Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles: And Made Easy to Those who Have Not Studied Mathematics : to which are Added, a Plain Method of Finding the Distances of All the Planets from the Sun, by the Transit of Venus Over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761 : an Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of the Transit of Venus in the Year 1639 : And, of the Distances of All the Planets from the Sun, as Deduced from Observations of the Transit in the Year 1761Matthew Carey, 1809 - 533 頁 |
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... third planet in order from the sun ; at the dis- tance of about 95 millions of miles ; furnished with one moon . Eclipse . When any secondary planet passes through the shadow of its primary , it is said to be eclipsed ; as the moon by ...
... third planet in order from the sun ; at the dis- tance of about 95 millions of miles ; furnished with one moon . Eclipse . When any secondary planet passes through the shadow of its primary , it is said to be eclipsed ; as the moon by ...
第 52 頁
... third quar- ter to her ; and vice versa . 57. But from one half of the Moon , the Earth is never seen at all . From the middle of the other half , it is always seen over head ; turning round al- most thirty times as quick as the Moon ...
... third quar- ter to her ; and vice versa . 57. But from one half of the Moon , the Earth is never seen at all . From the middle of the other half , it is always seen over head ; turning round al- most thirty times as quick as the Moon ...
第 58 頁
... third in 7 days 3 hours and 59 minutes , at the distance of 580 thousand miles : and the fourth , or outermost , in 16 days 18 hours and 30 minutes , at the distance of one million of miles from his centre . Jupi- Parallax mean bits ...
... third in 7 days 3 hours and 59 minutes , at the distance of 580 thousand miles : and the fourth , or outermost , in 16 days 18 hours and 30 minutes , at the distance of one million of miles from his centre . Jupi- Parallax mean bits ...
第 59 頁
... third , 9 ' 58 " ; and ter the fourth , 17 ' 30 " . And their distances from Ju- piter , measured by his semi - diameters , are thus : The first , 54 ; the second 9 , the third , 1423 ; and the fourth , 251 * . This planet , seen from ...
... third , 9 ' 58 " ; and ter the fourth , 17 ' 30 " . And their distances from Ju- piter , measured by his semi - diameters , are thus : The first , 54 ; the second 9 , the third , 1423 ; and the fourth , 251 * . This planet , seen from ...
第 61 頁
... third , in 4 days 12 hours 25 minutes ; at 263 thousand miles distance : the fourth , in 15 days 22 hours 41 minutes ; at the distance of 600 thousand miles : and the fifth , or outermost , at one million 800 thousand miles from ...
... third , in 4 days 12 hours 25 minutes ; at 263 thousand miles distance : the fourth , in 15 days 22 hours 41 minutes ; at the distance of 600 thousand miles : and the fifth , or outermost , at one million 800 thousand miles from ...
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angle appears April Aries ascending node beginning of egress body circle clock conjunction degrees diameter diurnal diurnal motion Dominical letter Earth's axis Earth's centre eclipse equal equator equinoctial equinox fixed stars full Moon globe goes round half heavens horizon horizontal parallax inclined Julian period July June Jupiter latitude Leap-Year London longitude lunar lunation March mean Anomaly mean distance Mercury meridian miles minutes Moon's orbit motion noon north pole observed opposite parallel path penumbra planets plate polar circles revolution right line rising round the Earth round the Sun satellites Saturn seconds seen semidiameter Sept shewn side signs solar south pole subtract Sun and Moon Sun's centre Sun's disc Sun's mean Sun's parallax suppose tides tion total ingress transit transit of Venus tropic tropic of Cancer tropic of Capricorn true turns round Venus Venus's visible
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第 60 頁 - ... wisely ordered by the Author of nature; for if the axis of this planet were inclined any considerable number of degrees, just so many degrees round each pole would in their turn be almost six of our years together in darkness. And as each degree of a great circle on Jupiter contains...
第 263 頁 - ... or entirely, intercepts our view of the sun ; the one is called a total, the other a partial, eclipse. Thus the solar eclipse is nothing more than the situation in which the earth is placed when the shadow of the moon falls upon it, and consequently, properly speaking, it is only an eclipse of that part of the earth where the moon's shadow falls. Hence we learn that the sun is not really darkened, but is only for a short space concealed from us by the intervention of another body, whilst he still...
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