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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854. Excerpt: ... LII. CONVERSATION IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTUKY. It has struck nine. The saloon is almost full-it would be still more crowded, if we were not in the beginning of August, --of Augustus as Monsieur de Voltaire would have us say. We will enter and endeavor to seize a few words from the midst of this heap of nothings presenting themselves in grave costume, and of serious questions debated in trifling tones. "It is overwhelming!--Come Monsieur de la Caille, tell us something more about it. What a pity that Monsieur de Fontenelle should be dead!" "Why, Madame?" "Because he was the only person who could tell us poor women such things without terrifying us too much." "Why do you ask us about them, then V "Go on, --malicious!" "Well! It is just as I had the honor of saying. I have calculated, within a few millions, the number of leagues which separate us from a certain star which I have been studying for a long time. I discovered--but I will not tell you the number. You could never remember it. Listen. Light travels, I told you--" "About seventy leagues a second." "Good. How long a time then do you imagine was required for my star to become visible?" "Six months." "Nonsense!" The astronomer. "Six years!" "Pooh!" "How long then 2" "More than nine thousand years." "Ah! Good heavens! I shall dream of that!" "Dream of it, Madame, indeed." "Nine thousand years! And seventy leagues a second'" "Nine thousand years. There may be stars created eighty centuries ago, which we have never yet seen." "Poor Moses!" This was the conclusion which was drawn from all the discoveries of the age. They little imagined that science was one day to make peace with the author of Genesis, by finding in the succinct account of Moses, so sarcastically spoken of, all the most exact information whic...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150190254
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 130
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150190256
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 245 gr


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