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 207
e the apparent change of place ofthe superior planets in the sphere of the heavens,their direct motions, stations, and retrogradations,and measure their discs with the micrometer, we shall find, by the difference of their apparent diame-ters at different times, that their apparent coursesare in… … The motions of the planets, as seen from theearth, being some of the most difficult appearancesto represent to the imagination, we shall endeavorto illustrate them by ships in motion on the sea. A body moving along the same way with the eye, with a velocity equal to that of the eye, willappear to…
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