| 单词 | fixed star |
| 例句 | The outermost sphere carried the so-called fixed stars, which always stay in the same positions relative to each other but which rotate together across the sky. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He placed the Sun “among” the fixed stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But the key facts were clear from De Nova Stella—that the object was fixed among the fixed stars and met every criterion to be regarded as a genuinely new star. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Tycho’s idea was that the Earth is fixed at the centre of the Universe and that the Sun, the Moon and the fixed stars orbit around the Earth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z When Galileo pointed his telescope towards Jupiter on the night of 7 January 1610, he noticed what he took to be some fixed stars near the planet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The universe was contained in a nutshell, ensconced comfortably within the sphere of fixed stars; the cosmos was finite in extent, and entirely filled with matter. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Something must be moving the sphere of fixed stars. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The zodiac of the fixed stars is the outermost visible sphere, with three invisible spheres beyond. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The sphere of fixed stars is the outer ring. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Some of these fixed stars do, in fact, appear to change very slightly their positions relative to each other as the earth orbits around the sun: they are not really fixed at all! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion…" Let's give Fani Willis her flowers now 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z Babylonian astronomers had previously measured the positions of some stars around the zodiac, the constellations that lie along the ecliptic—the Sun’s annual path against the fixed stars, as seen from Earth. First Known Map of Night Sky Found Hidden in Medieval Parchment 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The satellite — basically a large balloon — zipped across the inky darkness, a moving object against a field of fixed stars. Perspective | Remembering the U.S. airline that took reservations for moon trips 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z How many degrees does the Sun move per day relative to the fixed stars? Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z It takes a hazzanut melody and spins it out along an out-of-body journey past moon, Mercury, Venus, sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and distant fixed stars. Commentary: Thomas Adès' fantastical 'Dante' at the L.A. Phil makes Gen X proud 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z The stars’ relative positions remained unchanged, so the Greeks called them the “fixed stars.” An Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculation Machine Reveals New Secrets 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z They demonstrate, in a country touched by flux and equivocation and the endless mutability of opinion, that there have always been warriors who embrace principle as a fixed star, not a fashion statement. Editorial Roundup: Louisiana 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Since then, he has become a fixed star in the Premier League firmament, arguably the central figure at United, if not officially the club’s captain then, to some extent, an avatar of its soul. The Making of Marcus Rashford 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z How many degrees does the Moon move per day relative to the fixed stars? Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z However, advanced photo hounds with the right equipment may be able to snag a digital image of the rocky interloper gliding across the sky against the background of fixed stars. Giant Asteroid Makes Christmas Eve Flyby 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z For decades he was, Teachout says, “the fixed star in the crowded sky of American popular culture.” The Frank Sinatra we remember 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The solar day would always be 24 hours if the sun “moved” east against the background of fixed stars at a constant rate. Equation Of Time Watches Allow Us A Glimpse Of The Solar System 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Grosseteste needed to account for nine perfect spheres in the medieval geocentric cosmos: the 'firmament', the fixed stars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon. History: A medieval multiverse 2014-03-12T18:50:34.997Z Noticing these motions, the Greeks of 2000 years ago distinguished between what they called the fixed stars—those that maintain fixed patterns among themselves through many generations—and the wandering stars, or planets. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z With my husband and children nearly 1,000 miles away, I was severed from my fixed stars. The Problem With How We Treat Bipolar Disorder 2013-04-26T11:00:57Z It calls us to refuse the pull of passing interests and follow the fixed star of a more perfect union. House Speaker John Boehner’s address to the opening session of the 113th Congress (Transcript) 2013-01-03T19:10:00Z She saw that in the glitter of this roving comet there was the stuff out of which fixed stars are fashioned, and she lived near him at Weimar from 1848 to 1861. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The chemical constitution of many fixed stars has already been investigated. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Many people believe that the total number of fixed stars is 1025, but this is an evident error. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z So the name fixed stars would appear to have been well chosen. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z As regards his place in the musical pantheon, this erst-while comet is now a fixed star, and his feet set upon the white throne. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Their observations of ten lunar eclipses, and three conjunctions of planets and fixed stars, have come down to us. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z He was also the first advocate of Copernican views in England, and he concluded that the fixed stars are not all at the same distance from the earth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z J. E. Gore, F.R.A.S.—Changes of color, brightness, and position in the fixed stars as attested to by the records of the ancient and modern astronomers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. 2011-12-26T03:00:15.410Z His observations soon showed that the new object he had seen could not be a fixed star, because it moved from night to night among the stars. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z The soul of a poor mariner might be tempest tossed on all the oceans of the world, but the soul of Mary Pridmore was the fixed star of his faith. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Of these, the first contained the arrangement of the fixed stars; the second and third the coincidences of the orbits of the sun and moon; the fourth, the rising of the constellations. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z He was fashionable, in the manner of ping-pong; and there were not wanting pessimistic prophets who looked upon him as a comet rather than a fixed star. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z The farol of Magellan will go on; it will never cease to shine, and the cast-out name of the Christian Knight will become a fixed star amid the lights that have inspired the world. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z But two years later its light tripled, rivaling all the fixed stars except Canopus and Sirius. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z The eighth sphere had neither deferent nor epicycle but to it were attached the fixed stars. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z But, if a fixed star, its position in the constellation would not vary, while, if a planet, a single night would show a perceptible change of place. Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions 2011-09-17T02:00:31.747Z The stars were worshipped; Istar herself was originally the evening star, and most of the principal deities were identified with the planets and chief fixed stars. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z The cosmography, of course, is roughly that of Dante and Chaucer; seven spheres beneath the eighth, which is the sphere of the fixed stars and the highest visible heaven. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The one furthest from the so called cross is held to be the fixed star nearest to the earth, but its distance from us is twenty thousand times farther than that of the sun. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z He also speaks of his observations of fixed stars as being in his Four Voyages. The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career 2011-08-02T02:00:24.457Z The object differed in appearance from the surrounding stars, but still it was perfectly possible that it might be a fixed star which had escaped previous observation. Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions 2011-09-17T02:00:31.747Z A line then drawn from the earth, and passing through the centre of the sun, would, if extended to the fixed stars, touch the first degree of Libra. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z "It even includes an object labelled as 'fixed star' which is the first telescopic drawing of the planet Neptune." Mystery planet 2011-07-11T09:06:38Z The fixed stars are, to our eyes, brilliant points of light; their rays broken in passing through these currents, exhibit an agitation which is not shown by the planets. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z In the highest place is the sphere of the fixed stars, an immovable sphere, which surrounds the whole of the universe. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z Certainly a bright fixed star seemed to shine over this girl by her side and over the Jack she appeared to adore. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z There is exactly the same difference as between the light of the sun and that of the moon; the first being a fixed star, the second a planet. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z The mountain-castle of Liana was invisible, and showed, like a fixed star, only a light. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Englishmen and Orientals have this fixed star on the breast oftener than any other people. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z Brahe's System. way that the sun, the moon, and the sphere of the fixed stars, which incloses all, have the earth for their centre. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z But by repeatedly taking 15-minute exposures of the star field, subtracting the fixed stars and then superimposing the images, the researchers generated an image of their ultimate target. Video: Rosetta Probe Gets First Glimpse of Its Ultimate Target 2011-06-08T22:17:47Z In order to ascertain when the earth has performed an entire revolution in its orbit, we must observe when the sun returns in conjunction with any fixed star; and this is called a sidereal year. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z This is, probably, the kind of reasoning on which those rely, who regard the fixed stars as so many worlds, or centres of families of worlds. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z So, according to Euler, a fixed star in the heavens may still, on account of its distance, continue to transmit its light, though it has long since been consumed to ashes. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z All the rest of their system was the same as that of Ptolemy, for the sun itself, and the other planets and the fixed stars all revolved round the earth in the centre. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z At a meeting of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, held on May 31 last, the venerable Alexander von Humboldt made an interesting communication upon some observations of singular movements of fixed stars. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z A planet has frequently been pointed out to me in the heavens; but I could not perceive that its motion differed from that of the fixed stars, which only appear to move. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z In the case of a fixed star, we have much less reason to look for such a cycle, than we have in Encke's comet. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z In the twilight and the moonshine the fixed stars, which are suns, retire and veil themselves in obscurity; whilst the planets, which are simply earths, preserve their borrowed light unobscured. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z The fixed stars must execute the upper note, and the moon the base. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z The fixed stars all in bitter fun Declare I'm a lost and prodigal son. Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems 2011-04-14T02:01:01.217Z Mrs. B. They are the fixed stars; which the ancients, in order to recognise them, formed into groups, and gave the names of the figures, which you find delineated on the celestial globe. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z And this feeling may be still further increased, if they are led to believe also that many of the fixed stars are not the centres of inhabited systems; or that very few, or none are. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z The official gods were identified with the planets and fixed stars, and the stellar cult of the people was thus absorbed into the State religion. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z It appears then from this review that the phrases "starry vault," and especially "fixed stars," have been used in two very distinct senses. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z The fixed stars became, for him, suns surrounded by planets. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Secondly, the light of the planets being only reflected light, is much more feeble than that of the fixed stars. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z And again, the distance which lies between us and such stars, shrinks into incalculable smallness, when we journey in thought to other fixed stars. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z They also discovered the so-called "trepidation" or apparent shifting of the fixed stars to explain which they added another sphere to Ptolemy's eight. The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe 2011-04-03T02:00:15.847Z Although all the fixed stars move on the same surface of the heavens, their number cannot be determined. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z The sun displaces the earth as the central point of the universe: around it revolve the planets—including the earth; and, at an immeasurable distance, is the immovable heaven of the fixed stars. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z The fixed stars are so called, because they retain their relative situations; while the planets, by revolving in their orbits, appear to wander amongst the fixed stars. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z But are not the fixed stars the suns of other systems? The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z The universe according to Copernicus, though vastly greater than that conceived by Aristotle and Ptolemy, was still finite because enclosed within the sphere of the fixed stars. The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe 2011-04-03T02:00:15.847Z When she had gained over two or three of these fixed stars, the planets of Parisian society began to appear at these balls. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z In ancient astronomy the firmament was the eighth sphere containing the fixed stars surrounding the seven spheres of the planets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z What a wonderful and beautiful system this is, and how astonishing to think that every fixed star may probably be attended by a similar train of planets! Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z The fixed stars, which appear to the eye so numerous, so innumerable, in the clear sky on a moonless night, are not really so numerous as they seem. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z These men were the first who perceived by observation that the fixed stars were carried backward quite contrary to the movement of the Primum Mobile. The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe 2011-04-03T02:00:15.847Z Planets, in their social relations, are notably much more fastidious than fixed stars, as is but natural; they are forced to reflect a light not their own. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z The planets, the sun, the fixed stars, all belong to one species; namely, that of stars—they, therefore, all move, or all stand still. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z There is a fixed star situated near that spot, which is hence called the north polar star. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z But again, this whole Solar System itself, with all its orbits and planets, shrinks into a mere point, when compared with the nearest fixed star. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z Even then he has only reached the nearest fixed star, and, of course, has only just entered upon the outer limit of creation. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z There are fixed stars—suns—so distant from us, the astronomers say, that it requires hundreds of thousands and even millions of years for a ray of light to reach us from those distant suns! Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse 2011-02-24T03:01:00.270Z But it is not so among the fixed stars and planets and meteors and satellites of our particularly flamboyant constellation. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z That seems quite unaccountable; for the earth advances in her orbit with regard to the fixed stars, the same as with regard to the sun. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z That these periodical changes in certain of the fixed stars are a curious and interesting astronomical fact, is indisputable. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z In the sun and fixed stars, the condensation has gone on so far that cohesive attraction begins to operate, the latent heat of the vapor is extricated, and melted luminous worlds are the result. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z At last wearied nature gave way, and he fell off in a slumber, filled with dreams of planets, moons, comets, and fixed stars. Strive and Thrive or, Stories for the Example and Encouragement of the Young 2011-02-07T03:00:25.547Z Our economical "fixed stars" are fixed only in a relative sense. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z If the fixed stars are suns, with planets revolving round them, why should we not see those planets as well as their suns? Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z In those days she had shone as a bright planet rather than a fixed star. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z The fixed stars may have planets circling around them, but an application of the same principles will show how hopeless is the prospect of ever seeing them in a telescope. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z In the new system, the sphere of the fixed stars no longer revolved diurnally, the earth rotating instead on an axis directed towards the celestial pole. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Nature’s boundary is the outer sphere of the fixed stars, which is eternally moved day after day in a uniform circle round the earth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" But they may see our sun as we do theirs, in appearance a fixed star? Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z The fixed stars preserve, at least to unaided vision, an unalterable relation to each other, because of their vast distance from the earth. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Sirius, for example, the brightest of the fixed stars, is of the -1 magnitude, and such stars as Arcturus and Vega are of the 0 magnitude. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z In the case of the greater number of the fixed stars this is so slow that centuries may have to elapse before motion can be deduced. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The distance from the earth to the sun compared with that from the earth to the fixed stars is extremely small. Catholic Churchmen in Science The one farthest from the Cross is regarded as the fixed star nearest to the earth, but its distance from us is twenty thousand times that of the sun. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands Much success has been achieved in ascertaining the parallax of fixed stars. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Their very name, fixed stars, implies that they are at rest, and so astronomers long believed. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z It revolves indeed in an entire course, from a fixed star round to that star again. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments He made still other observations, and thus determined the fact that it was a planetoid and not a fixed star with which he had to deal. Catholic Churchmen in Science Olympus is surrendered for the planets and the fixed stars. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The objects with which astronomy has chiefly to deal are the earth, the sun, the moon, the planets, the fixed stars, comets, nebul�, and meteors. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli XIII.—The fixed stars 291 Number of the stars—Brightness—Distance—Proper motion—Motion in line of sight—Double stars—Variable stars—New stars. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z Alphonsus made out that this motion was still slower, completing one degree and 28 minutes only in 200 years; and that thus the course of the fixed stars went on, though unequally. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments Why are you a fixed star, after telling us you were engaged as a planet? Tony Butler At ten, or fifteen degrees even from the sun, when this luminary is above the horizon, all the fixed stars vanish from the most powerful telescopes. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. First is the "counter-earth," a non-existent body invented by the Pythagoreans, next comes the earth, then the sun, the moon, the five planets, and lastly the heaven of the fixed stars. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy This consideration then makes it necessary to give it a name whereby it may be distinguished from the rest of the planets and fixed stars. Astronomical Discovery How immeasurable then must be the space which stretches to those remotest of fixed stars! On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments And finally this young man set in the sky of human aspiration a fixed star of hope. Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day There is nothing analogous to them in the universe at present; for they were neither fixed stars nor planets, but seem to have stood in the mutual relation of sun and planet to each other. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The sphere of the fixed stars on the same poles revolves once from east to west within 365 revolutions of the earth, hours 6.9.29.1. The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 They observed the positions of the fixed stars and nebulæ: these being generally the results required by Halley and Newton. Astronomical Discovery The distances of the firmament and of the fixed stars seem to the best mathematicians inconceivable. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. The Voice and Spiritual Education This view is confirmed by the language of the 104th Psalm, which in this part of the work mentions the sun and moon alone, without the fixed stars or planets. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Then, ... the heavens themselves will lend aid to the woeful pomp of the senseless funeral in full darkness by suddenly lighting the unhappy lamps of the fixed stars. The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 Why are fixed stars like wicked old men? The Handbook of Conundrums That is, "If this be so, there must needs be changes, and retrogressions of the fixed stars." On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments Dante, like other medieval mystics, symbolized the highest order of created beings by the fixed stars, and God by the darkness beyond them, the Primum Mobile. Ideas of Good and Evil It may here be stated that his power of vision, in looking at the fixed stars, was no greater or less than that of an ordinary eye. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. It was a nearer sun than Dryden, Milton, Shakspeare; as for Spenser and Chaucer, they were little better than fixed stars. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 K�rner becomes a fixed star in the heaven of her thought. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) But, in the first place, it is not likely that the highest heaven and all those visible splendours of the fixed stars are impelled along that most rapid and useless course. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments They went on journeys among other fixed stars of greater magnitude. Command Metals seem to be connected with fixed stars and planets on the principle of color. Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms But she was like a comet in its brilliant but erratic course through the heavens, and no longer a fixed star, whose orbit is known. Francezka The little fixed star in Una’s eye was never so bright–a twinkling star of portent. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl But it is ridiculous for a man a philosopher to suppose that all the fixed stars and the planets and the still higher heavens revolve to no other purpose, save the advantage of the Earth. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments In Milton, therefore, we find the earth the centre of the visible universe, while the sun, the planets, and the fixed stars revolve about it in their several spheres. Minor Poems by Milton Thus we arrive at a system of classification according to motion, by which fixed stars are differentiated from planets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" My friends, when we arrive at these, we are no longer among the measurable planets, but among the immeasurable fixed stars. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy Una’s face flamed upon the bribe, and was so pretty lit by that fixed star in the eye, that it must have been a zero-hearted nickum who could turn his back upon it. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl Both girls turned their faces resolutely in opposite directions, and remained for an hour with their large eyes looking out into the moonlit chamber, like the fixed stars over Harpswell Bay. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine By the firmament is usually understood the sphere of the fixed stars. Minor Poems by Milton Phi- losophy never has produced, nor can it reproduce, these stars of the first magnitude—fixed stars in the heavens of Soul. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 Next to him the rank and file of Smaller casks, fixed stars and planets. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. He has no more idea of an olive-tree than if olives grew only in the fixed stars. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) Napoleon, trusting to the word and to the ideal Liberty, to man's unstable desires and to his own most fixed star, yokes France in 1800 to his chariot wheels. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe We feel certain that Miss Salls has already become a fixed star in the empyrean of the United. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 It was he who represented to her henceforth the ideal which, like a fixed star, should give light to her path, though so immeasurably far above her. A Manifest Destiny The space-stick moved a little, all Friday dared, at their speed; the position dials swung; the dot of a fixed star that had been visible a moment before through the bow windows was now gone. Hawk Carse Both the wandering stars and the fixed stars are 'animate beings, divine and eternal', self-acting subordinate gods. Five Stages of Greek Religion These whorls represent respectively the sun and moon, the five planets, and the fixed stars. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer In other words: However far we might travel through space, we should find everywhere an attenuated swarm of fixed stars of approrimately the same kind and density. Relativity: The Special and General Theory She would know Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Adonis or any of the other fixed stars the darkest night that ever blew. Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) For if the passage had only given the meridian plane, but without permitting the astronomer to observe the southing of any fixed star, it would have subserved only one-half its purposes as a meridional instrument. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 That Auntie Jan loved them both with her whole heart was now one of the fixed stars in Tony's firmament of beliefs. Jan and Her Job They prefer the kaleidoscopic change of the streets to the stationary beauty of the bar, and while admitting the unfleeting quality of the fixed stars they worship the procession of the equinoxes. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule It takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun, four hours from Neptune the most distant planet, and from the nearest fixed star about three and a half years. The Machinery of the Universe Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena An American essayist bids us "keep our eyes on the fixed stars." Three Addresses to Girls at School The most distant region he called Olympus; the space between the fixed stars and the moon he called κόσμος; the space between the moon and the earth οὐρανός. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero Bard Macdonald is a very poor man, yet he has contrived to hitch his waggon on to a fixed star. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The discovery of "an innumerable multitude of fixed stars" in the Milky Way confounded the received ideas. Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works Twinkle and twinkling are used of the intermittent light of the fixed stars. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions We must get rid at once of the notion that it would be possible for any fixed star to behave in this manner. The Children's Book of Stars It burst out suddenly with overpowering splendor, far outshining every fixed star, and even equaling Venus at her brightest. Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers The distances of the fixed stars had, we know, been a perennial problem, and many had been the attempts to solve it. Pioneers of Science But not being satisfied, I continued to work upon it till August 27, 1789, when it was tried upon the fixed stars, and I found it to give a pretty sharp image. Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works The old idea was that the stars were absolutely fixed; hence arose the term "fixed stars"—a term which, though inaccurate, has not yet been entirely banished from the astronomical vocabulary. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language To begin with, the fixed stars are many of them actually travelling at a great velocity at present, yet so immeasurably distant are they that their movement makes no perceptible difference to us. The Children's Book of Stars Although it requires a very large telescope to magnify their disks to measurable dimensions, yet the smallest glass differentiates them at once from the fixed stars. Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers As twenty-six feet is to the distance of New York, so is ninety-two million miles to the distance of the nearest fixed star. Pioneers of Science Here was the discovery which came to take the place of the detection of the parallaxes of the fixed stars. Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works We have seen how, in very early times, men portioned out the great mass of the so-called "fixed stars" into divisions known as constellations. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language It requires great care and patience and infinite labour before the very delicate observations which alone can reveal to us anything of the nature of the fixed stars can be accomplished. The Children's Book of Stars The fixed stars must have become familiar, and have been recognized in their various groupings before it could have been known that there were others that were not fixed,—were "planets," i. e. wanderers. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture By thus measuring the angles between a planet and two fixed stars, its position can be plotted down on a celestial map or globe. Pioneers of Science That any fixed star should be entirely at rest would require that the attractions on all sides of it should be exactly balanced. Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works Be not, as the fixed stars, cold and distant; but be ever bathing in the sunshine of conscious nearness to Him who is the sun and center of all happiness and joy. The Mind of Jesus We need not, indeed, cry for infinity, for the distances of the fixed stars from us are so immeasurable that to atoms like ourselves they may well seem unlimited. The Children's Book of Stars What is the difference between planets and fixed stars and name three of the latter. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Bradley was engaged in making observations to determine if possible the parallax of some of the fixed stars. Pioneers of Science On the nature and construction of the sun and fixed stars. Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works France has produced many remarkable women; perhaps no other country can boast such an array of illustrious names; they shine from the pages of French history like fixed stars from the firmament. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Vast as are the intervals between ourselves and our planetary neighbours, they are as nothing to the space that separates us from the nearest of the steady shining fixed stars. The Children's Book of Stars On the following night he measured its distance from the nearest stars in the constellation, and arrived at the conclusion that it was a fixed star, and beyond our system. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' If the earth revolved round the sun, how came it that the fixed stars showed no parallax? Pioneers of Science On the method of observing the changes that happen to the fixed stars; with some remarks on the stability of the light of our sun. Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works On the utmost height a point of light appeared, shining for a moment with the steady radiance of a fixed star. The Young Ranchers or, Fighting the Sioux No, these shooting stars are not stars at all, though they were so named, long before the real motions of the fixed stars were even dimly guessed at. The Children's Book of Stars When engaged in exploring the celestial regions with his telescope, Galileo observed a marked difference in the appearance of the fixed stars, as compared with that of the planets. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' The fixed stars!—they were not fixed a bit. Pioneers of Science These investigations were never for the discovery of new facts concerning the working of his instruments; it was for the knowledge of the distribution of the fixed stars in space itself that he strove. Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works One struck him because it presented a distinct disc, while the true fixed stars, however brilliant, are, even with the most powerful telescope, mere points of light. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In The long-baffled search for a parallax of the fixed stars was resumed with fresh zeal as each mechanical or optical improvement held out fresh hopes of a successful issue. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition The positions of the fixed stars and the paths of the planets were determined with greater accuracy, and irregularities of the motions of the Sun and Moon were investigated with greater precision. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' So with the fixed stars: they were being observed from a moving carriage—viz. the earth—and one moving at the rate of nineteen miles a second. Pioneers of Science On the proper motion of the sun and solar system, with an account of several changes that have happened among the fixed stars since the time of Mr. Flamsteed. Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works If they are not satisfied with their places, they must not move; for they are fixed stars. The Nursery, November 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 5 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Four and a third such measures are needed to span the abyss that separates us from the nearest fixed star. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition This led him to conclude that the fixed stars were not illumined by the Sun, because their brilliancy in all their changes of position remained unaltered. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' A parallel stream fixed in space necessarily exhibits a definite aspect with reference to the fixed stars. Pioneers of Science A third catalogue of the comparative brightness of the stars, with an introductory account of an index to Mr. Flamsteed's observations of the fixed stars, contained in the second volume of the Historia Cœlestis. Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works The planets—and our earth among them—move around the sun; but the sun stands still; and all the stars which are suns, shine always in the same place, and are hence called fixed stars. The Nursery, September 1877, Vol. XXII, No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers The position of the planet Uranus was recorded as that of a fixed star no less than twenty times between 1690 and the epoch of its final detection by Herschel. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition The extent of the distance which intervenes between our system and the fixed stars constituted a problem which exercised the minds of astronomers from an early period until the middle of the present century. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' In June the earth is 184 million miles away from where it was in December: how can we see precisely the same fixed stars? Pioneers of Science Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from "their spheres," And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears! History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature The question as to the "secular parallax" of the fixed stars was in effect answered. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Galileo was unable to reconcile the altered positions of those bodies with the apparent motion of Jupiter among the fixed stars as indicated by the astronomical tables. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' That farthest from the Cross is regarded as one of the fixed stars nearest to the earth, but its distance from us is twenty thousand times that of the sun. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands But when he infers from this that the farther a sphere is from the fixed stars the more rapid is its motion from west to east, his conclusion is not true to fact. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy He has succeeded in throwing out his measure-line to one of the fixed stars. Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 I have been told about the distances from our earth to the sun, to the other planets, and to the fixed stars. The World I Live In Galileo suggested a method of obtaining the parallax of the fixed stars, by observing two stars of unequal magnitude apparently near to each other, though really far apart. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Yet, notwithstanding this immense size, our sun is quite a small body as compared with some of the fixed stars, which, as perhaps you may know, are really suns at an inconceivable distance from us. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story Stranger still is the existence and distribution of the fixed stars in the eighth sphere. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Its light alone would hardly be sufficient to discriminate it from many of the brighter fixed stars. The Story of the Heavens I mean his lust for logic for its own sake, and the way he kept mathematical truths in his mind like the fixed stars. What I Saw in America It had long been the ambitious desire of astronomers to accomplish, if possible, a measurement of the abyss which separates our system from the nearest of the fixed stars. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Some of them, which we can see, are planets belonging to our own solar system, but doubtless there are myriads of planets which revolve round those millions of distant suns which we call fixed stars. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story He sets in motion the outer sphere of the fixed stars, and so the whole world moves. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy In the present chapter we propose to give an account of what the spectroscope tells us about the physical constitution of the fixed stars. The Story of the Heavens It is as if he were wandering in another world among the fixed stars; or worse still, in an ideal Utopia of the future. What I Saw in America In 1669, Hooke made the first attempt to ascertain the parallax of a fixed star, and selected for this purpose γ Draconis, a bright star in the Head of the Dragon. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' His like the fixed stars, shining far above, clear and serene, from age to age, in their own changeless firmament. Memories of Bethany The intermediate world consists of the spheres, planets and fixed stars. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy But the spectra of the fixed stars can also tell us something about orbital motion in these extremely distant systems. The Story of the Heavens They could, moreover, explain the effects produced by the fixed stars whose rays were conjoined with the comet's. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars—not like the seven that move, but like the fixed stars. The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays Our earth catches a very small fraction of the sun's heat; our sun is but one of millions—the fixed stars. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study From this emanated the sphere of the fixed stars moved by it and the second Intelligence. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy The study of the spectra of the fixed stars made hardly any progress until the principles of spectrum analysis had been established by Kirchhoff in 1859. The Story of the Heavens Moreover, like the other fixed stars, it kept its place unchanged, showing unmistakably that it belonged to the star-depths, not to nearer regions. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy I am going from the country of the seven wandering stars, and I am going to the country of the fixed stars!... The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays That branch of the science which relates to the fixed stars. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. First came the sphere of the fixed stars, then in order the spheres of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Moon. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy We observe the fixed stars, and measure the aberration. The Story of the Heavens The chief fixed stars had various influences assigned to them by astrologers. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy In examining the fixed stars, and comparing them with the planets, Galileo observed a remarkable difference in the appearance of their discs. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler The time shown by a clock regulated by the fixed stars, and compensated to accelerate upon mean time by the daily amount of 3 minutes 56·56 seconds. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Once the distances of our Solar System seemed almost infinite quantities; compare them with the intervals between the fixed stars, and they become no quantities at all. Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall The expression fixed star, so often used in astronomy, is to be received in a very qualified sense. The Story of the Heavens They distinguish the planets from the fixed stars, and call the former by particular names. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 All the planets appeared with round globular discs like the moon; whereas the fixed stars never exhibited any disc at all, but resembled lucid points sending forth twinkling rays. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler The sun, planets, and comets, which are assumed to form a system, independent of the surrounding fixed stars. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Let us look still further to one of the nearest fixed stars. Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall We have, however, had more than one occasion to show throughout the course of this work that the expression "fixed star" is not an accurate one when minute quantities are held in estimation. The Story of the Heavens Whitman never bothers to do that, he takes everything in the universe from fly-specks to the fixed stars. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Believing them to be fixed stars, he paid no great attention to their distances from Jupiter and from one another. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler The longitude calculated by observing the moon's angular distance from the sun or a fixed star. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The fixed stars being at such vast distances from one another, can neither attract each other sensibly nor be attracted by our sun. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science This striking spectacle proclaims in an unmistakable manner the unrivalled supremacy of this planet as compared with its fellow-planets and with the fixed stars. The Story of the Heavens There will also, of course, have to be a particular which is a member of any planet or fixed star that may happen to be visible from that place. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Other astronomers announced the discovery of new satellites: Scheiner reckoned five, Rheita nine, and others found even so many as twelve: these satellites, however, were found to be only fixed stars. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler The numerical expression of the apparent magnitudes of the so-called fixed stars. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Spectrum analysis shows us that on certain fixed stars there are forms of matter far different from matter as we know it on this planet. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers Care has to be taken that the clock which moves the camera shall keep pace most accurately with the rotation of the earth, so that fixed stars appear on the plate as sharp points. The Story of the Heavens Their names now shine in unapproachable splendour, far removed, like the fixed stars, from the clouds and the rivalry of a lower world. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 From the absence of parallax, he proved that the common hypothesis of its being a meteor was erroneous, and that, like the fixed stars, it was situated far beyond the bounds of our own system. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler The relative degrees of apparent size in which the fixed stars are arranged, and classed according to the intensity of their light. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. "The man," said he, "who discovers the cause of blight in an ear of corn, is a greater benefactor to the world than the man who discovers a new fixed star." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Suppose that in the course of its motion through the heavens the path of Saturn happened to cross directly between the earth and a fixed star. The Story of the Heavens It holds up an ideal almost unattainable for mortals, like the light of a fixed star which attracts us in spite of its unthinkable distance. Modern Saints and Seers He then directed it to the planets and the fixed stars, which he frequently observed with “incredible delight.” The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler Here again the miscalculation was perfectly natural in an age which regarded kings, nobles, and bishops as the fixed stars of a universe otherwise diversified only by a dim Milky Way. William Pitt and the Great War For a sea-comet, the Markerstown would be somewhat leisurely, though answering well for an oceanic fixed star, having no perceptible motion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 He then fixes his attention on one particular shooting star, and observes carefully its track with respect to the fixed stars in its vicinity. The Story of the Heavens Bradley, in his astronomical observations, noticed that some of the fixed stars, so called, did not appear to be really fixed, but that they described small circles in the heavens each year. Aether and Gravitation It twinkled strongly, and grew larger than Lyra or Sirius, or any other fixed star. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler Whether the other fixed stars have similar planetary companions or not is to us a matter of pure conjecture, which may or may not enter into our conception of the universe. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The Captain sat at the head of the table; next him was the fixed star Dūspeptos, with Satellite stationary on the right quarter. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 For example, the observation of the apparent movement of the sun, and the discrimination between the planets and the fixed stars, are both to be classed among the discoveries of prehistoric ages. The Story of the Heavens God Himself has no more imparted His name to mankind than the fixed stars and planets to which we have given names, although we only see, but do not hear or touch them. The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour It had no parallax, and was unquestionably situated in the region of the fixed stars. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler From the very brightness of the light of some of the fixed stars we may infer the intensity of that dark radiation, which is the precursor and inseparable associate of their luminous rays. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Meanwhile the somewhat quaint fixed star around which this whole system of planets, large and small, very really revolved, shone forth upon them all with a cheerful enough light. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The early astronomers had, moreover, learned to recognise the fixed stars. The Story of the Heavens But he who thinks those happy who are always scouring the country, and pass most of their lives in inns and ferryboats, is like a person who thinks the planets happier than fixed stars. Plutarch's Morals Along with this work he transmitted to the Emperor a copy of his MS. catalogue of 1000 fixed stars. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler As far off as the fixed stars he traces Him, 'distance inexpressible by numbers that have name.' Natural Law in the Spiritual World The faithful sunset-tinted face of Blackbird, immovable as a fixed star, regarded the battered cobbler as it might have regarded a great manitou when the island was young. The Cobbler In The Devil's Kitchen From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 To her inexperience, it looked as if Elsie Moss were very near the stage, as if another year might find her a fixed star in that firmament. Elsie Marley, Honey We might answer Mr. Seward's question with, "As many fixed stars as you please, but no more shooting stars with any consent of ours." The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays It had no parallax, and therefore was a fixed star. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler I suspect, myself, that the fixed stars are really fixed, and that the minute motions said to have been detected in them are illusions. The Book of the Damned The weight of authority is on the side of always using from, though A may differ with C from D in opinion with regard, say, to the size of the fixed stars. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. In this way substances are determined by what is called spectrum analysis, and it is by means of this instrument that the composition of the sun, and the planets and fixed stars are determined. Practical Mechanics for Boys Thus in the chapter on the fixed stars which passed down to Theophilus of Edessa and a Byzantine of the ninth century, from a pagan author who wrote at Rome in 379; cf. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism The observer who works on the front instrument keeps a cross hair on a fixed star. Giants on the Earth I think that the fixed stars are absolutes. The Book of the Damned Mill no doubt tells us he has no difficulty in supposing that in the region of the fixed stars two and two might make five, but nobody believes him. Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge This rifle is a heavy gun that carries a bullet large enough to jolt a fixed star and recoil enough to put one's starboard shoulder in the hospital for a day or so. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country Religious uranography placed the residence of the supreme divinity in the most elevated region of the world, fixing its abode in the zone most distant from the earth, above the planets and the fixed stars. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism We are so far away from the earth that even the fixed stars are unrecognizable. The Skylark of Space Here's another chance for me to become a fixed star—but as usual—oh, well— A point in Intermediatism: That the Intermediatist is likely to be a flaccid compromiser. The Book of the Damned And through their dim shine, the brilliant flares of the fixed stars burned clear and steady, so far away that even the hurling motion of the ship could not change their positions. The Colors of Space At the distance of the nearest fixed star our sun would shine as a star no brighter than Polaris which is presumably about the sun's size. A Field Book of the Stars A distinction was thus drawn between wandering stars or planets and fixed stars. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria I know enough about astronomy to recognize the fixed stars from any point within a light-year or so of the sun, and I can't see a single familiar star. The Skylark of Space After all, there is some inducement to that—and I'm not altogether sure it's desirable to end up as a fixed star. The Book of the Damned Simply by noting how far the moon is from some fixed star. The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen It is distinguished from the fixed stars by the steadiness of its light, which is dull and of a yellow hue, though to some it appears to be of a greenish tinge. A Field Book of the Stars Anu, Bel, and Ea represented the three most prominent fixed stars, but by the side of these a large number of other stars were distinguished and many of them identified with some deity. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria It sure would be disastrous to get out near one of the fixed stars and have our power quit. The Skylark of Space The OX line was taken pointing toward one of the brightest of the fixed stars that was in the plane of the elliptic. The Black Star Passes But how can we distinguish one of the fixed stars from the others? The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen If it is brighter than any of the fixed stars, and is some distance from the sun, it is doubtless the colossal Jupiter. A Field Book of the Stars When Mr. Cuyler had witnessed his local business, his pride and his life, the fixed star of his professional soul, begin slipping away, his gloom, as has been told, was not to be lifted. White Ashes The fixed stars which enamel and bespangle the concave expanse, or canopy of heaven, by numbers and lustre, make the night beauteous and delightful, which would otherwise be dark and horrible. A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses A standard for the measurement of the dimensions and distances of the fixed stars from ourselves is yet to be found; and, if ever found, will be through the means of astronomical observation. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. "They show the course of the moon through the heavens, and in order to get the position, the mariner measures the degrees between the moon and the nearest fixed star." The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen The fixed stars, however, twinkle, while Mars glows steadily. A Field Book of the Stars Why are fixed stars like pen, ink and paper? The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference And that fixed star in the pianistic firmament, one who refuses to descend to earth and please the groundlings—Rafael Joseffy—is for me the most satisfying of all the pianists. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Galileo, Newton, La Place, Herschel,—these are the royal names, the fixed stars, set, as it were, in that very firmament which for so many years they searched with telescopic eye. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Sirius is easily distinguished, because it is, apparently, the largest of all the fixed stars. The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen Were the Eternal Being to slacken the course of a planet, or increase even the distance of the fixed stars, the decree would be soon known on earth. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Al-Battani approached much nearer to the truth than the ancients as far as the movements of the fixed stars are concerned. Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature But the excessive remoteness of the sun from the nearest fixed star suggests that the constitution of the stellar universe is such that an accident of this kind is extremely improbable. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles Would give any information about the fixed stars. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Now, if you can imagine the moon making a silver streak along the heavens, it would pass along such a route that the following fixed stars would be in its path. The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen Has each of the planets and fixed stars a great "soul of the world" as well as this earth, and are they looking down intelligently and compassionately on the little globe of ours? Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Feasts fixed by risings, settings, conjunction of the fixed stars, 464-u. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Amid such a galaxy of brilliant constellations, Henry Bell graduated for a literary career, and he was not esteemed the least of the parhelions that shone around the fixed stars in that spacious intellectual firmament. Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities He spoke also of the fixed stars, which seem by the aid of a telescope to be innumerable. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 "Each fixed star is set in the heavens with certain others stars arranged about it in such a way that it cannot be mistaken." The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen The fixed stars are self-luminous bodies, similar to our sun, only immensely distant from us. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity They invoked the Stars and the Intelligences which inhabited them, offered them sacrifices, and called the fixed stars and planets gods. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry We might as well try to give the distance of the fixed stars in inches. What is Darwinism? Measure off the abysmal space into seven hundred thousand stages each a hundred million miles wide, and you reach the nearest fixed stars, for instance, the constellation of the Lyre. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The fixed stars he still regarded as being hung against the firmament, and that this firmament was turned in some mysterious way, en masse. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Yet, the sun is the nearest of the fixed stars, and by far the best known, and most nearly related to us. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity "Why are pens, ink, and paper like the fixed stars?" Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside The sixth book is on the determination of latitude and longitude from the fixed stars. The Age of the Reformation It is difficult to take seriously the suggestion that these domestic phenomena on the earth are due to the influence of the fixed stars. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Others had seen it, too, but had classified it as "a vagrant fixed star." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists The parallax of the nearest star is only one second, the whole lenticular mass of light which surrounds our sun would therefore only subtend an angle of a single second at the nearest fixed star. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence These earthly godfathers of heaven's light, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays There were seven planets and the sun, and three thousand fixed stars. The Sky Is Falling A tingling noise like the sound of bells was in my ears, and for a moment the whole universe seemed to have but one real fixed star—the fair, pale face before me. Dr. Dumany's Wife It was the work of Herschel to discover that it was not a fixed star, but had a defined and distinct orbit that could be calculated. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists And now we know all about the fixed stars. Our Unitarian Gospel Having learned the constellations, the student may well proceed to find the several planets, and to trace them in their apparent path across the fixed stars. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography They are fixed stars, which means they move with the sky. The Sky Is Falling Wisdom united to love is like the abiding light of the sun and like a fixed star. Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence No fixed star can for an instant bear comparison with her. Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries We know how Comte, the famous French scientist, advised his followers not to attempt to find out anything about the fixed stars, because, he said, such knowledge was forever beyond the reach of man. Our Unitarian Gospel They noted the fact that the planets wandered in a ceaseless way across the heavens, while the fixed stars showed little trace of changing position in relation to one another. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography And through the convalescing days Cameron had his place, like a fixed star. The Shield of Silence He shone as a fixed star, with his own lustre. The Butterfly House Again, there is a passage in the Rig-Veda, in which it is said, "Where do the fixed stars of heaven which we see by night go by day?" Myth and Science An Essay One of these is the sphere of the fixed stars; the other seven, which may be called the seven heavens, are the spheres of the planets. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition For a long time it was believed that these, as well as the remoter fixed stars, revolved about the earth. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography I hope many of my young readers have already found out for themselves that these intrusive bodies have been wandering among our fixed stars. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 No 1, Nov 1877 The superior pieces are likened to the moving stars; and the pawns, which have only one movement, to the fixed stars. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 Now under Smith's eye all courage to hold the unrealised ideal was lost; as the fixed stars twinkle, so her faith went out for the moment of his interrogation. The Mormon Prophet Will it not be something incomparably less than a physical point, since our earth is as a point in comparison with the distance of some fixed stars? Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil The revelations of the telescope show us certain features in the constitution and movements of the fixed stars which now demand our attention. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute. Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh It is a curious circumstance, that this planet was seen thirty years ago by Mayer, and supposed by him to be a fixed star. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 The general opinion is that the nebulæ are removed far beyond the fixed stars. Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. Constellation, a cluster of fixed stars; an assemblage of stars. A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. Many of the fixed stars, the incomplete list of which now amounts to several hundred, are curiously variable in the amount of light which they send out to the earth. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography The Half-and-Half was one of those early Victorian halls of the people, with fixed stars and only a few meteors. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes That of 1781 contains De la Caillie's catalogue of fixed stars reduced to the commencement of that year, and a table of the aberrations and nutations of the principal stars. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 A proper motion in space of our sun, and of the fixed stars as we call them, has long been believed to exist. The Uses of Astronomy An Oration Delivered at Albany on the 28th of July, 1856 They accomplished a catalogue of the fixed stars, of which the Greeks made use in compiling their stellar tables. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. These spheres were conceived to be one above the other; the planets were on the lower of them, and the fixed stars on the higher, the several crystal roofs revolving about the earth. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography And in the other life truths are represented by fixed stars, but falsities by wandering stars, no. Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There Its slow motion among the fixed stars makes it participate in that daily change which is common to them, hence the planet may be observed in the same place a few minutes earlier every night. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827 We say in vain because no single fixed star has, we believe, ever been made by aid of the telescope to show a disc. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World With these five they were soon led to class the Moon, which was easily observed to be a wandering luminary, changing her place among the fixed stars with remarkable rapidity. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. The first important observational work done by the ancients led them to perceive that there was a very characteristic difference between the planets and the fixed stars. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography He also came in sight, and he appeared as a dark cloud, in which were wandering stars; wandering stars signify falsities, but fixed stars signify truths. Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There There is no doubt that, during the next half century, much time and energy will be devoted to the study of the fixed stars. The Future of Astronomy They sparkle everywhere as the so-called fixed stars. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World But to do this, to mark out with accuracy the courses of the Sun and Moon among the fixed stars, it was necessary, or at least convenient, to arrange the stars themselves into groups. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. On the margin of the solar system the sun would appear shrunken to the state where it was hardly greater than the more brilliant of the other fixed stars. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Its spectrum was like some of the fixed stars. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work A temperamental man, a finely organized, highly gifted, sensitive, and intellectual man needs just such affection as yours, as unshakable as the sun, as faithful as the fixed stars. A Woman Named Smith Turning to a given fixed star, it shows that the tremendous combustion going on therein is virtually the same as that in our own sun. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World Moreover, the moon, forever waxing, waning, or presenting almost stupidly its great flat face, is continually changing; but the fixed star is always there. John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) Southern California; Grand Canon of the Colorado River; Yellowstone National Park We grovel in view of the vast distances of the fixed stars and their magnitudes, but these distances and these dimensions are a delusion. Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers Our sun's authority extends at least half-way to the nearest fixed star, one hundred thousand times farther than the orbit of the earth. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Parallaxes of fixed stars, 88, 89; of the solar system, 145, 146. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 On turning the telescope to a fixed star, its brightness, its brilliancy, increases according to the power of the instrument. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World Venizelos was, so to say, a fixed star in the firmament, and his light burned bright through every rift in the clouds. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference A few of the larger fixed stars twinkled palely in the sky, but the smaller ones were drowned in the full moonlight. The Doctor's Dilemma They could not, therefore, have assigned particular shapes to these shifting groups of fixed stars with reference to the divisions of the Zodiac. Five Years of Theosophy The comparison of the volume of the Sun with that of the fixed stars of the first magnitude is dependent upon the apparent diameter of the latter bodies — an extremely undertain optical element. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 The study of the heavens at this epoch began to reach out from the planetary system to the fixed stars. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World But all is not for all; 'tis far From flaming meteor to fixed star, From notoriety to fame. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 5, 1891 Nor can I do more at present than make a passing reference to the excellent labours of Dr. Huggins in connexion with the fixed stars, nebulae, and comets. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 Very likely the fixed stars are nothing but grey-beards with no imagination. Romance Island Several tails inclined toward the sun; change of form of fixed stars by the nuclei of comets. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 By night the stars shine, and there is no fathoming the dark spaces between those brilliant points, nor the thoughts that come as it were between the fixed stars and landmarks of the mind. The Amateur Poacher But a moment since, he was among us: now, the fixed stars are not more remote than he. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Kirchhoff saw that from the agreement of the lines in the spectra of terrestrial substances with Fraunhofer's lines, the presence of these substances in the sun and fixed stars might be immediately inferred. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 "Why not say the fixed stars when you are about it?" A Trip to Venus They have no certain harbour in view, nor direct their course by any fixed star. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy As the sailors drive the ship toward the false beacon, near them and garish and flaring, so he thought the erratic orb brighter than the serene fixed star. The Son of Clemenceau He's shone upon them like a fixed star. The Conqueror This is found upon experience to save much time and labour, to correct many irregular motions, and is better suited to the respect due from a planet to a fixed star. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer And they know that even the great fixed stars, those distant suns and centers of great solar systems akin to our own, have their own places in the Universe, also their Universal relations and movements. Mystic Christianity Improved instruments have detected the parallax of a number of the fixed stars, and traced motion in both solar and stellar systems as units. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 He charms me, and has become a fixed star in the heaven of my thought; but I understand all that he excites perfectly. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Hence the stars in the Heaven of the fixed stars are more full of power amongst themselves in proportion as they are nearer to that circle. The Banquet (Il Convito) He looked up at the sky, pointing to and naming several of the fixed stars. The Young Engineers in Mexico Or, Fighting the Mine Swindlers What can there be to make us shudder in a fixed star? The Man Who Laughs As far, then, as we have yet gone, it cannot be said that our vision is felt or known to be distanced from the fixed stars even by the diameter of a grain of sand. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 Steam whistles pitched a tune beyond the fixed stars. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient The shortest, being the point at the other end of the quadrant, thus corresponded to the fixed stars or zero force; intermediate ones were to be found proportional to the “forces” of the six planets. Kepler Hipparchus, ancient astronomer, born at Nicæa; flourished in the 2nd century B.C.; discovered among other things the precession of the equinoxes, determined the place of the equinox, and catalogued 1000 fixed stars. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge It is older, it is earlier in existence than the earliest star that shone in heaven; and it will outlive the fixed stars that now in heaven seem fixed forever. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 The moon, as we saw, stealthily glides among the fixed stars, gaining her own width every hour. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque But tell me, about how large is the whole world in general, counting fixed stars, milky ways, hoods of mist, and all that? The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes No fixed star, great or small, in the firmament of literature ever got there without some vital reason, or merely by writing, however remarkable. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Rather we must try to explain ourselves by the blaze of such fixed stars. All Things Considered From this "top" the poet ascends through the seven planetary heavens, the fixed stars, and the "primum mobile" to the empyre'an or seat of God. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook The blue hills of the offing, the nearer pine grove, and even the ranch-house itself were fixed stars, far away and sending merely faint suggestions of their splendors to his not very bright eyes. Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac The fixed stars are suns, and, like our own, surrounded by planets. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Their spectral shapes shall sink at last Below the night's abandoned waves; Rest not confined by shoals and bars; Steer oceanward by God's fixed stars! Poems It gives her a fixed star to steer by. Alexander's Bridge The religion of the Arabs, as well as of the Indians, consisted in the worship of the sun, the moon, and the fixed stars; a primitive and specious mode of superstition. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 And yet what is that compared with the distance of the fixed stars, some of which, such as Arcturus, are billions of miles distant from us? From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon We launch ourselves in conceit into illimitable space, and take up our rest beyond the fixed stars. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author Many of the elements with which we are familiar, as hydrogen, carbon, iron, gold, etc., have been recognized, by means of spectrum analysis, in the sun and the fixed stars. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section D and E The planets, the sun, the fixed stars, all belong to one species—namely, that of stars. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Moreover, a man with a definite belief always appears bizarre, because he does not change with the world; he has climbed into a fixed star, and the earth whizzes below him like a zoetrope. Heretics They were not phlegmatic: a continuing spark glowed far within them, not ardently, but steadily and inscrutably, like the fixed stars in winter. The Flirt The immense distance of the fixed stars from our earth, and from each other, is of all considerations the most proper for raising our ideas of the works of God. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author The laundry now loomed as a fixed star in Bud's firmament. Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley They also possessed lists of the fixed stars, and drew up tables of the times of their heliacal risings. The Babylonian Legends of the Creation The creator of the sun and the fixed stars, the milky way and the nebulae? The Bride of Dreams At last, wearied nature gave way, and he fell into a slumber, filled with dreams of planets, moons, comets, and fixed stars. Sanders' Union Fourth Reader We have no method for measuring angles, which can be applied to the fixed stars; and we know nothing of any revolutions they perform. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author Astronomy proper deals with the position of the earth in space and its relation to the other heavenly bodies, whether suns, fixed stars, planets, satellites, comets, or other bodies in the vast space about us. Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Although in both hemispheres there are in reality but 5000 fixed stars visible to the naked eye, their number appeared to the observers incalculable. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude Here it was that Humboldt saw apparent lateral shiftings and perpendicular oscillations of fixed stars; and our Admiralty, not wishing to be behind him, directed Professor P. Smyth's attention to 'scintillations in general.' To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I This was a great relief to me; I had been plagued watching the passage of the fixed stars, and often fell asleep when they were in the meridian. The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 My eyes have grown dim over books; believing in geological periods, cave-dwellers, Chinese Dynasties, and the fixed stars has prematurely aged me. Trivia This is the distance of the nearest fixed star, and is used as a standard of reference in describing greater depths of space. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 There could be no doubt that it was a body wholly dissimilar to the fixed stars, and it was equally certain that it could not be a nebula. Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 The absence of annual parallax further involves an incredible distance between the outermost planet and the fixed stars. History of Astronomy All the celestial signs together, with the constellations of the fixed stars, will jointly be at their devotion then. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 The rush of the great rotating Sun daunts us; to think to the distance of the fixed stars cracks our brain. Trivia The fixed stars have no general motion toward any point, but move in all directions. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Neither its special appearance nor its motion attracted attention, so that it was merely catalogued as an ordinary fixed star. Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 It was soon found that the planet had been observed, and its position recorded as a fixed star by Lalande, on May 8th and 10th, 1795. History of Astronomy Through the white curtains may be seen the gleam of an astral-lamp, like a fixed star. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. She had multitudes of acquaintances and these surrounding nebulæ condensed, here and there, into the fixed stars of friendship. A Fountain Sealed This discovery implies stupendous motion; every fixed star is a sun like our own, and we can imagine these wheeling orbs to be surrounded by cool planets, the abode of life, as well as ours. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 They were able to trace the course of the sun through the twelve constellations of the zodiac and to distinguish five of the planets from the fixed stars. Early European History After Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus, in 1781, it was found that astronomers had observed it on many previous occasions, mistaking it for a fixed star of the sixth or seventh magnitude. History of Astronomy Imagine what it would be to meet them in one of the planets; but if the meeting were to take place in the furthest fixed star the delight would be almost too much for us. Fan : the story of a young girl's life Outermost of all was the ethereal 'fire' which was divided into two spheres: first that of the fixed stars and next that of the planets. Guide to Stoicism If the density of these bodies could be ascertained, their diameters and volumes would be known, and the size of the fixed stars would have been measured. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 He believed that the earth was the center of the universe and that the sun, planets, and fixed stars all revolved around it. Early European History He wrote nothing, but is supposed to have said that the earth, moon, five planets, and fixed stars all revolve round the sun, which itself revolves round an imaginary central fire called the Antichthon. History of Astronomy When we regard the fixed star through a telescope and lose ourselves in contemplation, a little hair can conceal the mighty body, a grain of dust lead us from these sublime thoughts. O. T. a Danish Romance I am going from the country of the seven wandering stars, and I am going to the country of the fixed stars! The Hour Glass Indeed, the thermopile in the hands of Lockyer has already made palpable the heat of the fixed stars. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 A stranger appears, but has only the aspect of a fixed star. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States This upset every notion about the permanence of the fixed stars. History of Astronomy He was now in the region of the fixed stars. Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 When one gets quiet; then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars—not like the seven that move, but like the fixed stars. The Hour Glass It is found that many fixed stars are approaching, while others are moving away from the solar system. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 The first was brought to the field of view of the instrument, and pronounced to be a fixed star; and so with the second. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States From the bottom of the hollow boyau one could see the cold sky and the fixed stars. Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War Full instructions were also given to the two observers, and a list of the fixed stars to be observed was drawn up by Mr. Maskelyne. The Life of Captain James Cook There must be many more fixed stars than planets, then, for almost every star that I can see twinkles and sparkles like a diamond. De La Salle Fifth Reader Within twenty years, he startled intellectual man with the statement that many of the fixed stars actually move—one great sun revolving around another, and both rotating about their common center of gravity. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 They often outshine the fixed stars and are confounded with them by the inexperienced; but this only because they are near. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature Greatness doth not make him scornful and imperious, but rather like the fixed stars; the higher he is, the less he desires to seem. Character Writings of the 17th Century In this term I include the determination of the places of fixed stars which are necessary for ascertaining the instrumental errors applicable to the instrumental observations of the Moon. Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy These fixed stars are suns themselves, which may have planets of their own. De La Salle Fifth Reader And thus might the sun and fixed stars be formed, supposing the matter were of a lucid nature. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons Writers may be classified as meteors, planets and fixed stars. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature Man is not quite so manageable in the hands of science as boiling water or a fixed star. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 The scintillation so characteristic of the fixed stars, especially in the temperate climates of the Earth, was scarcely perceptible. Across the Zodiac "Those that twinkle are not planets; they are fixed stars," said Frank. De La Salle Fifth Reader From the stars I see in the firmament, the fixed stars that predominate in the configuration, I deduce the future destiny of man. Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul But a better astronomy recognized him as a fixed star, for he was unmistakable by that fitting Few whose verdict is both history and immortality. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 I had passed beyond the fixed stars and plunged into the huge blackness that waits beyond. The House on the Borderland He discovered that apparent motion of the fixed stars round the axis of the ecliptic, which is called the Precession of the Equinoxes, one of the greatest discoveries in astronomy. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. O, Philip! haven't you noticed that they are called fixed stars to show that they do not move like planets? De La Salle Fifth Reader In the beginnings of astronomy it was not known that the ``fixed stars'' had any motion independent of their apparent annual revolution with the whole sky about the earth as a seeming center. Curiosities of the Sky Year after year, not altering by one point, Their order, or their stations, those fixed stars In that revolving firmament. Watchers of the Sky Our party was not founded for a single mission, which accomplished, left it drifting with no fixed star of principle to guide it. Public Speaking But I soon discovered that the Young Fogey was one of that large class of persons who do not evolve but revolve, whose brilliancy is that of the fixed star. Without Prejudice That is to say, that light, travelling at a rate of about 182,000 miles in one second, takes four years to come from the nearest fixed star to the Earth. God and my Neighbour Now, however, we know that the term ``fixed stars'' is paradoxical, for there is not a single really fixed object in the whole celestial sphere. Curiosities of the Sky Even the fixed stars at first waver and coruscate, and require long seasons for their consummation and final settlement. Charles Lamb The next of the fixed stars and the brightest in all the heavens is that which we call Sirius or the Dog Star. Marvels of Modern Science I was reading the other day that it would take a fast train forty million years to get to the nearest fixed star. The Desired Woman But I have seen the distance from the Earth to the Great Nebula in Orion given as a thousand light years, or 250 times the distance of the fixed star above alluded to. God and my Neighbour |
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