Giberne, Agnes, 1845- (from old catalog) · Cincinnati, National book company · leaf 181
and thoughtful monk seems to have been wise farbeyond the age in which he lived, and remarkablefor his independence of mind. He had a profoundsagacity, and a wide general grasp of scientificsubjects. The extremely complicated and cumbrous natureof the Ptolemaic system appeared to his judgmenthardly… … NICOI^AUS COPERNICUS. During thirty-six long years he patiently workedout this theory, and during part of those thirty-sixyears he wrote the one great book of his lifetime, ex-plaining the newer view of the Solar System which YET MORE ABOUT THE MOON. 177 had taken hold of his reason and…
Astronomy
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