 | William Chambers - Biography - 1873 - 326 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - Biography - 1874 - 370 pages
...and, lying on his back, stretch a thread, with small beads upon it, at arms' length, between his eyo and the stars, sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from him, in order to take their apparent distances from each other : then laying the thread upon paper,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1876 - 314 pages
...eye •the celestial bodies. "I used to stretch," he says, "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 on a paper, I marked the stars thereon... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1879 - 430 pages
...distances of the heavenly bodies. "I used," he said, " to stretch a thread with small beads on 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, I marked the... | |
 | James Frederick Skinner Gordon - Banffshire (Scotland) - 1880 - 488 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, laying the Thread down on a Paper, I marked the Stars thereon... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1881 - 648 pages
...heavenly bodies. ' I used to stretch,' says he, ' a thread with small beads on it, at arm'slength, 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... | |
 | George Dawson - Sermons, English - 1882 - 392 pages
...you are * James Ferguson. " I used to stretch," says he, " 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 on a paper, I marked the stars thereon... | |
 | England - 1883 - 830 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 eаch other ; and then laying the thread down... | |
 | Humanities - 1911 - 400 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 beads upon it until they hid such and such stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distance from one another... | |
 | Artists - 1896 - 300 pages
...watching the stars. "I used," he writes, "to stretch a thread with small beads on it at arm's-length between my eye and the stars, sliding the beads upon...from one another, and then, laying the thread down on the paper, I marked the stars, thereon by the beads." The clergyman of the parish happened to see one... | |
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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... 
