The Cooling Globe; Or, The Mechanics of GeologyWalker, Wise, 1865 - 63 oldal |
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1. oldal - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
36. oldal - The heavens declare the glory of God: And the firmament showeth His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge.
15. oldal - ... Turning his optical tube towards the heavens, Galileo perceived the moon to be a body of uneven surface, the elevations of which he computed by their shadows ; and the sun to be occasionally spotted ; and from the regular advance from east to west of these spots, he inferred the rotation of the sun, a,nd the inclination of its axis to the plane of the ecliptic. From a particular nebula, which his rude instrument enabled him to resolve into individual stars, he even conjectured, what Lord Rosse...
62. oldal - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
62. oldal - But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the Ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
15. oldal - ... viz. they can happen only when Venus is between the earth and the sun, and when the earth is nearly in a line with one of the -nodes of Venus.* The last transit of Venus was in 1769, and there will not happen another of them till the year 1874. The time which this planet takes to revolve on its axis, and the inclination of its axis to the plane of its orbit, have been given by different astronomers ; but Dr. Herschel, from a long series of observations on this planet, published in the Philosophical...
40. oldal - ... precisely one of our months. The rotations of Jupiter's satellites also nicely correspond with the periods of their revolution around that planet, and all we know or suspect of the attendants on Saturn is in obedience to the same law. Why this is so is unknown — it is one of those dark points that stir us to profounder inquiry concerning the scheme in which we are; but it is not difficult to trace some of its effects. Owing to this arrangement the moon always turns the same face towards the...
14. oldal - The inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic is 23° 28', and the variations from this value are scarcely perceptible.
12. oldal - Among the facts referred to are, (1) variation in the obliquity of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic...
24. oldal - The vicissitudes of the seasons are caused by the annual revolution of the earth round the sun, together with the inclination of its axis to the plane of its orbit. It has already been explained, that the ecliptic is the plane of the earth's orbit, and is supposed to be placed on a level with the earth's horizon, and hence, that this plane is considered the standard, by which the inclination of the lines crossing the earth, and the obliquity of the orbits of the...