ecliptic. Long and patiently did the astronomer watch and wait,...unless the new moon is in the act of crossing the sun's track. Here was a grand discovery. — He holds the key which he believes will unlock the dread mystery,... | |
 | 1852 - 844 pages
...cycle of about nineteen years, it had circulated m the same direction entirely around the ecliptic. Long and patiently did the astronomer watch and wait...darkness begins to give way, and a ray of light breaks upon his mind. He finds that no eclipse of the sun ever occurs, unless the new moon is in the act of... | |
 | 1852 - 452 pages
...cycle of about nineteen years, it had circulated in the same direction entirely around the ecliptic. Long and patiently did the astronomer watch and wait...darkness begins to give way, and a ray of light breaks upon his mind. He finds that no eclipse of the sun ever occurs, unless the new moon is in the act of... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 pages
...circle of about nineteen years it had circulated in the same direction entirely round the ecliptic.11 5. Long and patiently did the astronomer watch and wait...unless the new moon is in the act of crossing the sun's track. Here was a grand discovery." He holds the key which he believes will unlock the dread mystery,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 pages
...circle of about nineteen years it had circulated in the same direction entirely round the ecliptic." 5. Long and patiently did the astronomer watch and wait;...attendant circumstances are recorded ; when at last the darkne.is begins to give way, and a ray of light breaks in upon his mind. He finds that no eclipse... | |
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Long and patiently did the astronomer watch and wait ; each eclipse is duly observed, and its attendant circumstances are recorded ; when at last the darkness begins to give way, and a ray of light breaks in upon his mind. He finds that no eclipse of... 
