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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... already done so elsewhere , into the astronomical evidence in favour of either theory ; but it will be well to present briefly some Among the various forms of nebula ( or star - of the more striking facts . 4 Our Place among Infinities .
... already done so elsewhere , into the astronomical evidence in favour of either theory ; but it will be well to present briefly some Among the various forms of nebula ( or star - of the more striking facts . 4 Our Place among Infinities .
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... nebulæ , -such , for instance , as that wonderful nebula in the Sword of Orion , -shew by their enormous extension the existence of sufficient quantities of gaseous matter to form systems as large and as massive as our own , or even far ...
... nebulæ , -such , for instance , as that wonderful nebula in the Sword of Orion , -shew by their enormous extension the existence of sufficient quantities of gaseous matter to form systems as large and as massive as our own , or even far ...
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... already done so elsewhere , into the astronomical evidence in favour of either theory ; but it will be well to present briefly some Among the various forms of nebulæ ( or star - of the more striking facts . 4 Our Place among Infinities .
... already done so elsewhere , into the astronomical evidence in favour of either theory ; but it will be well to present briefly some Among the various forms of nebulæ ( or star - of the more striking facts . 4 Our Place among Infinities .
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... nebulæ , -such , for instance , as that wonderful nebula in the Sword of Orion , -shew by their enormous extension the existence of sufficient quantities of gaseous matter to form systems as large and as massive as our own , or even far ...
... nebulæ , -such , for instance , as that wonderful nebula in the Sword of Orion , -shew by their enormous extension the existence of sufficient quantities of gaseous matter to form systems as large and as massive as our own , or even far ...
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... nebulæ in which we seem to find clear evidence of a process of evolution . We see first the traces of a central ... nebula . Then , still passing be it remembered from nebula to nebula , and only inferring , not actually witness- ing ...
... nebulæ in which we seem to find clear evidence of a process of evolution . We see first the traces of a central ... nebula . Then , still passing be it remembered from nebula to nebula , and only inferring , not actually witness- ing ...
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