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 328
ts (whichare dots on plates of gold or platina let into mas-sive blocks of stone, and which are, or at least oughtto be, in all cases preserved with almost religiouscare as monumental records of the highest impor-tance) is then measured with every precaution toinsure precision,* and its position… … from both its extremities, (one of which, 0, we willsuppose to be an observatory, with which it is anobject that the base should be as closely and imme-diately connected as possible,) and D, E, F, G, H,K other stations, remarkable points in the country,by whose connection its whole surface may…
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