Naturally, in this view of things, if heaven was a loft, hell was a cellar; and if there were ascensions into one, there were descents into the other.
It was experimented on by the brothers Robert, who made two ascensions and claimed to have obtained a deviation of 22 deg.
Right ascensions are now determined, not by measuring the angle between one star and another, but, by noting the time between the transits of successive stars over the meridian.
The difference between these times, when reduced to an angle, is the difference of the right ascensions of the stars.
This instrument moves only in the plane of the meridian on a horizontal east and west axis, and is used to determine the rightascensions and declinations of stars.
The latter motion leads to the use, in astronomical practice, of time instead of angle, as the unit in which the right ascensions are to be expressed.
We have already mentioned that in astronomical practice right ascensions are expressed in time, so that no multiplication by 15 is necessary.
But for the apparent necessity of her making soul-ascensions under God's heaven, I supposed she would not have been allowed to take the air at all with such a creature of Satan hovering.
My father makes soul-ascensions at any hour by force of prayer.
He had been an assiduous spectator of myascensions in several cities of Germany.
Besides, has not aerostatic science made great progress since the ascensionsof Blanchard?
I know your skill," replied he, composedly; "your brilliant ascensions have made some noise in the world.
But while the charm of floating in the air is so fascinating these delightful ascensionswill be even more beneficial in sanitary respects.
Among other remarkable ascensions is that of Guy Lussac, who reached the prodigious hight of nearly four and a half miles.
Numerous day and night ascensionswere made by diplomats, distinguished naturalists, professors of note, scientific women and gymnastic aspirants, and their journeys soon became more daring and extended to wider fields.
This sham equestrian excursion through the air appears to have generally disappointed onlookers, and pony ascensions have not been attempted a second time in England.
He has subsequently made some hundreds of ascensions from the metropolis, and various other parts of the empire, with balloons so inflated; and, from the year 1821, coal gas has been very generally used in experiments of this nature.
You see, the trouble is that all the balloon ascensions ordinarily are made from the large cities of America or Europe.
Before the boy could answer the old soldier continued: "I don't mean one of those affairs in which ascensions of an hour or so are made.
Aboul Hassan in the thirteenth century (1282) was the first to use Right Ascensions and Declinations instead of Longitudes and Latitudes.
This change of position has led to some confusion; but at present the positions of the stars are indicated by their Right Ascensions and Declinations, without any reference to their positions in the ancient figures.
It is true that balloons, in the first stage of their ascensions from the earth, are known to rise with a velocity comparatively moderate.
He made frequentascensions with Lowe, and learned to go aloft alone.
When I knew him he was giving balloon ascensions at a circus.
Parks and Andy were passing to the outfield where the test ascensions were in progress, when the former suddenly left the side of his companion.
He thought out an original method of obtaining the absolute right ascensions of stars by differential observations of the places of the stars and the sun near to both equinoxes.
While the right ascensions of the solar apex as given by the different investigations have been pretty uniform, the declination of this point has shown a rather wide variation not yet explained.
Hipparchus was an accurate observer, and he discovered an apparent and perpetual shifting of the vernal equinox westward, by which the right ascensions of the stars are all the time increasing.
Then came a six-cylinder Blériot, and ascensions became more numerous.
These were the first ascensions before launching into space.
When she spoke to him of her spiritual experiences, he felt joyous ascensions of the heart which raised him nearer to heaven.
Such instances are frequently visible, and if his ascensions had been undertaken at other times in stormy weather he would have seen more of them.
Recently, in 1852, four ascensions were made in England, under the direction of the Kew Observatory Committee, of the British Association.
Very few balloonascensions have been made with a view to scientific and accurate observation.
Circumstances compelled me to drive the old horse, who has made more ascensionsof the mountain than any living thing, back to Warren.
It ought to be said here that, with rare exceptions, the men who serve you in these ascensions should be regarded rather as porters than as guides.
This is Alpha Arietis, the first point in the constellation of that name, which signifies the Ram, and from which the right ascensions of the stars are measured on the celestial sphere.
He invented the sciences of plane and spherical trigonometry, and was the first to use right ascensions and declinations.
Small transit instruments are employed for taking the time and for regulating the observatory clock, but large instruments are used for delicate and exact observations of Right Ascensions and Declinations of stars of different magnitudes.
Will the precession ever bring back the right ascensions and declinations to be again what they now are?
The motion of the pole of course carries the equator and the equinoxes with it, and thus slowly changes the right ascensions and declinations of all the stars.
It plays the same part in measuring right ascensions as does the meridian of Greenwich in measuring longitudes; it is the beginning, from which they are reckoned.
These points are called the equinoxes, Vernal Equinox and Autumnal Equinox for the spring and autumn crossings respectively, and the student will recall that the vernal equinox is the point from which right ascensions are measured.
It is in this way that astronomers measure the right ascensions of the stars and planets.
This discovery, long since fully confirmed, gave a great impetus to observing with all possible accuracy the right ascensions and declinations of the stars, with a view to finding other cases of what was called proper motion--i.
I made more'n twenty ascensions and drops last summer.
I remember a boys' balloon picnic that I got up one summer at Chautauqua Lake while I was makingascensions there.
In making ascensions we have to be very careful not to breathe too much gas from the balloon-neck which hangs open over the basket.
He had been giving one of his trapeze exhibitions at Ithaca, New York, and was induced by some Cornell students to furnish them captive ascensions from the university campus.
Simmonds, a wealthy enthusiast of London who made ascensions for the British Aëronautical Society.
The novel and sensational expedients with which he embellished his subsequent ascensions are well known.
He has made no ascensionsfor some years, his surplus time and enthusiasm being diverted to European travel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ascensions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
