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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 217

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ances happen very seldom. Excepting such transitsas these, this planet shows the same appearances tous regularly every eight years, its conjunctions,elongations, and times of rising and setting, being WMMI ■tlllT-nnmi.--J.r.^;n^-jT 168 WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS very nearly the same, on the same days,… … represented in the figure: a c? c is a bluish spot, andceb Q. brighter spot. They met in an angle at apoint c, distant from the cusp a about one third ofthe planets diameter. This astronomer also ob-served that Venus was much brighter round itslimb than in that part which separates the enlight-ened…

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