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... tion , were entirely dispersed , and I was once more invited to the grateful task of repeating my obser- vations . I then beheld a most agreeable spec- tacle - the object of my sanguine wishes ; a spot of unusual magnitude and of a ...
... tion , were entirely dispersed , and I was once more invited to the grateful task of repeating my obser- vations . I then beheld a most agreeable spec- tacle - the object of my sanguine wishes ; a spot of unusual magnitude and of a ...
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... tion in about eight centuries . The united mass of the system is about one - half that of the Sun , and in point of luminosity they are much inferior to that orb . The star 70 Ophiuchi ( fig . 3 ) may be regarded as typical of a binary ...
... tion in about eight centuries . The united mass of the system is about one - half that of the Sun , and in point of luminosity they are much inferior to that orb . The star 70 Ophiuchi ( fig . 3 ) may be regarded as typical of a binary ...
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... tion of those attenuated masses of luminous matter into stars is capable of accounting for the genera- tion and formation of all the shining orbs which enter into the structure of the starry heavens . In the evolution of a ' cosmos out ...
... tion of those attenuated masses of luminous matter into stars is capable of accounting for the genera- tion and formation of all the shining orbs which enter into the structure of the starry heavens . In the evolution of a ' cosmos out ...
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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