The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular Exposition of the Great Discoveries and Theories of Modern Astronomy. In a Series of Ten LecturesOakley & Mason, 1868 - 320 páginas |
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... impossible to predict . Having closed the subject under discussion , the audience were requested to give me a few minutes of time , for the explanation of a matter which it was hoped would not be received without some feelings of ...
... impossible to predict . Having closed the subject under discussion , the audience were requested to give me a few minutes of time , for the explanation of a matter which it was hoped would not be received without some feelings of ...
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... impossible to abandon the observatory . The college could not be rebuilt , at least for several years , and in this emergency I found it necessary to seek some means of support , least inconsistent with my duties in the observatory . My ...
... impossible to abandon the observatory . The college could not be rebuilt , at least for several years , and in this emergency I found it necessary to seek some means of support , least inconsistent with my duties in the observatory . My ...
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... impossible ; by simplicity of language , by familiar illustrations , to fling light enough upon these mysterious propositions , to show a pathway , though it be dim and rugged , still a pathway , which if pursued shall certainly lead to ...
... impossible ; by simplicity of language , by familiar illustrations , to fling light enough upon these mysterious propositions , to show a pathway , though it be dim and rugged , still a pathway , which if pursued shall certainly lead to ...
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... impossible to predicate of the earth ab- solute immobility , then arises the complicated ques- tion , how many motions belong to it ? and with what velocity does it move ? If a motion of rotation exist , what is the position of the axis ...
... impossible to predicate of the earth ab- solute immobility , then arises the complicated ques- tion , how many motions belong to it ? and with what velocity does it move ? If a motion of rotation exist , what is the position of the axis ...
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... impossible alternatives . But who shall prescribe the limits of human genius ? In studying the phenomena of the passage of light through transparent crystalized bodies , a principle is discovered which lets in a gleam of hope on the dis ...
... impossible alternatives . But who shall prescribe the limits of human genius ? In studying the phenomena of the passage of light through transparent crystalized bodies , a principle is discovered which lets in a gleam of hope on the dis ...
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