| Richard Henry Stoddard - Naturalists - 1809 - 518 pages
...acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and De la Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship,...phosphorescent Clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon. The heavens and the earth, everything in the equinoctial regions, presents an exotic character." The lower... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1818 - 666 pages
...acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and de la Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship,...Magellan, arise on the horizon. The heaven, and the earth, everything in the equinoctial regions, assumes an exotic character._J The lower regions of the air... | |
| William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...any acquaintance with the celestial charts of Fiainstead und de la Caille, feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense constellation of the ship,...phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon. In the sixteenth decree of latitude, we saw dUtiuctly, says HUMBOLDT, the Сгоя of the South only... | |
| William Jillard Hort - English prose literature - 1822 - 290 pages
...without any very deep knowledge of astronomy, he will feel that he is not in Europe, when he beholds the immense constellation of the ship, or the phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon. The sky as well as the earth, in the equinoctial regions, assumes an exotic character. For several days... | |
| Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and De le Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship,...the equinoctial regions assumes an exotic character. We saw distinctly, for the first time, the cross of the south only, on the night of the 4th and 5th... | |
| John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1825 - 151 pages
...acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and de la Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship,...character. " The lower regions of the air were loaded with vapours for some days. We saw distinctly for the first time the Cross of the south, in the sixteenth... | |
| William Adams (M.A.) - Voyages and travels - 1832 - 516 pages
...acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and De le Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship,...equinoctial regions, assumes an exotic character." We saw distinctly, for the first time, the Cross of the south only, on the night of the 4th and 5th... | |
| John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1829 - 202 pages
...acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and de la Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship,...character. " The lower regions of the air were loaded with vapours for some days. We saw distinctly for the first time the Cross of the south, in the sixteenth... | |
| English essays - 1829 - 712 pages
...acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and De la Caille, he feels he is not in Europe when he sees the immense constellation of the ship,...equinoctial regions, assumes an exotic character.'' But the Naturalist who traces the globe with the inquiry of a sage, and who wishes to throw light upon... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1829 - 738 pages
...acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and De la Caille, he feels he is not in Europe when he sees the immense constellation of the ship,...thing in the equinoctial regions, assumes an exotic character.'1 But the Naturalist who traces the globe with the inquiry of a sage, and who wishes to... | |
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