American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 12Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1838 |
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... known planet of our solar system , in the various characters of fixed star , comet , and planet , which at different periods of time have been assigned to it , is no less remarkable than are some of the phenomena which , despite of its ...
... known planet of our solar system , in the various characters of fixed star , comet , and planet , which at different periods of time have been assigned to it , is no less remarkable than are some of the phenomena which , despite of its ...
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... known to revolve in proper orbits around each other ; but still they are termed fixed , be- cause to the unassisted eye , they suffer no change of position with regard one to another . It was to this class of heavenly bodies that Uranus ...
... known to revolve in proper orbits around each other ; but still they are termed fixed , be- cause to the unassisted eye , they suffer no change of position with regard one to another . It was to this class of heavenly bodies that Uranus ...
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... known limits of the solar system an augmentation of dimen- sions almost beyond conception . It has often been averred - and it is necessary here to repeat the correction , because the errors in question are still found in the newest ...
... known limits of the solar system an augmentation of dimen- sions almost beyond conception . It has often been averred - and it is necessary here to repeat the correction , because the errors in question are still found in the newest ...
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... known offer some peculiarities forming excep- tions to rules that have been observed by nature in all other parts of the celestial mechanism with which we have become acquainted . It was not until 1787 that Uranus was known to be ...
... known offer some peculiarities forming excep- tions to rules that have been observed by nature in all other parts of the celestial mechanism with which we have become acquainted . It was not until 1787 that Uranus was known to be ...
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... known to have been so defective , that the images of the celestial bodies which it produced were distorted , and although very high magnifying powers were tried upon it , yet the Rev. W. Pearson , a member of the Royal Society , does ...
... known to have been so defective , that the images of the celestial bodies which it produced were distorted , and although very high magnifying powers were tried upon it , yet the Rev. W. Pearson , a member of the Royal Society , does ...
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