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Astronomy for amateurs (1904)

Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 222

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Fig. 58.—Raphaels Fire-Bail {^The Madonna of Foligno).202 THE COMETS of the most massive, in which iron predominates, mayeven have issued from the bowels of the Earth, projectedinto space by some volcanic explosion, at an epoch whenour globe was perpetually convulsed by cataclysms ofextraordinary… … Fig. 59.—A Uranolith. being removed from the Earth to distances proportionalto the initial speed imparted to them. This origin seemsthe more admissible as the stones that fall from the skiesexhibit a mineral composition identical with that of theterrestrial materials. 203 ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS In…

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