The Book of Stars: Being a Simple Explanation of the Stars and Their Uses to Boy LifeCollins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)
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The Book of Stars: Being a Simple Explanation of the Stars and Their Uses to Boy Life
Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature; Stars -- Juvenile literature
=Rise.= To come into sight above the horizon, as
the Moon rises.
=Rotate.= To turn completely round on an axis like
a top or the Earth.
=Rotary.= Turning completely round on an axis,
like a top or the Earth.
=Roughly.= Not exactly; nearly enough for
practical purposes.
=Schedule.= (1) A tabulated statement giving items
concerning a subject. (2) A timetable of any kind.
=Seeing.= To look at. The word _seeing_
in starcraft means to observe the stars. _Good
seeing_ is to observe the stars when the
atmosphere is perfectly clear.
=Seems.= Something which apparently is true and
yet is not necessarily true.
=Sensation.= The action of one of the senses when
excited by some change in matter. Light falling on
the retina of the eye produces the sensation of
light and color in the brain.
=Set.= To sink from sight below the horizon; as
the Sun sets.
=Sight.= The power to see. See Sighting.
=Sighting.= To get the eye and two other objects,
such as a telescope and a star, in a line, as to
sight Jupiter with a telescope.
=Sign.= A mark, figure or letter which astronomers
have agreed to use to represent certain stars,
aspects of stars, parts of the zodiac, etc.
=Solar.= That which is of, or has to do with the
Sun.
=Spring stars.= The stars which can be seen best
during the spring months.
=Star chart.= A map of the positions of the stars.
=Starcraft.= Useful knowledge of the stars. Skill
shown in making the stars serve useful purposes.
=Star finder.= A device of any kind which will
enable an unskilled person to find the planets or
constellations.
=Star-lore.= Learning concerning the mythology of
the stars.
=Summer stars.= The stars which can best be seen
during the summer months.
=Supposition.= See Idea.
=Tangent.= See Appendix B.
=Tangent line.= See Appendix B.
=Telegraph code.= The alphabet of dots and dashes.
=Test.= To try out. To examine, compare or make an
experiment which will give a needed proof.
=Theory.= See Idea.
=Thumb tack.= A short, thin, sharp-pointed tack
with a large flat head which permits it to be easily
pushed into a board with the thumb. It is used by
draftsmen for fastening paper to drawing boards.
=Tilting.= Leaning from a vertical or plumb
line. The axis of the Earth is tilted from the
perpendicular 23½ degrees; this throws its equator
out of plane with that of the sun, and the circle
through the Earth that is in plane with the Sun is
called the ecliptic.
=Transparent.= Said of any substance through which
light can pass easily. Anything that may be seen
through.
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