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... situated on the Vistula , which formed the boundary between the kingdoms of Prussia and Poland . His father was a Polish subject , and his mother of German extraction . Having lost his parents early in life , he was edu- cated under the ...
... situated on the Vistula , which formed the boundary between the kingdoms of Prussia and Poland . His father was a Polish subject , and his mother of German extraction . Having lost his parents early in life , he was edu- cated under the ...
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... situated in the Great Nebula , by which it is surrounded . This star , when observed with a telescope of low power , can be at once resolved into four separate lucent points , so arranged as to form a quadrilateral figure or tra- pezium ...
... situated in the Great Nebula , by which it is surrounded . This star , when observed with a telescope of low power , can be at once resolved into four separate lucent points , so arranged as to form a quadrilateral figure or tra- pezium ...
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... situated in or very near the Milky Way . Those objects were first described by Sir William Herschel , who was rather perplexed as to what was their real nature and how he should classify them . He remarked that they could not be planets ...
... situated in or very near the Milky Way . Those objects were first described by Sir William Herschel , who was rather perplexed as to what was their real nature and how he should classify them . He remarked that they could not be planets ...
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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