Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around Us. To which are Added Essays on Astrology and the Jewish SabbathH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 323 páginas |
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... Sirius , from Homer who compared the fiery lustre of the arms of Diomede with the splendour of the autumn star , " When new risen from the waves of ocean , " to our poet - laureate , who sings of Arac and his brothers , that " As the ...
... Sirius , from Homer who compared the fiery lustre of the arms of Diomede with the splendour of the autumn star , " When new risen from the waves of ocean , " to our poet - laureate , who sings of Arac and his brothers , that " As the ...
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... Sirius . Yet even this fact ( for such it is ) , amazing as it must appear , sinks into insignifi- cance beside the fact that Sirius is a sun many times more splendid than our own . That beautiful star , which even in the most powerful ...
... Sirius . Yet even this fact ( for such it is ) , amazing as it must appear , sinks into insignifi- cance beside the fact that Sirius is a sun many times more splendid than our own . That beautiful star , which even in the most powerful ...
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... Sirius was above the horizon in the day - time . But if it is perplexing to understand how the ancients came to regard the rays of Sirius as thus potent , either for evil or for good , it is even more difficult to understand how ...
... Sirius was above the horizon in the day - time . But if it is perplexing to understand how the ancients came to regard the rays of Sirius as thus potent , either for evil or for good , it is even more difficult to understand how ...
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... Sirius , it appears plain that the star must have changed in colour . At present Sirius , when high above the horizon ( as seen , therefore , in southern latitudes ,, is unmistakably white . But Aratus and Ptolemy , Senera and Cicero ...
... Sirius , it appears plain that the star must have changed in colour . At present Sirius , when high above the horizon ( as seen , therefore , in southern latitudes ,, is unmistakably white . But Aratus and Ptolemy , Senera and Cicero ...
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... Sirius was above the horizon in the day - time . But if it is perplexing to understand how the ancients came to regard the rays of Sirius as thus potent , either for evil or for good , it is even more difficult to understand how ...
... Sirius was above the horizon in the day - time . But if it is perplexing to understand how the ancients came to regard the rays of Sirius as thus potent , either for evil or for good , it is even more difficult to understand how ...
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