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22 noon appear Astronomy Australia autumn BALFOUR STEWART bodies Boötes called centre comets constellations cubic inch dark half dark side day and night density diagram diameter direction disc distance earth spins east edge equator exactly further go round Greenwich horizon inclined Jupiter knitting-needle light longer March 22 Mercury midnight millions of miles moon motion round Move the orange moves round nearer nearly noon at London north pole northern observer once orange round orbit pass pin's head planet point of Aries Pole Star position represent the earth represent the sun revolves round rising and setting rotation round the earth round the lamp round the sun Saturn school globe seen shadow ships Solstice south pole southern hemisphere summer sun and stars sun's suppose surface telescope travel round turn the globe turn the orange turns round upright Uranus Venus visible winter
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Page 89 - The Ram, the Bull, the Heavenly Twins And next the Crab, the Lion shines, the Virgin and the Scales, The Scorpion, Archer and Sea-Goat, the Man that holds the Watering Pot, And Fish with Glittering Tails.
Page 60 - Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit ; Venus a pea, on a circle of 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet ; the Asteroids, grains of sand, in orbits of from 1000 to 1200 feet; Jupiter a moderate-sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across...
Page 52 - Fancy a world without water, and therefore without ice, cloud, rain, snow ; without rivers or streams, and therefore without vegetation to support animal life ; — a world without twilight or any gradations between the fiercest sunshine and the blackest night ; a world also without sound, for as sound is carried by the air, the highest mountain on the airless moon might be riven by an earthquake inaudibly.
Page 60 - Pallas, grains of sand, in orbits of from 1000 to 1200 feet; Jupiter a moderate-sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile; Uranus a full-sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half, and Neptune a good-sized plum on a circle about two miles and a half in diameter.
Page ii - PHYSICS. LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY PHYSICS. By "BALFOUR STEWART, FRS, Professor of Natural Philosophy in Owens College, Manchester. With numerous Illustrations and Chromoliths of the Spectra of the Sun, Stars, and Nebulae.
Page 90 - Hydra The Cup The Crow The Centaur The Wolf The Altar The Southern Crown The Southern Fish Cuntellatnm.
Page 46 - ... position that the sun, the moon, and the earth are nearly in a straight line, and that the shadow of the one can fall upon the other. The shadow of the moon falling upon any part of the earth produces an eclipse of the sun, and the shadow of the earth falling upon the moon causes an eclipse of the moon. An eclipse of the moon can only take place at full moon, when the earth is between the sun and the moon ; and an eclipse of the sun can only happen at new moon, when the moon comes between the...
Page 49 - Moon, the inclination of the Moon's orbit, to the plane of the ecliptic, the...
Page 41 - On the other hand, when the moon is on the opposite side of the earth to the sun, that is, when it comes on the meridian at midnight, then the whole of the illuminated side is turned towards the earth, and A2 we have full moon.
Page ii - EDUCATIONAL TIMES. PRIMER OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. By A. GEIKIE, LL.D., FRS, Murchison-Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Edinburgh. With numerous Illustrations. l8mo.