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Astronomical Observations relative to the Lunar Mountains. Phil. Trans., vol. lxxi. Astronomical Observations on the Rotation of the Planets on their Axes, made with a View to decide whether the Daily Rotation of the Earth be always the same. On the Comet of 1781, afterwards called the Georgium Sidus. Phil. Trans., vol. lxxii. On the Parallax of the Fixed Stars. Catalogue of Double Stars.
But ere he has been in his hammock an hour, he is awakened by Cary's coming down to ask for orders. "We were to follow Drake's lantern, Amyas; but where it is, I can't see, unless he has been taken up aloft there among the stars for a new Drakium Sidus."
I described a new tabanus, horsefly, you know, which, I think, had escaped notice. I felt as grand when I showed up my new discovery as if I had created the beast. I don't doubt Herschel felt as if he had made a planet when he first showed the astronomers Georgium Sidus, as he called it. And that reminds me of something.
In that way the inhabitants of the Georgium Sidus are already sufficiently provided for; they appear to have as little benefit of the light as of the heat of the sun. How the satellites of the distant planets are supplied with light is a mystery, since their principals have scarcely any.
Description of a Lamp Micrometer, and the Method of using it. Answers to the Doubts that might be raised to the high magnifying Powers used by Herschel. Phil. Trans., vol. lxxiii. Letter to Sir Joseph Banks on the Name to be given to the new Planet. On the Diameter of the Georgium Sidus, followed by the Description of a Micrometer with luminous or dark Disks.
Herschel suggested calling it Georgius Sidus, in honour of George III., then King; but luckily this ponderous name was not adopted, and as the other planets had been called after the Olympian deities, and Uranus was the father of Saturn, it was called Uranus.
Meredith manages, with consummate cleverness no doubt, to colour his whole representation of character and story in the same extra-natural way. The things may have happened this way in some Georgium Sidus, where the Comic Spirit has arranged the proper Fourth Dimension: but that is not the way they happen here.
A minute after the coachman entered to take his dram, followed by the guard; a more lamentable spectacle of condensed moisture cannot be conceived; the rain fell from the entire circumference of his broad-brimmed hat, like the ever-flowing drop from the edge of an antique fountain; his drab-coat had become a deep orange hue, while his huge figure loomed still larger, as he stood amid a nebula of damp, that would have made an atmosphere for the Georgium Sidus.
The most learned Monsieur LEIBNITZ thus addresseth to me his third Letter, Illustrissimo BICKERSTAFFIO Astrologico Instauratori, &c. Monsieur LE CLERC, quoting my Predictions in a treatise he published last year, is pleased to say, Ita, nuperrime BICKERSTAFFIUS, magnum illud Angliae sidus.
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