On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations |
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Page 91
... stars appear crimson , and the aurora borealis is wit- nessed almost every night . In Spitzbergen , also , are seen many phenomena common to Greenland and Baffin's Bay , while at a distance from the coast are beheld large ice islands ...
... stars appear crimson , and the aurora borealis is wit- nessed almost every night . In Spitzbergen , also , are seen many phenomena common to Greenland and Baffin's Bay , while at a distance from the coast are beheld large ice islands ...
Page 216
... stars , too , have motions and periodical variations in their lustres and apparent magnitudes . * There are many stars known to ancient astronomers now in- visible , † and others are now visible which were not so formerly . Some have ...
... stars , too , have motions and periodical variations in their lustres and apparent magnitudes . * There are many stars known to ancient astronomers now in- visible , † and others are now visible which were not so formerly . Some have ...
Page 221
... stars ; once counted among the red stars , now among the white ; of a size 324 times that of a star of the sixth magnitude , and supposed by Wollaston to throw out a light more than equal to fourteen suns : doubtless , too , accompanied ...
... stars ; once counted among the red stars , now among the white ; of a size 324 times that of a star of the sixth magnitude , and supposed by Wollaston to throw out a light more than equal to fourteen suns : doubtless , too , accompanied ...
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