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... space , or the regions of Tartarus , could exist . The stars which gild the concave of the firmament above were con- sidered only as so many bright studs fixed in a crystalline sphere , which carried them round every day to emit a few ...
... space , or the regions of Tartarus , could exist . The stars which gild the concave of the firmament above were con- sidered only as so many bright studs fixed in a crystalline sphere , which carried them round every day to emit a few ...
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... space ; what would be seen could I transport myself to the highest point I perceived ; and what display the Almighty made of himself in those regions so far removed from mortal view . I asked myself whether the heavens might be bounded ...
... space ; what would be seen could I transport myself to the highest point I perceived ; and what display the Almighty made of himself in those regions so far removed from mortal view . I asked myself whether the heavens might be bounded ...
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... space of five or ten minutes . Every inhabitant of the globe has an oppor- tunity , if he choose , of observing the aspect of the heavens in the manner now described , excepting , perhaps , those who live in dark and narrow lanes , in ...
... space of five or ten minutes . Every inhabitant of the globe has an oppor- tunity , if he choose , of observing the aspect of the heavens in the manner now described , excepting , perhaps , those who live in dark and narrow lanes , in ...
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... space of a second of time . For in proportion to the distances of any of these bodies would be the rapidity of their motions . The nearest star would move more than fourteen hundred millions of miles during the time in which the ...
... space of a second of time . For in proportion to the distances of any of these bodies would be the rapidity of their motions . The nearest star would move more than fourteen hundred millions of miles during the time in which the ...
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... space with a velocity of a hundred and forty thou- sand millions of miles in a moment of time ? ' It would most assuredly reduce to atoms the most compact bodies in the universe , although they were composed of substances harder than ...
... space with a velocity of a hundred and forty thou- sand millions of miles in a moment of time ? ' It would most assuredly reduce to atoms the most compact bodies in the universe , although they were composed of substances harder than ...
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