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 375
was very dark.The ray shooting up on the right was extremely bril-liant. Stars were partially visible above the upperarch, but the bright ones in the Great Bear hadlost all their splendor, and the constellation couldjust be traced. This obscuration of the heavenlybodies reached nearly to the zenith… … what heightened and become darker, with here andthere spots of light in it, whilst from its circumfer-ence shot out brilliant rays and pencils of light.The second arch had altogether disappeared, butthe upper held its accustomed place. The upperarch was constantly paler and more indistinct in tf^…
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