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A treatise on astronomy, descriptive, physical and practical. Designed for schools, colleges, and private students (1849)

Robinson, Horatio N. (Horatio Nelson), 1806-1867 · Albany, N.Y., E.H. Pease & Co.; [etc., etc.] · leaf 170

An illustration from A treatise on astronomy, descriptive, physical and practical. Designed for schools, colleges, and private students, 1849, leaf 170 — e us some idea of theimmense extent of the group. To what distance then must we with-draw, in order that this whole collection may appear as small as theother nebulse which we perceive, some of which cannot, by the assist-ance of the best telescopes, be made to present anything but a brightspeck,… … 156 ASTRONOMY. Chap. XIII. the universe, and the mind reverts involuntarily to the insignificantportion of it which we are destined to occupy. Observa- Before we close this chapter, we think it important to call the atten-tions on ta- tjou 0f the reajer t0 table II , in which will be seen, at a…

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