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 198
when in theopposite part of the heaven they were said to be intheir fall or detriment, and thought to be weak.Besides this, every one had its peculiar color,metal, stone, tree, flower, animal, number, day,&.C., assigned it, whence are derived the supposedvirtues of amulets and talismans, for… … 152 WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS. had a power of attracting the influences of thatplanet. The paths or orbits of the planets round the sunmay well enough be considered as concentriccircles, having the sun in their common centre. Inthis view, they are represented in the accompanyingplate, where, the sun…
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