This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and inconvenience as possible. Innumerable snakes twine through long and contorted areas of the... Lessons on the globes - الصفحة 403بواسطة T H. Howe - 1842عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...point to point, as we mark out the course of * This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely...and contorted areas of the heavens, where no memory cart follow them ; bears, lions and fishes, large and small, northern and southern, confuse all nomenclature,... | |
| sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...point to point, as we mark out the course of * This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely...and inconvenience as possible. Innumerable snakes tw>ne through long and contorted areas of the heavens, where no memory can follow them ; bears, lions... | |
| Thomas Spofford - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 84
...of men and monsters, on celestial globes and maps, where one figure runs into another, and numerous snakes twine through long and contorted areas of the heavens where no memory can follow them, and bears, lions, and fishes, large and small, northern and southern, confuse all nonienclature, &c.... | |
| William Whewell - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...convenience and love of arrangement. " The constellations," says an astronomer of our own time 33 , seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and incon" Job xxxviii. 31. " Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Chima (the Pleiades) or loose the... | |
| William Whewell - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 1048
...mere convenience and love of arrangement. "The constellations," says an astronomer of our own time", seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and incon25 Job xxxviii. 31. " Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Chima (the Pleiades) or loose the... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 266
...letters of the Greek alphabet attached to lbem. "This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely...through long and contorted areas of the heavens, where no.memory can follow them ; bears, lions', and fishes, large and small, northern and southern, confuse... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 262
...letters of" the Greek alphabet attached to them. "This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely...and contorted areas of the heavens, where no memory call follow them ; bears, lions, and fishes, large and small, northern and southern, confuse all nomenclature,... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 298
...alphabet attached to them. " This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations eeem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much conuieion and inconvenience as possible. Innumerable snakes twine throngh long and contorted areas... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 278
...letters of the Greek alphabet attached to them. "This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely...confusion and inconvenience as possible. Innumerable suakes twine through long and contorted areas of the heavens, where no memory can follow them ; bears,... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...and there learn for himself their position. * This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely...confusion and inconvenience as possible. Innumerable snakei twine through long and contorted areas of the heavens, where no memory can follow them ; bears,... | |
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