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" I have shown them ? Now, perhaps, is the time come to revive the well-nigh withered hopes of those who, guided by more profound contemplations, have discovered the fallacy of the new observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of the existence... "
Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon - Page 291
by Belgravia - 1877 - 2 pages
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History of Physical Astronomy: From the Earliest Ages to the Middle of the ...

Robert Grant - Astronomy - 1852 - 688 pages
...discovered the fallacy of the new observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of their existence. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising,...the fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded me."f During the course of nearly half a century which elapsed after the invention of the telescope,...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 40

American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...with which the glasses have so long deceived me, as well as many others, to whom I have shown them? I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked-for, and so novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 40

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 pages
...with which the glasses have so long deceived me, as well as many others, to whom I have shown them? I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked-for, and so novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness...
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Descriptive Astronomy

George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1867 - 888 pages
...discovered the fallacy of the new observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of their existence. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising,...fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded me t" Galileo was so disgusted that he entirely abandoned observations of Saturn. The original discovery...
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Arts and Sciences: Or, Fourth Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Volume 7

Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 528 pages
...discovered the fallacy of the new observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of their existence. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked-for, and so novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness...
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Monthly Packet, Volume 14

1872 - 642 pages
...discovered the fallacy of the new observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of their existence. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising,...fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded me.' Galileo afterwards saw the smaller orbs return into view; but he noticed that as they grew larger and...
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The heavens and the earth; or, Familiar illustrations of astronomy

Thomas Milner - 1873 - 336 pages
...with which the glasses have so long deceived me, as well as many others, to whom I have shown them ? I do not know what to say in a case so surprising,...fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded me." Galileo, however, witnessed the old appearances again, and saw them renew their changes ; but he never...
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Our place among infinities, essays. To which are added essays on astrology ...

Richard Anthony Proctor - 1875 - 394 pages
...discovered the fallacy of the new observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of their existence. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising,...fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded me." Galileo afterwards saw the smaller orbs return into view ; but he noticed that as they grew larger...
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Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode ...

Richard Anthony Proctor - Astrology - 1876 - 496 pages
...discovered the fallacy of the new observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of their existence. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising,...fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded me." Galileo afterwards saw the smaller orbs return into view \ but he noticed that as they grew larger...
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Belgravia, Volume 33

English periodicals - 1877 - 564 pages
...a fin* line of light as seen with one of our powerful modem telescopes. rounded as the disc of Mavs or Jupiter. ' What,' he wrote, ' is to be said concerning...do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for, and so novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness...
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