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The story of the sun, moon, and stars (1898)

Giberne, Agnes, 1845- [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, National book company · leaf 286

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e to what we do not see. And as God did notform our earth in vain, and did not form our sunin vain, so we firmly believe that he did not formin vain any one of his myriads of suns scatteredthrough space. What is, has been, or will be theparticular use of each one, it would be rash to at- SOME… … STARS WHOSE DISTANCES ARE BEST KNOWN. (See Table.) are separated by a distance about twenty-two times asgreat as the distance of the earth from the sun, yet tothe naked eye they show as a single star. Here againone is much smaller than the other; and the smallerrevolves round the larger in about…

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