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The geography of the heavens and classbook of astronomy; (1863)

Burritt, Elijah H. (Elijah Hinsdale), 1794-1838, Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868, Whitall, Henry, 1819-1887? Celestial planisphere. [from old catalog] · New York, Mason brothers; Boston, Mason & Hamlin; [etc., etc.] · leaf 174

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mayderive some faint conception of such a distance, by consideringthat the swiftest steamboats, which ply our waters at the rateof 200 miles a day, would not traverse it in thirteen hundredyears; and, that a cannon ball, flying night and day, at therate of 16 miles a minute, would not reach it in… … 328. His magnitude ? Diameter ? Compared with the Earth ? What illustration given?What reference to the Map ? 329. Distance of the Sun? WThat illustration given?830. How does the Sun appear through a telescope ? Describe these spots ? THE SUN HIS DISTANCE, MAGNITUDE, ETC. 17.3

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