Reed, Lucas Albert · Mountain View, Cal., Kansas City, Mo. [etc. ] Pacific press publishing assn · leaf 272
nstruments being insufficient to penetrate tothese last strata, we look into the remote regions ofspace as through tubes. —Cosmos, volume 4, pages 34^> 349- In the first volume of his Cosmos, Humboldtspeaks in a quite similar strain. I quote: If we pic-ture to ourselves the telescopic stars… … The Firmament of Saturn Illuminated by Its RingSaturn is about 885,000,000 miles from the sun. Its year isalmost thirty of ours, and consists of 25,217 Saturn days. Ifit has seasons, they each last over seven years. The ring ofSaturn has three parts, supposed to consist of relatively smallparticles…
Astronomy in the Bible · Bible and science · Religion and Science
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