 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1814 - 420 pages
...a field with a blanket about me ; lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it, at arms' length, between my eye and the stars...stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another; and then having a candle by me, and laying the thread down on a paper,... | |
 | England - 1883 - 854 pages
...lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it at arm's length between my eyes and the stars, sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from my eyes, in order to take their apparent distances from each other ; and then laying the thread down on... | |
 | 1843 - 684 pages
...a blanket about me, lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it, at arm's length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the...stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another; and then laying the thread down upon a paper, I marked the stars thereon... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Boys - 1822 - 520 pages
...blanket over me, lay down on my back, and stretched a small thread, with small beads upon it, at arm's length, between my eye and the stars, sliding the...stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another : and then laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Children - 1822 - 264 pages
...blanket over me, lay down on my back, and stretched a small thread, with small beads upon it, at arm's length, between my eye and the stars, sliding the...such and such stars from my eye, in order to take the apparent distances from one another ; and then laying the thread down on a paper, 1 marked the... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 312 pages
...a blanket about me ; lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it, at arm's length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the...stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another; and then, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon... | |
 | First steps - Astronomy - 1828 - 456 pages
...field with a blanket about me ; lay down on my back, and stretched a thread vvitli small beads upon it, at arms length, between my eye and the stars ;...stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another ; and then laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon... | |
 | William Rogerson - 1828 - 482 pages
...blanket \ about me, lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it, Í at arm's length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the...stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances | from one another ; and then laying the thread down upon a paper, I marked the f stars thereon... | |
 | George Whitefield - 1830 - 314 pages
...a blanket about me; lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it, at arm's length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the...stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another ; and then, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...heavenly bodies. " I used to stretch," says he, " a thread with small beads on it, at arms-length, between my eye and the stars; sliding the beads upon...stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another ; and then laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon... | |
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... length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another; and then, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by... 
