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Light Science for Leisure Hours: A Series of Familiar Essays on Scientific ... Richard Anthony Proctor Visualització completa - 1883 |
Light Science for Leisure Hours: A Series of Familiar Essays on Scientific ... Richard Anthony Proctor Visualització completa - 1886 |
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Pàgina 16 - We have but faith: we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow. Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Pàgina 209 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Pàgina 255 - And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
Pàgina 301 - The Orbs Around Us; a Series of Familiar Essays on the Moon and Planets, Meteors and Comets, the Sun and Coloured Pairs of Suns. By RA Proctor, BA Second Edition, with Chart and 4 Diagrams. Crown 8vo. 'js. 6d. Other Worlds than Ours; The Plurality of Worlds Studied under the Light of Recent Scientific Researches.
Pàgina 301 - A New Star Atlas, for the Library, the School, and the Observatory, in 12 Circular Maps (with 2 Index Plates). By RA PROCTOR, BA Crown 8vo.
Pàgina 302 - LIGHT SCIENCE FOR LEISURE HOURS : Familiar Essays on Scientific Subjects, Natural Phenomena, etc.
Pàgina 301 - Essays on Astronomy. A Series of Papers on Planets and Meteors, the Sun and Sun-surrounding Space, Stars and Star Cloudlets. By RA Proctor, BA With 10 Plates and '24 Woodcuts.
Pàgina 257 - See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
Pàgina 255 - And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath day, and said unto the people. There are six days in which men ought to work in them therefore come and be healed; and not on the Sabbath day...
Pàgina 302 - A Treatise on the Cycloid, and on all forms of Cycloidal Curves, and on the use of Cycloidal Curves in dealing with the Motions of Planets, Comets, &c. and of Matter projected from the Sun.