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... 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 circular paths , as was believed by Copernicus . In his investigation of the ...
... 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 circular paths , as was believed by Copernicus . In his investigation of the ...
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... round Jupiter after the manner in which the Moon revolves round the Earth . Having assured himself that the four new stars were four moons that with periodical regularity circled round the great planet , Galileo named them the Medicean ...
... round Jupiter after the manner in which the Moon revolves round the Earth . Having assured himself that the four new stars were four moons that with periodical regularity circled round the great planet , Galileo named them the Medicean ...
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... round it there gravitates a sapphire sun , which is believed to accomplish a revolution of its orbit in about 500 years . If round those suns there should be circling planetary systems of worlds inhabited by intelligent beings , the ...
... round it there gravitates a sapphire sun , which is believed to accomplish a revolution of its orbit in about 500 years . If round those suns there should be circling planetary systems of worlds inhabited by intelligent beings , the ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I A SHORT HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ASTRONOMY | 1 |
ASTRONOMY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 45 |
MILTONS ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE | 81 |
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