The Moon Hoax, Or, A Discovery that the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human BeingsW. Gowans, 1859 - 63 стор. |
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... astronomer , he conceived it practicable to construct an improved series of parabolic and spherical reflec- tors , which , by uniting all the meritorious points in the Grego- rian and Newtonian instruments , with the highly interesting ...
... astronomer , he conceived it practicable to construct an improved series of parabolic and spherical reflec- tors , which , by uniting all the meritorious points in the Grego- rian and Newtonian instruments , with the highly interesting ...
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... astronomer nor the public ventured to hope for any great accession to their developments . The utmost power of the largest telescope in the world had been exerted in a new and felicitous manner to obtain them , and there was no ...
... astronomer nor the public ventured to hope for any great accession to their developments . The utmost power of the largest telescope in the world had been exerted in a new and felicitous manner to obtain them , and there was no ...
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... astronomers of Europe , when occurring under these circumstances , is the Cape of Good Hope ; and no transit of Venus having occurred since the year 1769 , and none being to occur before 1874 , the accu- rate observation of the transits ...
... astronomers of Europe , when occurring under these circumstances , is the Cape of Good Hope ; and no transit of Venus having occurred since the year 1769 , and none being to occur before 1874 , the accu- rate observation of the transits ...
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... astronomer's royal patrons enjoined a masonic taciturnity upon him and his friends until he should have officially communicated the results of his great experi- ment . Accordingly , the world heard nothing of him or his expedition until ...
... astronomer's royal patrons enjoined a masonic taciturnity upon him and his friends until he should have officially communicated the results of his great experi- ment . Accordingly , the world heard nothing of him or his expedition until ...
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... astronomers , as the most likely method to reward our first night's observation with the dis- covery of animated beings . The lenses being removed , and the effulgence of our unutterably glorious reflectors left undi- minished , we ...
... astronomers , as the most likely method to reward our first night's observation with the dis- covery of animated beings . The lenses being removed , and the effulgence of our unutterably glorious reflectors left undi- minished , we ...
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