The phenomena and order of the solar system (1843)
Nichol, J. P. (John Pringle), 1804-1859 · New York : Dayton & Newman · leaf 37
osititious—nolonger a hypothetical though useful, machinery, but realand substantial as the planets themselves: and when wereach the dull and dismal flat of the middle ages—whosecharacter was the absence of originality, the activity of thelearned or commentatorial spirit, along with much acute-ness… … ?l.lll XiiUi^. # CRYSTAL GLOBES. 31 of the fixed stars being placed in a crystalline sphere, andmade a few general remarks upon the spheres of the otherstars ; whereupon the philosophers of the middle ages, notcontented with the belief that Ptolemys circles were ac-tual existences, and to be found…
Solar system
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