The Plurality of Worlds: With an Introduction by Edward HitchcockGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 368 sider |
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Side viii
... fixed stars were perhaps so many suns ; it was impossible to repress the con- jecture that the planets might have had their inhabit- ants , and the stars their inhabited planets . This was at first a mere conjecture . Has the sub ...
... fixed stars were perhaps so many suns ; it was impossible to repress the con- jecture that the planets might have had their inhabit- ants , and the stars their inhabited planets . This was at first a mere conjecture . Has the sub ...
Side ix
... fixed stars were proved to be , offered a reason why we may fail to see their planets , even if they have planets . The immense number of stars , which were shown to exist by the improvements in telescopes ; and the telescopic ...
... fixed stars were proved to be , offered a reason why we may fail to see their planets , even if they have planets . The immense number of stars , which were shown to exist by the improvements in telescopes ; and the telescopic ...
Side x
... stars have planets revolving or moving near them at all , is a supposition ... fixed star . Also the argument for the vastness of the scheme of the ... stars . The best astronomers agree in sup- posing nebula to have distances of the same ...
... stars have planets revolving or moving near them at all , is a supposition ... fixed star . Also the argument for the vastness of the scheme of the ... stars . The best astronomers agree in sup- posing nebula to have distances of the same ...
Side xi
... fixed stars . It has been calculated that the light sent to us by the sun is 20,000 million times as great as that sent by Alpha Cen- tauri . * Now the parallax of Alpha Centauri has been determined to be nearly one second ; which makes ...
... fixed stars . It has been calculated that the light sent to us by the sun is 20,000 million times as great as that sent by Alpha Cen- tauri . * Now the parallax of Alpha Centauri has been determined to be nearly one second ; which makes ...
Side xiv
... FIXED STARS . CHAPTER VIII . PAGE 98 . 135 163 CHAPTER IX .. THE PLANETS . 192 CHAPTER X. THEORY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM . 219 CHAPTER XI . THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN . 236 CHAPTER XII . 275 THE UNITY OF THE WORLD . · THE FUTURE ...
... FIXED STARS . CHAPTER VIII . PAGE 98 . 135 163 CHAPTER IX .. THE PLANETS . 192 CHAPTER X. THEORY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM . 219 CHAPTER XI . THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN . 236 CHAPTER XII . 275 THE UNITY OF THE WORLD . · THE FUTURE ...
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Side 23 - O rack me not to such a vast extent; Those distances belong to thee: The world's too little for thy tent, A grave too big for me.
Side 271 - Look then abroad through nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of...
Side 68 - Far other life you live, far other tongue You talk, far other thought, perhaps, you think, Than man. How various are the works of God! But say, what thought?
Side 336 - The recognition of an ideal exemplar for the vertebrated animals, proves that the knowledge of such a being as man must have existed before man appeared. For the Divine Mind which planned the archetype also foreknew all its modifications. The archetypal idea was manifested in the flesh, under divers modifications, upon this planet, long prior to the existence of those animal species that actually exemplify it.
Side 351 - Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, " 'Tis for mine: For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower; Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew ; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft...
Side 129 - The intelligent part of creation is thrust into the compass of a few years, in the course of myriads of ages ; why not then into the compass of a few miles, in the expanse of systems...
Side 141 - Taking the apparent semidiameter of the nubecula major at 3°, and regarding its solid form as, roughly speaking, spherical, its nearest and most remote parts differ in their distance from us by a little more than a tenth part of our distance from its centre.
Side 260 - Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.