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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... seemed that the moment had arrived for taking the first step in an enterprise whose fate it was impossible to predict . Having closed the subject under discussion , the audience were requested to give me a few minutes of time , for the ...
... seemed that the moment had arrived for taking the first step in an enterprise whose fate it was impossible to predict . Having closed the subject under discussion , the audience were requested to give me a few minutes of time , for the ...
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... seemed to bid de- fiance to all his powers . To conquer these difficulties , one of two things must be accomplished : either man must sweep out from earth towards the distant planets , to gain a nearer and more accurate view , or else ...
... seemed to bid de- fiance to all his powers . To conquer these difficulties , one of two things must be accomplished : either man must sweep out from earth towards the distant planets , to gain a nearer and more accurate view , or else ...
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... seemed to bid defiance to all effort at comprehension , presented itself to the human intellect . It was no less than this - given , a system of revolv- ing worlds , mutually operating on each other ; re- quired , their magnitudes ...
... seemed to bid defiance to all effort at comprehension , presented itself to the human intellect . It was no less than this - given , a system of revolv- ing worlds , mutually operating on each other ; re- quired , their magnitudes ...
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... seemed that no ingenuity or skill could remove . But its efforts do not go unrewarded . If it fails in the accomplishment of its grand object , it is rewarded by the most brilliant discoveries . The mighty law governing the planetary ...
... seemed that no ingenuity or skill could remove . But its efforts do not go unrewarded . If it fails in the accomplishment of its grand object , it is rewarded by the most brilliant discoveries . The mighty law governing the planetary ...
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... seemed impossible that the moon , which manifestly participated in this general move ment , should have another and a different motion , from west to east . There was one solution of this mystery , and I have no doubt it was for a long ...
... seemed impossible that the moon , which manifestly participated in this general move ment , should have another and a different motion , from west to east . There was one solution of this mystery , and I have no doubt it was for a long ...
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