hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1864., [Electronic resource] 14 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1864., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country 4 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight). You can also browse the collection for Orion or search for Orion in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
nditions of the construction, and immediately completed a telescope at Padua for his own use. He directed it first to the mountains of the moon, and showed the method of measuring their hights; attributing, like Leonardo da Vinci and Mostlin, the ashy-colored light of the moon to the light of the sun reflected back upon her from the earth. He examined with small magnifying powers the group of the Pleiades, the cluster of stars in Cancer, the Milky Way, and the group of stars in the head of Orion. Then followed in quick succession the great discoveries of the four satellites of Jupiter, the two handles of Saturn, — or his surrounding ring imperfectly seen, so that its true character was not at first recognized, — the solar spots, and the crescent form of Venus. As early as November, 1610, Galileo wrote to Kepler that Saturn consists of three heavenly bodies in contact with each other. In this observation there was the germ of the discovery of Saturn's ring. Hevelius described,