The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy, or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or norhtern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c (1837)
Bradford, Duncan. [from old catalog] · Boston, American stationers company · leaf 139
overspread the fair face of nature, and,instead of a pleasant and comfortable abode, ourglobe would become a frightful desert, a state ofmisery and perpetual punishment.* When viewed through powerful telescopes, pro-vided with colored glasses, to take off the heat,which would otherwise injure our… … Occasionally they break up, or divide into two ormore, and in those offer every evidence of thatextreme mobility which belongs only to the fluidstate, and of that excessively violent agitationwhich seems only compatible with the atmosphericor gaseous state of matter. The scale on whichtheir…
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