The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy, or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or norhtern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c (1837)
Bradford, Duncan. [from old catalog] · Boston, American stationers company · leaf 190
tivated fields. That changes occasionally happen on the lunarhemisphere next the earth, appears from theobservations of Herschel and Schroeter, particu-larly from those of the latter. In the Transactionsof the Society of Natural Philosophy, at Berlin,Schroeter relates that on the 30th December,… … <^^ ^r? WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS 145 the south-west declivity of the volcanic mountainin the Mare Crisium, having a shadow of at least2. 5. On the 11th January, at twenty minutespast five, on looking at this place again, he couldsee neither the new crater nor its shadow. Again,on the 4th January,…
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