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... fact here and a figure there will start the mind in a train of fresh and novel speculation , and set the fancy to luxuriate in new and untrodden realms . Many of these points , moreover , to which we allude , though very interesting and ...
... fact here and a figure there will start the mind in a train of fresh and novel speculation , and set the fancy to luxuriate in new and untrodden realms . Many of these points , moreover , to which we allude , though very interesting and ...
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... fact of ap- parently little importance in itself often leads indirectly to very unexpected and startling consequences . The magnitude of a planet is a point we should never expect to find in any way necessarily connected with the nature ...
... fact of ap- parently little importance in itself often leads indirectly to very unexpected and startling consequences . The magnitude of a planet is a point we should never expect to find in any way necessarily connected with the nature ...
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... fact it will be readily seen that if the sun were inhabited by beings constituted like ourselves , its population could consist only of dwarfs two or three inches in height . Very singular it surely is that the larger the world the ...
... fact it will be readily seen that if the sun were inhabited by beings constituted like ourselves , its population could consist only of dwarfs two or three inches in height . Very singular it surely is that the larger the world the ...
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... fact was first discovered it excited great interest among astronomers . The increment , though extremely * Due to the perturbing influence of the other planets . small , appeared to be perfectly regular , and if C 2 The Planets . 19.
... fact was first discovered it excited great interest among astronomers . The increment , though extremely * Due to the perturbing influence of the other planets . small , appeared to be perfectly regular , and if C 2 The Planets . 19.
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... fact that he is unattended by any satellites , rendered the determination of his mass and other elements a matter of much difficulty , and great dis- crepancies exist between the earlier estimates of them . Fortunately his small size ...
... fact that he is unattended by any satellites , rendered the determination of his mass and other elements a matter of much difficulty , and great dis- crepancies exist between the earlier estimates of them . Fortunately his small size ...
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