Astronomical Dialogues Between a Gentleman and a Lady: Wherein the Doctrine of the Sphere, Uses of the Globes, and the Elements of Astronomy and Geography are Explain'd in a Pleasant, Easy and Familiar War : with a Description of the Famous Instrument Called the Orrery |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 10 - She lights the downward heav'n, and rises there; And, when on us she breathes the living light, Red Vesper kindles there the tapers of the night. From hence uncertain seasons we may know; And when to reap the grain, and when to sow; Or when to fell the furzes: when 'tis meet To spread the flying canvas for the fleet.
Pagina 105 - Queen of Night, whofe large Command Rules all the Sea, and half the Land, And over moift and crazy Brains, In high Spring-tides, at Midnight reigns...
Pagina 45 - Snoias, \aitd bitter Blafts are given ;; Betwixt the midft and thefe the Gods aflignd • Two Habitable Seats for human Kind ; / . .And crofs their Limits cut a (loping Way, Which the twelve Signs in beauteous Order fway: And as five Zones the...
Pagina 108 - T average length is 27 days, 7 hours, 43.2 minutes : but in consequence of her motion in common with the earth around the sun, the mean duration of the lunar month, that is, the time from new moon to new moon, is 29 days, 12 hours, 44.05 minutes, which is called the moon's synodical period.
Pagina 69 - A way there is in heaven's extended plain, Which, when the skies are clear, is seen below, And mortals by the name of Milky know ; The groundwork is of stars, through which the road Lies open to the Thunderer's abode.
Pagina 104 - ... Astronomical Dialogues between a Gentleman and a Lady 3, probably the first of the series of works on Newtonian astronomy especially written for the instruction of the fair. The Lady certainly found the author's earlier work of value, it is repeatedly puffed throughout the Astronomical Dialogues : " My Lexicon Technicum is a ready Help to me in time of need, and I believe the Doctor composed it out of a peculiar Regard to our Sex ; I am sure we are very much obliged to him for it " (p. 104)....
Pagina 68 - A broad and ample Road! whofe Duft is Gold, And Pavement Stars, as Stars to us appear, Seen inthe Galaxy, that Milky Way , Like to a circling Zone fowder'd with Stars.
Pagina 10 - I'd Below the Regions of the nether World', Around our Poles the fpiry Dragon glides, And like a...
Pagina 6 - Knowledge would infpire more of the fair Sex, for it would mightily enlarge their Empire and Power over ours, by endowing them with more real and lafting Beauties, fuch as would improve with Time, and ftrengthen even in Age itfelf.
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Astronomical Dialogues Between a Gentleman and a Lady: Wherein the Doctrine of the Sphere, Uses of the Globes, and the Elements of Astronomy and Geography are Explain'd in a Pleasant, Easy and Familiar War : with a Description of the Famous Instrument Called the Orrery |
| Auteur | John Harris |
| Uitgever | T. Wood, 1719 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de University of Michigan |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 20 juni 2007 |
| Lengte | 184 pagina's |
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