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 194
le, and coelumempyrium, or heaven of heavens; all of whichwere imagined to move round the earth once intwenty-four hours, as also in certain other statedor periodical times, agreeably to their annualchanges and appearances. And to account fortheir different motions, Ptolemy was obliged toimagine a… … centre, E the earth; abed another circle, whosecentre, v, is in the circumference of the circleABC. Conceive the circumference of the circleA B C to be carried round the earth every twenty-four hours, according to the order of the letters,and at the same time let the centre v of the circleabed have…
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