School Atlas of Astronomy: Comprising, in Twenty-one Plates, a Complete Series of Illustrations of the Heavenly BodiesWilliam Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 70 strani |
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Stran 2
... southern hemisphere an analo- gous point in the heavens is visible round which the stars perpetually revolve above the horizon . This is the other extremity of the axis of the sphere . A few of the luminaries of the stellar sphere are ...
... southern hemisphere an analo- gous point in the heavens is visible round which the stars perpetually revolve above the horizon . This is the other extremity of the axis of the sphere . A few of the luminaries of the stellar sphere are ...
Stran 4
... hemisphere is termed the north pole ; the other is termed the south pole , and is ele- vated above the horizon of any place in the southern hemisphere . It is obvious that when the north pole is elevated above the horizon , the south ...
... hemisphere is termed the north pole ; the other is termed the south pole , and is ele- vated above the horizon of any place in the southern hemisphere . It is obvious that when the north pole is elevated above the horizon , the south ...
Stran 11
... hemisphere , while the day becomes correspondingly shorter and the night longer everywhere in the southern hemisphere . On the 21st of June the sun's northern declination has attained its maximum value of 23 ° 27 ' . The day is now ...
... hemisphere , while the day becomes correspondingly shorter and the night longer everywhere in the southern hemisphere . On the 21st of June the sun's northern declination has attained its maximum value of 23 ° 27 ' . The day is now ...
Stran 14
... the south pole is similarly turned away from it . The result is , that everywhere in the northern hemisphere the day is longer than the night , while in the southern hemisphere the night is longer than the day . This process continues ...
... the south pole is similarly turned away from it . The result is , that everywhere in the northern hemisphere the day is longer than the night , while in the southern hemisphere the night is longer than the day . This process continues ...
Stran 24
... southern hemisphere , in accordance with the method which has just been explained . From observations of the planet made at Greenwich and Williamstown , Victoria , in the year 1862 , Mr Stone , First Assistant at the Royal Observatory ...
... southern hemisphere , in accordance with the method which has just been explained . From observations of the planet made at Greenwich and Williamstown , Victoria , in the year 1862 , Mr Stone , First Assistant at the Royal Observatory ...
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amounts angle angular apparent diameter apparent paths apparent position apparition appear astronomers Atlas atmosphere axis body brightness celestial object celestial sphere centre circle circumstance comet constellation dark lines direction discovered discovery diurnal motion double star earth's orbit earth's surface ecliptic Edinburgh & London Engraved & Printed equator excentricity exhibits greatest heavens Herschel horizon inches inferior conjunction inferior planets instance Jupiter KEITH JOHNSTON light longitude magnitude Maps Mars mean distance mean solar Mercury meridian meteors millions of miles minor planets moon moon's motion movements naked eye nebula Neptune night node observations opposite passing perihelion phenomena planet revolves Printed in Colours rays refraction remarkable represented result revolving round right ascension ring round the sun satellites Saturn seen shadow shooting stars sidereal solar parallax solar spectrum south pole southern hemisphere spots sun's disc superior planets suppose synodic revolution telescope termed total eclipse Uranus velocity Venus visible William Blackwood
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Stran 17 - The squares of the periods of revolution of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Stran 70 - Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland ; and JAMES NICOL, FRSE, FGS, Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen. Constructed by ALEX. KEITH JOHNSTON, FRSE, &c., Geographer to the Queen, Author of the "Physical Atlas,