The Sidereal Heavens and Other Subjects Connected with Astronomy: As Illustrative of the Character of the Deity, and of an Infinity of WorldsHarper & Brothers, 1844 - 432 páginas |
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The Sidereal Heavens and Other Subjects Connected with Astronomy: As ... Thomas Dick Vista completa - 1840 |
The Sidereal Heavens and Other Subjects Connected with Astronomy: As ... Thomas Dick Vista completa - 1840 |
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61 Cygni Almighty apparent magnitude Arcturus astronomers behold Betelguese bodies boundless bright Cassiopeia celestial centre clusters comet considerable considered constellation contemplation Cor Caroli creation Creator Cygni degrees diam diameter direction display distance Divine double star earth east eternal existence extended faint firmament fixed stars Flamstead globe glory grandeur Greek alphabet heavens Herschel horizon hundred immense inhabitants intelligent John Herschel Jupiter light likewise luminous magnificent meridian meteors Milky millions of miles minutes moon moral motion naked eye nature nearly nebula nebulosity number of stars objects observations omnipotence orbit orbs Orion parallax passes perceived perfections perihelion period phenomena planetary planets Pleiades position principal star proper motion regions revolution revolving right ascension round scene second magnitude seen sidereal Sirius small stars space splendour starry sublime supposed tail telescope thousand throughout tion universe Uranus vast velocity visible whole wisdom worlds
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Página 269 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, And are counted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Página 269 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Página 37 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Página 277 - Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
Página 39 - And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Página 87 - 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.
Página 37 - Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name: that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Página 281 - Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Página 276 - They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom : and talk of thy power ; To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts : and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.
Página 146 - ... and, calling this a sidereal stratum, an eye placed somewhere within it will see all the stars in the direction of the planes of the stratum projected into a great circle, which will appear lucid on account of the accumulation of the stars; while the rest of the heavens, at the sides, will only seem to be scattered over with constellations, more or less crowded, according to the distance of the planes or number of stars contained in the thickness or sides of the stratum.