The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (Volume 25); Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: college; and the unequalled collection in the Capitoline Museum would furnish casts of several hundreds of the most distinguished characters of antiquity. Thus the highly gifted though poor student would have an opportunity of seeing and studying fac-similes of those foreign monuments of ancient art, which the wealthy alone can travel so far to behold; and to the advancement of art throughout the kingdom and the improvement of our native school, would be added a general increase in classical knowledge and correct ideas of the ancients, only to be derived from such monuments; ?and thus taste, science, literature, and art, would be equally benefited and extended throughout our happy country. Survey of the Surface of the Moon. By Wm. Beer and Dr J. H. Miidler of Berlin. 1. Physiognomy of the Moon's Surface. 2. Supposititious Architectural Remains in the Moon. 3. Do Rivers occur in the Moon ? 4. Lunar Atmosphere. 6. Concerning some observations which appear to indicate the existence of a Lunar Atmosphere. 6. Non- existence in the Moon of Clouds, Seas, fyc. 7- Light and Colour of the Moon. 8. Physical Remarhs upon the Eclipses of the Moon and of t/ie Sun, relating principally to the appearances which t/ie former luminary presents during these interesting phenomena. 9. On the effect of the Earth's light upon the Moon, 10. On the Meteorological influence of the Moon. 1. Physiognomy of the Moon's Surface.?Even with the naked eye we may distinguish upon the surface of the moon, especially when full, many grey markings of different sizes, some of which are very conspicuously distinguished from the more brilliant parts, whilst others gradually merge into them. The name of Seas was conferred on these markings by Hevelius, The above article contains a condensed view of some of...