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... heavens and examined minutely all the stars in their groups and aggregations as they passed before his eye in the field of the telescope . He sounded the depths of the Milky Way , and explored the wondrous regions of that shining zone ...
... heavens and examined minutely all the stars in their groups and aggregations as they passed before his eye in the field of the telescope . He sounded the depths of the Milky Way , and explored the wondrous regions of that shining zone ...
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... Heaven of Heavens- Here finished He , and all that He had made Viewed , and behold ! all was entirely good . So even and morn accomplished the sixth day : Yet not till the Creator from his work Desisting , though unwearied , up returned ...
... Heaven of Heavens- Here finished He , and all that He had made Viewed , and behold ! all was entirely good . So even and morn accomplished the sixth day : Yet not till the Creator from his work Desisting , though unwearied , up returned ...
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... Heaven of Heavens I have presumed , An earthly guest , and drawn empyreal air , Thy tempering . With like safety guided down , Return me to my native element ; Lest , from this flying steed unreined , ( as once Belerophon , though from ...
... Heaven of Heavens I have presumed , An earthly guest , and drawn empyreal air , Thy tempering . With like safety guided down , Return me to my native element ; Lest , from this flying steed unreined , ( as once Belerophon , though from ...
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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