 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 556 pages
...a field with a blanket about me, lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads unon 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 a thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon... | |
 | 1839 - 580 pages
...most interesting — "I used," says he, " to stretch a thread with small beads on it, at arms-length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the beads upon it, till they hid euch and such stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another ; and then... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1840 - 492 pages
...back, pursued for long hours his observations on the heavenly bodies. " I used to stretch," says he, " a thread, with small beads on it, at arms' length,...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... | |
 | Self-culture - 1840 - 298 pages
...back, pursued for long hours his observations on the heavenly bodies. " I used to stretch," says he, " a thread, with small beads on it, at arms' length...stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent VOL. I.— G distances from one another; and then laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Conduct of life - 1840 - 224 pages
...and with a lighted candle, " I used," says he, " to stretch a thread with small beads on 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 stara thereon... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1831 - 446 pages
...heavenly bodies. " 1 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, 1 marked the stars thereon... | |
 | 1843 - 350 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 - Self-culture - 1845 - 778 pages
...observations on the heavenly bodies. " I used to stretch," says he, "a thread with small beads on it, alarm's length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the...they hid such and such stars from my eye, in order totake their apparent distances from one another ; and then laying the thread down on a paper, I marked... | |
 | Mary E. Bennett - Adventure and adventurers - 1848 - 212 pages
...to stretch a thread with small beads on it, at arm's length, between my eye and the stars ; shaking 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... | |
 | Success - Conduct of life - 1851 - 362 pages
...with 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 beads upon it till they hid sueh and such stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another, and then,... | |
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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... 
