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Common terms and phrases61 Cygni Almighty apparent magnitude Arcturus astronomers behold bodies boundless bright Cassiopeia celestial centre colour comet considerable considered constellation Cor Caroli creation Creator Cygni degrees diam diameter direction display distance Divine double stars earth eternal existence extended faint fifth magnitude firmament fixed stars globe glory grandeur heavens Herschel horizon hundred immense inhabitants intelligent Jupiter light likewise luminous magnificent meridian meteors Milky millions of miles minutes moon moral motion naked eye nature nearly nebula nebulosity north declination number of stars objects observations omnipotence Ophiuchus orbit orbs Orion parallax pass perceive perihelion period phenomena planetary planets Pleiades position principal star proper motion regions resolved into stars revolution revolving right ascension round Sagittarius scene seen sidereal Sirius small stars space splendour starry stars by Sir sublime supposed tail telescope thousand throughout tion universe Uranus variable stars vast velocity visible whole wisdom worlds Popular passagesPage 269 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, And are counted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. Page 269 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth. Page 37 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? Page 277 - Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth! Page 39 - And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. Page 87 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Page 37 - Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name: that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress. Page 281 - Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Page 276 - They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom : and talk of thy power ; To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts : and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. Page 146 - ... and, calling this a sidereal stratum, an eye placed somewhere within it will see all the stars in the direction of the planes of the stratum projected into a great circle, which will appear lucid on account of the accumulation of the stars; while the rest of the heavens, at the sides, will only seem to be scattered over with constellations, more or less crowded, according to the distance of the planes or number of stars contained in the thickness or sides of the stratum. References from web pagesThe sidereal heavens and other subjects connected with astronomy ... Bibliographic information
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