Dent's Historical & Economic Geographies: World studies.-book II. Europe.-book III. Asia.-book IV. The Americas.-book V. Africa & Australia.-book VI.-The British Isles & the British empireJ.M. dent & sons, 1912 - Geography |
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Page 17 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state.
Page 17 - Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts.
Page 5 - 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 bears the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
Page 15 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Page 11 - The square of the period of a planet is proportional to the cube of its mean distance from the Sun.
Page 114 - ... occasioned by the jets in constant play ; at the start of each the white light of the depths breaking through to the surface. A row of small basins on the south-east side of the lake were also jetting out their glowing lavas. The two smaller lakes tossed up their molten rock much like the larger, and occasionally there were sudden bursts to a height of forty or fifty feet. The broad canopy of clouds above the pit, and the amphitheatre of rocks around the lower depths, were brightly illumined...
Page 114 - ... from below. When on the verge of the lower pit, a half-smothered, gurgling sound was all that could be heard. Occasionally a report like musketry came from the depths ; then all was still again, except the stifled mutterings of the boiling lakes.
Page 205 - ... whereof one is ever glowing with the bright sun, and scorched forever by his fire; round which the two farthest ones to the right and left are extended, stiff with cerulean ice and horrid showers. Between these and the middle zones, two by the bounty of the gods are given to weak mortals; and a path is cut through both, where the series of the signs might revolve obliquely.
Page 9 - Some centuries ago, great theological disgust was produced by the announcement that the sun and not the earth was the centre of the planetary system.
Page 41 - ... is due to the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the Ecliptic, and the consequent tilting of each hemisphere towards the sun during its summer.