The position of a heavenly body is then defined by its direction and distance from the supposed observer.
Now let P be any point in space, say the centre of a heavenly body.
It is readily seen that the position of a heavenly body is completely defined when these co-ordinates are given.
It had been twice confirmed by actual exploration of the skies, and had produced, in the recognition of Vesta, the first recorded instance of the premeditated discovery of a heavenly body.
We now come to a most remarkable investigation--one, indeed, unique in its profession to lead us back with mathematical certainty towards the origin of a heavenly body.
The proper motion of these bodies is so rapid as to render the usual devices for keeping a heavenly body steadily in view quite inapplicable.
An obscuration of a heavenly body by the interposition of another, or during its passage through the shadow of a larger body.
The angle which the diameter of a heavenly body subtends at any time, varying inversely with its distance.
The elements of an orbit are certain proportions which define the path of a heavenly body in space, and enable the astronomer to calculate its position for past or future times.
Therefore it should not be made of an earthly body, but of a heavenly body.
And this body of an equable temperament has a dignity of its own by reason of its being remote from contraries, thereby resembling in a way a heavenly body.
Accordingly, the union of a soul to a heavenly body cannot be for the purpose of the operations of the intellect.
The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.
Heliocentric longitude, the longitude of a heavenly body, as seen from the sun's center.
The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees.
A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent.
The use of the transit instrument is to show the precise instant when a heavenly body is on the meridian, or to measure the time it occupies in crossing the meridian.
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude.
I answer that, By the reasons which proved that the body of Christ was not an imaginary one, it may also be shown that it was not a heavenly body.
Parallax is simply the difference in angular altitude of a heavenly body as measured from the center of the earth and as measured from the corresponding point on the surface of the earth.
The observed altitude of a heavenly body as seen at sea by the sextant may be converted to the true altitude by the application of the following four corrections: Dip, Refraction, Parallax and Semi-diameter.
For instance, the position of a place on the earth is fixed by its latitude and longitude; the position of a heavenly body is fixed by its declination and right ascension.
The annual parallax of a heavenly body is the angle subtended at that body by the radius of the Earth's orbit.
To each of the first seven spheres there was attached a heavenly body, which was carried round the Earth by the revolution of the crystalline.
Now, I should not be at all surprised if such a heavenly body as Kate Osborne might not have a very important influence in causing my orbit gradually to contract until it became purely local, entirely centred by her.
But, you see, although I am not myself a heavenly body, I may be influenced by heavenly bodies.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heavenly body" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
