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EIGHT LECTURES-
AND OF AN
INTRODUCTORY LEC
Which
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will
be delivered
WASHINGTON.
BY MR, GOODACRE,
FROiM ENGLAND.
WASHINGTON
"TED BY
CITY.
1824.
INTRODUCTORY LECTURE,
Saturday, January
*J? ^
24, 1824.
tion
to
of the
The whole
each
years
Doors open
and end
at
at half past
Six o'Clock
each Lecture
fifty
cents.
Nine.
Should Subscribers
tending, Tickets to the
Course be prevented from regularly atamount of two, but no more, will be exchanged
to the
Washington, January
21, 1824
ASTRONOMICAL LECTURES.
INSTRUMENTS
BY WHICH
1.
upwards of
fifty
all
containing
veries.
2.
SAREON,
and ECLIP-
signs
its
with de-
circumference
thirty -feet.
4.
splendid
TRANSPARENT ORRERY,
6 and 7.
Two
and
elegant
TRANSPARENT PLANISPHERES
of
Plan of a
UNIVERSAL SYSTEM;
INSTRUMENTS
GRAMS, amounting in
or
SYSTEM
of
SOLAR
in circumference.
number
to nearly forty.
The whole of this APPARATUS has been constructed at great expense, either
by the Lecturer, or under his immediate inspection, and it is esteemed by competent judges better calculated to elucidate this sublime science than any yet exb>
bited to the Public.
LECTURE
I.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
nently calculated to give
his
man
own mind.
All
These
A COURSE OF
Sidereal Revolution Of
Terrestrial
Length of
General Remarks and conjectures respecting the matcomposed
Mercury His
of which the Sun
mean apparent Diameter Greatest apparent DiameReal Diameter SurfaceSolidity Proportion of
of the EarthEccentricity of
OrBulk
Distance from the SunProportion of Light comEarth Hourly motion Time of
Repared with
Axis Number of
volution Rotation on
complete passage through
Orbit
during
Orbit Place of
Axis
ascending
nation of
Orbit
the Ecliptic Place
Node Inclination of
Perihelion General Remarks and Conjectures.
of
&c. See Mercury
Venus Diameter, Distance,
The Earth,
General Remarks and Conjectures
particulars
Mercury
same
(More minute
nearly
parts
many
of
the
Course)
Mars,
information
General
Remarks
Curious
Spots
Elements
Sun
ments
in the Centre
his
his
his
is
ter
ter
to that
his
his
bit
the
his
his
rotations
his
his
his
to his
Incli-
his
his
to
his
Orbit,
as
the
in
as before
circumstanced in respect to each other Good situations for Astronomical views of the Solar System
General RemarksHis
ShapeBelts Attendant Moons Varied
views of Saturn from Jupiter: Excellent situation
Saturn, Elements as before
observing transits
General Remarks Attendant Moons and Ring
Uranus, the Georgium Sidus, or Herschel, Elements
(far as known) as before General Remarks Atten-
Seasons
for
LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY.
lar
all
->
System
Reflections.
to
ferent Planets
,-
Size of the
Sun
Figure
LECTURE
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
II.
The Study
of Astronomy cal-
Man
in
Divine
Revelation.
its
general outline of
tures)
Time
(to
be
filled
up
in future
Lec-
is
still
are present.
Secondly,
to be discussed pre-
up while others
necessary-
A COURSE OF
making
devices for
these observations
Directions
The
line of
these
Instruments used :
the
Large Globe ;
Moon ; Laws
ofJ\atter
and JMotion.
LECTURE
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
surest basis of Geographical
III.
Astronomical knowledge,
tile
gram.
Collateral
its
Axis,
How
observations
to transfer observations
made
on the Globe or Tellurian to appearances in the Heavens ...... The Globe of the Earth in Climates Length
of Days in each Cause of their variety Polar Days
Theory of Polar Sunshine and Polar Moonlight Cause
Glance
of greater Heat in Summer than in Winter
Their singular variety and raat the Days in Venus
pid change
differ
the
the Planets;
Tellurian; the
Large Globes
Telescopic appearances of
LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY.
LECTURE
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
may be
lodge
IV.
Useful Astronomical
Know-
Study.
Great
difficulties in
cal,
this
&.
1.
extent Different
in
England
Heavens
vault of Heaven into
different
Latitudes
The
Starry
The
three Regions
The
visible
this
Remarks on
this
Concave
visible in
our Lati-
tude
Star
in the year
Hypothesis
Directions
line of the
Precession
Phenomenon
Its
North Polar
Zodiac
and
the
of Twilight.
A COURSE OF
LECTURE
V.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
lar
Motions
to
Solstice,
at
in
at each
Quadrature:The same
Equinoxes
Winter
at the
Solstice
Irregular motions
Her Libration
Their important
and Latitude Her unequal Motion in
Longitude Lunations unequal, and quarters of Lunations unequal Time of Moon's appearance each evening irregularHarvest Moon Different years more
or
favourable
the Harvest Moon Cause of these
and waxing
PhenomenaWaning Limb of the
of the
Moon
effects
in Longitude
less
to
old,
ed with
its
March
Cause of difference
the Moon inhabited Various opinions of Astrono-
this
Planisphere
Large
'<
-..
LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY.
LECTURE
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
VI.
Eclipses Theory of
Total Eclipses of the Sun Annular Eclipses Partial Eclipses The same Eclipses of the Moon
Digits Eclipsed Umbra and Penumbra
The
Tides of the Ocean Their various Phenomena explained on the Newtonian Theory On the new Theory of
Captain Foreman Remarks on the
theories
Eclipses
different
of the Tides.
Tides,
LECTURE
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
ledge
may be
devices.
VII.
Useful
Astronomical Know-
Motions of
respective
Primaries
Parallelism
Ring
Parallax
Methods of
of
Saturn's
finding
the
Heliocentric
retrograde Motion
Obliquity of #ie
LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY.
Ecliptic varying
and diminishing
Cause of
this
Phe-
nomenon.
Instruments used: Apparatus for showing the Eclipses of Juand the Parallelism of Saturn's Ring; the large
piter's Satellites
Diagrams:
LECTURE
INTRODUCTORY REM \ RKS.
lated to strengthen
VIH.
The
Advance
Earth's axis
Cause of
Picture
this
Starry Heavens
of the Perihe-
Nutation of the
The
Phenomenon
System
Conclusion.
Diagrams:
the Earth's
library of congress
iiihi
Mil
IN.