. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. e peculiar effect of thesuns heat upon men and animals known aa * sun-stroke. Crescent of the I*f oon—The moons appear-ance wlien new or in t
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. e peculiar effect of thesuns heat upon men and animals known aa * sun-stroke. Crescent of the I*f oon—The moons appear-ance wlien new or in the last cpiarter. Cytrniis (the Swan)—A rennxrkahle constella-tion, composed, according to different estimates,of eighty-one or one hundred and seven stars,situated in the Milky Way, directly east of theLyre, and nearly on the same meridian as theDolphin; the principal stars that nuirk the wings,the bill and the body of the Swan form a largeand regular cross; it has but one star of the firstmagnitude. Days and Xlghts—The unequal lengths ofthe days and nights are occasioned by the annualrevolution of the earth around the sun, with itsaxis inclined to the plane of its orbit; the contin-uance of the sun above the horizon of any placedepends entirely u))on his declination or altitudeat noon; at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes,March 21 and September 23, he has no declination,;iiii till- ,l;tv- :iii! niuhf- ??<y rfvn -l --|(f.[ l-TVJ-th-. Fig. 7--The Great Comet of 1843, The t;iil uf which was i;(1(1 miles in length. and the suns declination or obliquity betweenthese two dates regulates the seasons, pro-ducing spring and summer on one side of theequator, and autumn and winter on the oppositeside. An astronomical day is rated from noon ofone day to the noon of the next; a civil day isreckoned from sunrise to sunrise, or sunset tosunset. Bepression—The distance of a star from thehorizon below it; depression of the pole issaid of a pei3on sailing from either pole to
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