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... nebula . Astronomers have been baffled in their attempts to discover the nature of the Andromeda Nebula . Though great telescopes have been able to render visible thousands of stars over and around it , yet the nebula itself is ...
... nebula . Astronomers have been baffled in their attempts to discover the nature of the Andromeda Nebula . Though great telescopes have been able to render visible thousands of stars over and around it , yet the nebula itself is ...
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... nebula is in the con- stellation of the Dragon , near to the pole of the ecliptic ; it is slightly oval , of a pale blue colour , and contains a star of the eleventh magnitude in its centre . It gives a gaseous spectrum . Attempts have ...
... nebula is in the con- stellation of the Dragon , near to the pole of the ecliptic ; it is slightly oval , of a pale blue colour , and contains a star of the eleventh magnitude in its centre . It gives a gaseous spectrum . Attempts have ...
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... nebula . The rotatory motion of a nebula , in obedience to a well - known mechani- cal law , increases as its density becomes greater , and this goes on until the tangential force at the equator overcomes the gravitational attraction at ...
... nebula . The rotatory motion of a nebula , in obedience to a well - known mechani- cal law , increases as its density becomes greater , and this goes on until the tangential force at the equator overcomes the gravitational attraction at ...
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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