Astronomical

Examples

• I am pleased with the late astronomical discoveries made by our society. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• It may have been cooling slowly, but, speaking upon the scale of things astronomical, it has certainly not cooled very much. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The philosophical mind of Thales laid hold, no doubt, of some of the essentials of astronomical science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• By means of this method one high-class clock, usually in an astronomical observatory, compels a number of other clocks at considerable distances to keep time with it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is designed for taking observations of heavenly bodies and recording mechanically the parts of the astronomical triangle used in navigation and like work. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These friends, like astronomical distances, are only to be spoken of in the very largest figures. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Th us we see that the usage of making seven days a unit of time depends on the religious belief and astronomical science of a very remote civilization. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Gascoigne's determinations of, for example, the diameter of the sun, bear comparison with the findings o f even recent astronomical science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Mathematical or astronomical, physiographic, topographic, political, commercial, geography, all make their claims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Their astronomical ideas were still in the state of rudimentary speculations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We place it, as we say, in the astronomical system. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They built several observatories, and constructed many astronomical instruments which are still in use. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Under the incessant slow variations of these astronomical, telluric, and geographical influences life has no rest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• About 2300 B..they had multiplication tables running from 1 to 1350, which were probably used in connection with astronomical calculations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I saw his astronomical instruments put to strange uses, his globes defaced, his papers covered with abstruse calculations destroyed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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