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12 full-page illustrations Algol appear astronomers Autumn axis BLACK blue bright stars brilliant called canals Cassiopeia CHAPTER circle round cloth cluster comet compared constellations Containing 12 full-page course dark body discovered distance double stars earth eclipse fact fall G. E. MITTON go round gravitation Greyhouse Halley's comet heat heavens Hemisphere hundred illustrations in colour imagine infinite Jupiter Large crown 8vo larger less light LONDON look Mars marvellous Mercury meteors mighty millions of miles moon movement moving nearer nearest nebula Neptune never night objects observed once orbit PEEPS planetary planets Pleiades Pole Star pull rays revolving rings rotation round the sun Saturn seems seen shadow shining side Sirius smaller SOHO SQUARE solar system sometimes space spectrum sun's supposed surface tail telescope thing thousand tiny turned Uranus variable star Venus Waverley Novels wonderful
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Page 157 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
Page 200 - Goths in the fifth century and of the Arabs in the eighth century, but still retains distinctive Latin characteristics. There are so many words in common use, in the Portuguese, like the Latin, that it does not require a great stretch of the imagination to fancy that the people one sees and hears in Brazil are descendants of an ancient Latin race, and speak a language that could almost have been understood by the every-day people in the time and country of Horace. The similarity of the architecture...
Page 216 - Each containing 32 full-page illustrations in colour. The World The British Empire The Gorgeous East (India, Burma, Ceylon, and Siam) The Far East (China, Japan, and Korea) Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, and South Seas) Large crown 8vo. , cloth. The Open Book of Nature : A Book of Nature Study for Young People. 16 full-page illustrations in colour and 114 reproductions from photographs, etc. The Alps. 24 full-page illustrations from photographs The Holy Land.
Page 118 - ... all who are conversant with such matters. Now that is 25,600. Only imagine a glare 25,600 times fiercer than that of an equatorial sunshine at noonday with the sun vertical. And again, only conceive a light 25,600 times more glaring than the glare of such a noonday! In such a heat there is no solid substance we know of which would not run like water — boil — and be converted into smoke or vapour.