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substances which produce contraction and condensation of the muscular fiber: for instance, when MT. WILSON OBSERVATORY, MT. WILSON, CALIFORNIA. THE 100-FOOT DOME, VIEWED FROM THE 150-FOOT TOWER Enc. Vol. 1- p. 3 Mt. Wilson Observatory RC DESCRIBED BY SUM, DEC 2350 NOME, ALASKA EXPOSURES, 10 AM TO 2 P.M., AT HALF HOUR INTERYN International Film Service THE ARC DESCRIBED BY THE SUN ABOVE THE HORIZON AT NOME, ALASKA, ON THE SHORTEST DAY OF THE YEAR, DECEMBER 23, 1919. THE FIRST EXPOSURE WAS MADE AT SUNRISE, 10 A. M., AND THE LAST AT SUNSET, 2 P. M. THE OTHER EXPOSURES WERE MADE AT HALF-HOUR INTERVALS DURING THE DAY 23, 1919. THE FIRST EXPOSURE WAS MADE AT SUNRISE, 10 A. M., AND THE LAST AT SUNSET, 2 P. M. THE OTHER EXPOSURES WERE MADE AT HALF-HOUR INTERVALS DURING THE DAY Mt. Wilson Observatory NORTH AND SOUTH SUN SPOTS, SEPTEMBER 9, 1908 Mt. Wilson Observatory NORTHERN PART OF THE MOON, AT LAST QUARTER. NIGHT IS ADVANCING FROM THE LEFT. THE DARK OVAL PLAIN, SURROUNDED BY A BRIGHT WALL, IS "PLATO." THE MOUNTAINS ABOVE AND TO THE LEFT OF "PLATO" ARE THE "LUNAR ALPS." THE LONGER RANGE, EXTENDING ACROSS THE UPPER LEFT-HAND PART OF THE VIEW, ARE THE "LUNAR APENNINES" Mt. Wilson Observatory THE BROKEN ROW OF YAWNING BLACK HOLES ALONG THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE MOON, AT LAST QUARTER. NIGHT ADVANCES FROM THE LEFT.
TERMINATOR BETWEEN DAY AND NIGHT INCLUDE, TOGETHER WITH THE SECOND ROW TO THE RIGHT, WHOSE BOTTOMS ARE STILL IN THE SUNLIGHT, THE GRANDEST "RING PLAINS" AND "CRATER MOUNTAINS" ON THE MOON. THE LARGE SMOOTH ONE AT THE BOTTOM IS "PTOLEMAEUS" Mt. Wilson Observatory STAR CLUSTER M 22. SAGITTARII, AUGUST 6 Mt. Wilson Observatory IRREGULAR NEBULA M 17. SAGITTARII (OMEGA), JULY 29, 1919 Yerkes Observatory MOREHOUSE'S COMET Mt. Wilson Cbservatory THE PLANET SATURN Underwood & Underwood TRANSMITTING CLOCKS FOR TIME SIGNALS, NAVAL OBSERVATORY, WASHINGTON, D. C. orrhage.
The contraction thus pro- contract the tissues as to stop the heman ordinary stimulant, and from that duced is different from that effected by caused by the administration of a tonic. orrhage. duced is different from that effected by The contraction thus proan ordinary stimulant, and from that caused by the administration of a tonic. nition which would include not merely any instrument for taking the altitude of a star or other heavenly body, a defiequatorial, the altitude and the azimuth the astrolabe, properly so called, but also the sextant, the quadrant, the equatorial, the altitude and the azimuth circle, the theodolite, or any similar instrument. the 2d or 3d century B. C. astronomers at least from the early part of the 2d century A. D., if not even from the 2d or 3d century B. C. true science of astronomy; now the concerning the stars; subsequently the true science of astronomy; now the tion of the stars, and ascertaining their tell future events by studying the position of the stars, and ascertaining their changes in the weather from studying the stars and judicial or judiciary aschanges in the weather from studying the stars and judicial or judiciary asthe race of mankind generally. destiny of individual human beings or the race of mankind generally. deans, the Romans, and most other andeans, the Romans, and most other ancient nations, with the honorable exception of the Greeks, became implicit because and partly the effect of the prevcause and partly the effect of the prevalent worship ship of the h The later Jews, the Arabs, with other heavenly bodies.
Mohammedan races, and the Christians in medieval Europe, were all great cultivators of astrology. The ordinary method of procedure in the Middle Ages into 12 portions by circles running from was to divide a globe or a planisphere into 12 portions by circles running from pole to pole, like those which now mark meridians of longitude. Each of the 12 spaces or intervals between these circles was called a "house" of heaven.
The sun, the moon, and the stars all pass once in 24 hours through the portion of heavens represented by the 12 "houses"; nowhere, however, except at the equator, are the same stars uniformly together in the same house. Every house has one of the heavenly bodies ly together in the same house. Every ruling over it as its lord.
The houses symbolize different advantages or disadvantages. The first The houses symbolize different adis the house of life; the second, of riches; the third, of brethren; the fourth, of parents; the fifth, of children; the sixth, the eighth, of death; the ninth, of reli- of health; the seventh, of marriage; ASTRONOMY enemies. The houses vary in strength, enth, of friends; and the twelfth, of the first one, that containing the part of enemies. The houses vary in strength, the heavens about to rise, being the most powerful of all; it is called the what house and star was in the ascendtic just rising is termed the horoscope. The important matter was to ascertain what house and star was in the ascendant at the moment of a person's birth, The important matter was to ascertain from which it was deemed possible to augur his fortune. Astrology still flourishes in Asia and Africa. of all the heavenly bodies, including the earth, as related to them. It is the oldtics, geodesy and physics. est of the sciences, and the mother of those generally called exact mathema-