Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 89
fact, some idea of the depth of our nes-cience may be imagined. This, of course, did not pre-vent text-books from confidently misinstructing youth,or Nautical Almanacs from misguiding computers withfigures that thus almost achieved immortality, so longhad they passed current in spite of lacking… … yORD Sulla Rotazione di Mercurio — Di G. V. Schiaparelli. toward night, but actually at midday, he made someremarkable discoveries, and though he did not detectthe hitherto erroneous values of the volume, the mass,or the density, his method of observation paved theway for their ascertainment. What…
Cosmogony
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