 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1834 - 450 pages
...observations on the heavenly bodies. " I used to stretch," says he, " a thread with small beads on it, at arms length, between my eye and the stars ;...their apparent distances from one another ; and then laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads." " My master," he adds,... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Biography - 1832 - 336 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...their apparent distances from one another ; and then laying a thread down on the paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads. My master at first laughed... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1832 - 510 pages
...with small beads on it, at arms length, between my eye and the stars ; VOL. III.— April, 1832. 15 sliding the beads upon it, till they hid such and...their apparent distances from one another ; and then laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads." " My master," he adds,... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...the 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...their apparent distances from one another; and then laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads." " My master," he adds,... | |
 | 1837 - 684 pages
...observe the heavenly bodies. " I used," he says, " to stretch a thread with small beads on, at arm's length between my eye and the stars, sliding the beads...their apparent distances from one another ; and then, laying the thread down on the paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads." — Nor is this the... | |
 | 1835 - 444 pages
...farmer in the neighbourhood, whose name was James Glashan. I found him very kind and indulgent; and he soon observed that when my work was over, I went...their apparent distances from one another; and then laying the thread down on paper, I marked the stars thereon, by the beads, according to their respective... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - Biography - 1836 - 348 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...their apparent distances from one another ; and then, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 646 pages
...his astronomical studies. ' I used,' lie says, ' to stretch a thread with small beads on it at arm's length between my eye and the stars, sliding the beads...their apparent distances from one another; and then laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads.' ' My master,' he adds,... | |
 | 1838 - 518 pages
...he says, ' to stretch a thread with small beads on it at arm's length between my eye and the slaw, sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such...their apparent distances from one another ; and then laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads.' ' My master," he adds,... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 554 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...their apparent distances from one another ; and then, laying a thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective... | |
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Beads upon it, at arms' 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... 
