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The young astronomer; or, The facts developed by modern astronomy, collected for the use of schools and the general reader (1847)

Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877 · New York, J.C. Riker [etc.] · leaf 24

An illustration from The young astronomer; or, The facts developed by modern astronomy, collected for the use of schools and the general reader, 1847, leaf 24 — its own axis from east to west, in about What pleasing hope may we indulge ? What supposition is not im-probable ? What motion has the Sun ? In what time does the Sun re-volve upon its axis ? How was this rotation discovered ? Describe themovement of these spots ? What does the regular rotation of… … Besides the revolution of the Sun upon its own axis,Herschel conjectures that the Sun, carrying with it allthe planetary system, is circling around some distantand unknown centre. What that centre is no one cantell. In what depths of space it is buried, no one canimagine. But the idea is sublime in…

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