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... moon's ascending node ; or anyone opening at random the pages of a work on the science , and finding an incomprehensible mass of cal- culations , formulæ extending over twenty lines B and using up all the letters of two or three.
... moon's ascending node ; or anyone opening at random the pages of a work on the science , and finding an incomprehensible mass of cal- culations , formulæ extending over twenty lines B and using up all the letters of two or three.
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... mass , and inversely as the square of its distance ; and also that a sphere attracts any external object as if its own mass were all collected at its centre . Now the diameter of the earth being fifty times as great as that of Ceres ...
... mass , and inversely as the square of its distance ; and also that a sphere attracts any external object as if its own mass were all collected at its centre . Now the diameter of the earth being fifty times as great as that of Ceres ...
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... mass and other elements a matter of much difficulty , and great dis- crepancies exist between the earlier estimates of them . Fortunately his small size , and the consequent insignificance of the perturbations he produces in the other ...
... mass and other elements a matter of much difficulty , and great dis- crepancies exist between the earlier estimates of them . Fortunately his small size , and the consequent insignificance of the perturbations he produces in the other ...
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... masses of clouds , reflecting the sun's rays more perfectly than the solid body of the planet . Their paral- * These satellites have played a very important part in the history of science . Their discovery was hailed as a valuable ...
... masses of clouds , reflecting the sun's rays more perfectly than the solid body of the planet . Their paral- * These satellites have played a very important part in the history of science . Their discovery was hailed as a valuable ...
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... or meteoric stones , so numerous and so closely packed together as to be , at our distance from them , indistinguishable from a solid mass . The feeble telescope with which Galileo discovered the rings only 38 The Romance of Astronomy .
... or meteoric stones , so numerous and so closely packed together as to be , at our distance from them , indistinguishable from a solid mass . The feeble telescope with which Galileo discovered the rings only 38 The Romance of Astronomy .
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