The pith of astronomy <without mathematics>; the latest facts and figures as developed by the giant telescopes; (1896)
Bayne, Samuel G. (Samuel Gamble), 1844-1924 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 120
will claim our first atten-tion. All the stars we see in the heavensare popularly called fixed stars, todistinguish them from the wanderingplanets of the solar system. The namewas given them by the ancients, whenthey were believed to be stationary.Modern science has shown that none ofthem are… … THE FIXED STARS 77 intelligent mind that the laws of naturewill not permit any body to hang sus-pended in space without motion; itmust move or fall in some direction,and when it falls it moves; so, then, itclearly follows that all is motion in theheavens, and that nothing is fixedor stable. All we…
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