At the present day the nautical ephemerides contain, several years in advance, the indications of the times of the eclipses and reappearances of Jupiter's satellites.
Certain limits of latitude within which eclipses take place, and beyond which they cannot occur.
A period of about 6586 days, which is the time of a revolution of the moon's node; after the lapse of this period the eclipses recur in the same order as before, with few exceptions.
One heavenly body eclipsing another; but in nautical astronomy it is particularly used to denote the eclipses of stars and planets by the moon.
Rahu still pursues the Sun and Moon at eclipses out of enmity.
But the development of selfishness eclipses this nature, the true, the real nature of Jiva, and he identifies himself entirely with the acquired and false nature.
Even so Ahankara, proceeding from Brahman, manifested by Brahman, even a part of Brahman, eclipses the perception of Brahman by Jiva.
That the Moon does eclipse the Sun in the same manner as our Earth eclipses the Moon (as all know it does) makes me conclude these two Bodies of a Nature, since the like Interposition produces the like Effect.
That it is an opaque and solid Body, is visible by the Eclipses of the Sun; for a pellucid Body could not deprive us of the Light of that glorious Planet.
Krassilnikoff in returning from Kamtchatka observed at Yakutsk several eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter, of which the following are mentioned by him as the most exact.
She devoted much time to calculating eclipses with a view to accurately determining the motion of the moon, and was, besides, the author of numerous astronomical tables which exhibit patient research and unquestioned skill.
On the occasion of the different eclipses which she had calculated, Mme.
But Le Verrier declares that the facts observed during late eclipses are contrary to this theory, and a new theory is slow in process of construction, to be demolished in its turn by later observations.
It never seems to have occurred to him, that if he could calculate eclipses backward, so could the Hindoos.
How much she then eclipses everything else that appears charming to the affections, every one may readily perceive with the least exertion of his reason, if it be not wholly spoiled for abstraction.
Then ceased the King and silent stood, While Tarfe to his Celia said: "Celestial Celia be thy name; Celestial calm is on thy brow; Yet all the radiance of thy face Thy cruelty eclipses now.
That's the reason why we see Eclipses of the sun and moon.
The Chaldæans seem not to have been able to make a skilful use of it, for their books indicate the occurrence of lunar eclipses outside the predicted periods.
Tannery is of opinion that the Chaldæans must have predicted eclipses of the sun by means of the period of two hundred and twenty-three lunations, and shows by what a simple means they could have arrived at it.
At Saturn's equator these eclipses occur near the equinoxes and last but a little while, but in the regions corresponding to our temperate zone they are of long duration.
And the Saturnian winter has its gloom increased byeclipses of the sun's light by the rings.
Marble beauties seem to suffer the same occasional eclipsesas those of flesh and blood.
England has many a great chancel-window that, though dimmer in its hues, dusty, and perhaps made up of heterogeneous fragments, eclipses these by its spacious breadth.
It was found that eclipses came at certain intervals, and that their coming could be foretold.
They do not believe that earthquakes, or tempests, or volcanoes, or eclipses are caused by the conduct of men.
Eclipses were produced by the sins of the people, and the unusual was regarded as the miraculous.
That eclipses were not caused by the wrath of God--that comets had nothing to do with the destruction of empires or the death of kings, that the stars wheeled in their orbits without regard to the actions of men.
Let us take another step: Our fathers believed in miracles, in signs and wonders, eclipses and comets, in the virtues of bones, and in the powers attributed to evil spirits.
In the gloom of eclipses thieves and robbers divided their booty with God, and poor, honest, ignorant girls, remembering that they had forgotten to say a prayer, gave their little earnings to soften the heart of God.
Possibly comets, eclipses and shooting stars foretell the death of kings, the destruction of nations or the coming of plague.
We know now that eclipses come at certain times and that their coming can be exactly foretold.
He knows that comets and eclipses would come if all the folks were dead.
But the town of Hastings, thirty-two miles above, eclipses everything but St. Paul.
Charlemagne, king, Dungal's letter to on the two solar eclipses said to have taken place in A.
In that year he addressed a remarkable letter to Charlemagne on the two solar eclipses which were said to have taken place in the previous year, A.
As for determining the exact dates of the eclipses of the sun, and, therefore, the possibility of having two in the year A.
In the main, however, his explanation of the eclipses of the sun and moon is accurate enough.
A Method for Observing theEclipses of the Moon, free from the Common Inconveniencies, as it was left by the Learned Mr. Rook, late Gresham-Professor of Geometry.
A method for observing the Eclipses of the Moon, free from the common Inconveniences, by M.
A Method for Observing the Eclipses of the Moon, free from the Common Inconveniences.
These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us.
No more be grieved at that which thou hast done, Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud, Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
In the Royal Astronomical Society, I presented Memoirs and gave lectures on the three great chronological eclipses (Agathocles, Thales, Larissa).
The generalisations by which Newton established the nature of the planetary orbits has been a wonder to succeeding generations; the positions of the planets can be foretold, eclipses can be calculated with amazing accuracy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eclipses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
