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Page 156
... expressed as to its being a comet , these were in- creased on further examination , and eventually it was discovered that this interesting object was a new planet . This important discovery at once raised Herschel to a position of ...
... expressed as to its being a comet , these were in- creased on further examination , and eventually it was discovered that this interesting object was a new planet . This important discovery at once raised Herschel to a position of ...
Page 239
... expressed no opinion with regard to their physical constitution . It is only within the past fifty years that proof has been obtained of the real nature of the stars . By the spectroscopic analysis of their light it has been as ...
... expressed no opinion with regard to their physical constitution . It is only within the past fifty years that proof has been obtained of the real nature of the stars . By the spectroscopic analysis of their light it has been as ...
Page 269
... expressed in the following passage : - or faƫry elves , Whose midnight revels , by a forest side Or fountain , some belated peasant sees , Or dreams he sees , while overhead the Moon Sits arbitress , and nearer to the Earth Wheels her ...
... expressed in the following passage : - or faƫry elves , Whose midnight revels , by a forest side Or fountain , some belated peasant sees , Or dreams he sees , while overhead the Moon Sits arbitress , and nearer to the Earth Wheels her ...
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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