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... Milky Way , that wondrous zone of light which encircles the heavens , remained for many ages a source of perplexity to ancient astronomers and philosophers , who , in their endeavours to ascer- tain its nature , had arrived at various ...
... Milky Way , that wondrous zone of light which encircles the heavens , remained for many ages a source of perplexity to ancient astronomers and philosophers , who , in their endeavours to ascer- tain its nature , had arrived at various ...
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... Milky Way comes on the frequency and variety of those masses ( nebulous ) increases ; here the Milky Way is composed of separate or slight or strongly connected clouds of semi - nebulous light , and , as the telescope moves , the ...
... Milky Way comes on the frequency and variety of those masses ( nebulous ) increases ; here the Milky Way is composed of separate or slight or strongly connected clouds of semi - nebulous light , and , as the telescope moves , the ...
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... Milky Way may be regarded as a universe by itself , and our Sun as one of its myriad stars . Milton was aware of the stellar constitution of the Milky Way , which was one of Galileo's disco- veries . The poet gives a singularly accurate ...
... Milky Way may be regarded as a universe by itself , and our Sun as one of its myriad stars . Milton was aware of the stellar constitution of the Milky Way , which was one of Galileo's disco- veries . The poet gives a singularly accurate ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I A SHORT HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ASTRONOMY | 1 |
ASTRONOMY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 45 |
MILTONS ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE | 81 |
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