 ... 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...  Frank: A Sequel to Frank in Early Lessons - Page 7by Maria Edgeworth - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Humanities - 1911 - 400 pages
...my work was over I went into the field 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 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...such and such stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distance from one another, and then, laying the thread down on the paper, I marked the... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Success - 1897 - 392 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 each other; and then laying the thread down on... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - Astronomy - 1911 - 394 pages
...my work was over, I went into a field with a blanket about me, lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it at arm's length between...hid such and such stars from my eye in order to take their apparent distance from one another, and then, laying the thread upon a paper, I marked the stars... | |
 | John Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson - Genealogy - 1889 - 248 pages
...my work was over, I went into a field with a blanket about me ; lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it at arm's length, between...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... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1847 - 534 pages
...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...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... | |
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