"Occultation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Whitbread, Major Keppel, and Lord Mahon—separately told me the impression made on them by this actress was such that they could not sleep afterwards! I had no trial how this would be with me, because we went off from the playhouse to Sir James South's, to see the occultation of Jupiter's satellites: that was indeed a sublime reality, and no wonder we were ...
— The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth
... greatest height capable of refracting the solar ray, to be 5,376 feet. My ideas on this topic had also received confirmation by a passage in the eighty-second volume of the Philosophical Transactions, in which it is stated that at an occultation of Jupiter's satellites, the third disappeared after having been about 1" or 2" of time indistinct, and the fourth became indiscernible ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... star or planet becoming visible after occultation. Perpetual apparition of the lesser northern circles, wherein the stars being ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth |
