10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VISIBLE HORIZON»
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Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport
The stress on their bodies reaches ten times the force of gravity, but this is nothing compared to the strain on their minds and the tension in their souls. In a bad year no sport kills more of its participants.
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Elements of astronomy ...: with explanatory notes, and ...
CHAPTER II. THE HORIZON. 36. Horizon is an astronomical term derived from
the Greek word orizon signifying boundary, and of these boundaries there are
two. Sensible Horizon. The first is the sensible or visible horizon, of which we
have ...
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The Ever-Changing Sky: A Guide to the Celestial Sphere
The visible horizon, where the sky seems to meet the land, may be formed by
hills that lie well above the astronomical horizon. In calculating local sunset times
, azimuths, and visibilities, local topography must be taken into account. Only
when ...
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The Edinburgh encyclopædia conducted by David Brewster, with ...
A spectator placed on any part of the earth, sees around bim a certain limited
portion of its surface, which is called the visible horizon of that place. The point of
the horizon which lies in the same direction with the sun when on the meridian, ...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany
A spectator, placed on any part of the earth's surface, sees around him a certain
limited portion of its surface, and this portion is called the visible horizon of that
place. If the spectator advances twenty or thirty miles from his first position, in any
...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new ...
A spectator, placed on any part of the earth's surface, sees around him a certain
limited portion of its surface, and this portion is called the visible horizon of that
place. If the spectator advances twenty or thirty miles from his first position, in any
...
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Comparative Studies in Phenomenology
First, it seems that what Husserl calls "background" would seem to coincide with
an object's visible horizon. Secondly, even though it seems as if 'horizon' refers to
collections of objects or to a part of an object, this is not what Husserl means.
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Dutton's Nautical Navigation
The celestial horizon is parallel to the plane of the observer's visible horizon at
sea. The visible horizon (also called the sea horizon and, ZENlTH ZENlTH
NADlR^/ \ Fig. 2008a. Zenith, nadir, and celestial horizon. Fig. 2008b. Altitude
measured ...
Benjamin Dutton, Thomas J. Cutler, 2004
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From China to Paris: 2000 Years Transmission of Mathematical ...
The treatise is about the determination of the visible horizon, a geometrical
problem mentioned in two letters by Ghiyath al-D!n JamshTd al-KashT (ca. 826/
1422) to his father. I discuss the history of this problem and I show as well that the
short ...
Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, 2002
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or, a Dictionary of Arts, ...
Kg. 14. the diameter os the earth being so extremely small, in comparison to the
distance of the sun, as to subtend an angle at any point of his body of but 20 or 2
2 seconds at most; ; and the diameter of our visible horizon being extremely ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VISIBLE HORIZON»
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Subtle Explorations of Line in SFAC's 'Visible Horizons'
For Visible Horizons, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery invited three local artists to create new work interpreting the 'line' that divides earth from sky. «KQED, Aug 12»
