The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' |
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... natural to imagine that the overruling power which governed and directed the course of sub- lunary events resided in ... nature the occurrence of events of public importance could be predicted . When , how- ever , the laws which govern ...
... natural to imagine that the overruling power which governed and directed the course of sub- lunary events resided in ... nature the occurrence of events of public importance could be predicted . When , how- ever , the laws which govern ...
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... nature , and might even be described as grotesque . This need occasion no surprise when we consider the difficul- ties with which ancient astronomers had to contend in their endeavours to reduce to order and harmony the complicated ...
... nature , and might even be described as grotesque . This need occasion no surprise when we consider the difficul- ties with which ancient astronomers had to contend in their endeavours to reduce to order and harmony the complicated ...
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... natural phenomena presented themselves to his ob- servation . By perceiving that Mars when in opposi- tion was not much inferior in lustre to Jupiter , and when in conjunction resembled a star of the second magnitude , he arrived at the ...
... natural phenomena presented themselves to his ob- servation . By perceiving that Mars when in opposi- tion was not much inferior in lustre to Jupiter , and when in conjunction resembled a star of the second magnitude , he arrived at the ...
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... nature , and packed them on board a vessel which he hired for the purpose of transport , and , having embarked with his family , his servants , and some of his pupils and assistants , this interesting barque , freighted with the glory ...
... nature , and packed them on board a vessel which he hired for the purpose of transport , and , having embarked with his family , his servants , and some of his pupils and assistants , this interesting barque , freighted with the glory ...
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... nature of the paths pursued by the Earth and planets in their revolution round the Sun. After seventeen years of close observation , he an- nounced that those bodies travelled round the Sun in elliptical or oval orbits , and not in ...
... nature of the paths pursued by the Earth and planets in their revolution round the Sun. After seventeen years of close observation , he an- nounced that those bodies travelled round the Sun in elliptical or oval orbits , and not in ...
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