Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851- [from old catalog] · New York, London, D. Appleton and company · leaf 73
experience and knowledge toconvince men of the parvitude of themselves and their belong-ings. So, in all ages they have applied a terrestrial measureto the universe, and imagined they could behold humanaffairs reflected in the heavens and human interests setting thegods together by the ears. This… … suns and systems upon systems, was too overwhelming forcomprehension by the inventors of the constellations. Sothey amused themselves, like imaginative children, as theywere, by tracing the outlines of men and beasts formed bythose pretty lights, the stars. They turned the starry heav-ens into a…
Astronomy
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