The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 170
nse,be the expansion of knowledge, the increase of informa-tion, the breaking up of ignorance and superstition, theimmeasurable enlargement of the horizon of information,then, indeed, has the telescope been a potent agency inthe labor of aiding in the civilizing of the human race.It has been the… … EQUATORIAL TELESCOPE OP WAENER OBSERVATOEY ROCHESTER, N. Y. (165) 166 THE MICROSCOPE AND THE TELESCOPE. It shattered with a single blow the crystal sphereswhich so snugly and so long ensconced the earth, hke acocoon that enyelops the silk-worm. It took the earthfrom this fragile centre,…
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