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... telescope , would put a ball into the bull's - eye from a distance of twenty miles . * An economical war - minister could no longer build on the security afforded by " the streak of silver sea , " for Great Britain might be swept with ...
... telescope , would put a ball into the bull's - eye from a distance of twenty miles . * An economical war - minister could no longer build on the security afforded by " the streak of silver sea , " for Great Britain might be swept with ...
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... telescope . Copernicus lamented upon his death - bed that he had never been able to catch a glimpse of Mercury at all ; the mists from the marshes of the Vistula too obstinately fringed the morning and evening horizon round the Ob ...
... telescope . Copernicus lamented upon his death - bed that he had never been able to catch a glimpse of Mercury at all ; the mists from the marshes of the Vistula too obstinately fringed the morning and evening horizon round the Ob ...
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Robert Kalley Miller. astronomer of the same period only saw him twice . The telescope when turned upon him shews us little but a small round disc , which exhibits phases , like the moon , according to its relative positions with regard ...
Robert Kalley Miller. astronomer of the same period only saw him twice . The telescope when turned upon him shews us little but a small round disc , which exhibits phases , like the moon , according to its relative positions with regard ...
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... telescope , and were detected by Galileo soon after the invention of that instrument . Delighted at his discovery , but unwilling to * Ημος δ ' Εωσφόρος εἶσι , φόως ἐρέων ἐπὶ γαῖαν , Ον τε μέτα κροκόπεπλος ὑπεὶρ ἅλα κίδναται Ηως . Homer ...
... telescope , and were detected by Galileo soon after the invention of that instrument . Delighted at his discovery , but unwilling to * Ημος δ ' Εωσφόρος εἶσι , φόως ἐρέων ἐπὶ γαῖαν , Ον τε μέτα κροκόπεπλος ὑπεὶρ ἅλα κίδναται Ηως . Homer ...
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... telescope . They were discovered by Galileo , who at first sup- posed them to be stars , and was much puzzled for a few nights by the irregular manner in which Jupiter appeared to move Some writers think that the sun's heat at the ...
... telescope . They were discovered by Galileo , who at first sup- posed them to be stars , and was much puzzled for a few nights by the irregular manner in which Jupiter appeared to move Some writers think that the sun's heat at the ...
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