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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... would not be thus conspicuous in one known solid out of ten. Suppose any event, not due to this comet, to be recorded. The chances against the account presenting these six agreements with its elements, and no disagreement, are found by deducting 1 from 16 x 2 x 24 x 16 x 20 x 10, that is, three millions to one that the history of Sodom is true, and this the physical cause. List of 152 Double Stars and Nebula. The ancients divided the starry sphere into constellations, or groups of stars, just as they lay near one another, so as to occupy the spaces which the figures of different sorts of animals would take up if they were delineated there. The twelve constellations of the zodiac stretch round the heavens. They take in the orbits of the moon and the principal planets. Along the middle of this belt is the ecliptic, or circle, which the earth describes every year, if we could see it from the sun, and which the sun appears to describe as we see it from the earth. The distribution of the stars into constellations dates from the first ages of the world. The fact that very few constellations really resemble the animal or thing whose name they bear is easily accounted for. Our primitive fathers made the groups of stars indicate what they wished to perpetuate. They did not pick out a group of stars, and think first what figure it might faintly resemble. The principal constellations were known, as we have them now, among all nations, and in all ages. They are recognised in most ancient monuments. Aquarius has been supposed to refer to the overflowing of the Nile; Virgo, to the harvest in primeval times. But if one constellation coincides with a certain season, there is seldom a plausible explanation to be given of another. A Divine symbolical...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150108778
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 108
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150108770
  • Publisher Date: 20 May 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 209 gr


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