Celestial scenery, or, The Wonders of the planetary system displayed : illustrating the perfections of deity and a plurality of worlds (1845)
Dick, Thomas, 1774-1857, Parker, E. S., former owner. DSI, David H. DeVorkin Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI · Philadelphia : Published by Edward C. Biddle · leaf 95
e vertical of about twenty degrees towards the south, as inFig. XXII., No. 3, where Z N represents the vertical, andE C a parallel to the ecliptic, making then an angle with thevertical of forty-five degrees. The numbers 3, 4, 7, 11 markthe situations of the satellite on the respective days.… … South. mis about one minute more than before, and making an anglewith the vertical of ten degrees below, but on the north side ;so that the satellite seemed to have described an arc of aboutthirty degrees, whereof Venus was the centre, and the radiustwenty minutes. The two following nights being…
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