Astronomical and Geographical Essays: Containing a Full and Comprehensive View, on a New Plan, of the General Principles of Astronomy, the Use of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes ... the Description and Use of the Most Improved Planetarium, Tellurian, and Lunarium, and Also an Introduction to Practical Astronomy

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... Is nature's progress when she lectures man In heavenly truth ; evincing , as she
makes The grand transition , that there lives and works A soul in all things , and
that soul is God . The heauties of the wilderness are his , That makes so gay the ...

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Of the Solar System as seen from the Sun	3

Of the Planets as seen from the Sun	10

Of the Phenomena of the Heavens as seen from the Earth	16

PROB	19

Of the Copernican System	25

PROB PAGE 27 To find the Suns Altitude and the Hour from the Lati tude the Suns Place and Azimuth ibid	27

Of Mercury	32

Of the Moon	38

To find the Declination and right Ascension of the Sun	326

To find the Suns oblique Ascension c ibid 5 the Suns meridian Altitude	327

the Length of the longest and shortest day in Latitudes under 66 Degrees	328

the Time of Sunrising c	329

how long c the Sun shines in any Place within the Polar Circle	330

To illustrate the Equation of Time c 334	336

the Latitude and Longitude of a Star ibid 14 the Place of a Star on the Globe by c	337

On what Day a Star will come to the Meridian	338

Of Jupiter	44

PROB PAGE	47

Of the Georgium Stdus	50

Of the new Planets Ceres and Pallas c	59

Of the annual Motion of the Earth	73

Of the Phenomena occasioned by the annual and diurnal	79

Of the Seasons of the Year	83

Of the Solar and Sideral Time	92

An Explanation of the Phenomena which arise from	98

Of the Phases of Venus	109

Of the secondary Planets and Satellites	117

Of the Satellites of Jupiter c	126

Of Eclipses of the Moon	132

Of the limits of Solar and Lunar Eclipses	141

Of the fixed Stars	149

llerschel on the Construction of the Universe c	155

Of the tellescopic Appearance of the Planets	167

Of the Precession of the Equinoxes	174

Of the Tides	180

Description of the Globes	195

Of the Terrestrial Globe	203

To find the difference of Longitude between any	209

To find all those Places where it is noon at any given	210

Of finding the Longitude	216

To find the Distance of one place from another	225

To rectify for the Summer Solstice	231

Or the Suns Meridian Altitude	238

To illustrate the Distinction of Ascii	247

To find the Suns Declination	254

To steer a Ship upon the Arch of a Great Circle c	301

The Day of the Month being given to find all those	307

Of the Use of the Celestial Globe mounted in the common	314

To represent the Motions of the Equinoctial Points back wards or in antecedentia upon the Celestial Globe	320

To rectify the Celestial Globe	324

To trace the Circles of the Sphere in the Heavens	341

To find the Circle of perpetual Apparition	346

the Suns Altitude at a given Hour	347

when the Sun is due east in a given Latitude	349

the Rising Setting Culminating c of a Star	350

the liour of the Day the Altitude and Azimuth of a Star being given	351

the Altitude and Azimuth of a Star c	352

the Azimutb c at any Hour of the Night	353

the Hour the Latitude and Azimuth given	354

the Hour by Data from two Stars	355

the Hour by Data from two Stars	356

the Latitude by Data from two Stars ibid 33 The Latitude by other Data from two stars	357

when a Star rises or sets cosmically	358

when a Star will rise heliacally	361

when a Star will set heliacally	362

Of the Correspondence between the Celestial and Terrestrial Spheres	363

To find the Place of a Planet c 366 1	367

the right Ascension c of a Planet	368

the Moons Place	374

the Moons Declination	375

To illustrate the Harvest Moon	376

To find the Azimuth of the Moon and thence High Water c	381

Of Comets	382

To rectify the Globe for the Place of Observation	384

To find the Latitude c of a Comet	385

To find the Time of a Comets Rising c ibid 50 To find the same at London	386

From two given Places to assign the Comets path	387

To estimate the Velocity of a Comet	388

To represent the general Phenomena of a Comet ibid A Description of the most improved Planetarium Tellurian and Lunarium	391

PROB PAGE	392

Description of the Tellurian	409

Description of the Lunarium	427

An Introduction to Practical Astronomy in which is intro	435

Table of the Ecliptic Motions of the Planets as given	517

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Otsikko	Astronomical and Geographical Essays: Containing a Full and Comprehensive View, on a New Plan, of the General Principles of Astronomy, the Use of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes ... the Description and Use of the Most Improved Planetarium, Tellurian, and Lunarium, and Also an Introduction ...
Kirjoittaja	George Adams
Toimittaja	William Jones
Painos	6
Kustantaja	Printed for, and sold by W. & S. Jones, 1812
Alkuperäisteoksen sijainti	Michiganin yliopisto
Digitoitu	31. elokuu 2006
Pituus	518 sivua

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