1877. This book is founded upon a French work by M. Flammarion which enjoyed considerable popularity. It contained a number of interesting accounts of the various ideas, sometimes mythical, sometimes intended to be serious, that had been entertained concerning the heavenly bodies and our own earth; with a popular history of the earliest commencement of astronomy among several ancient people. In the early days, astronomy was so mixed up with all the affairs of life, and contributed so much even to religion, that a history of its beginnings is found to reveal the origin of several of our ideas and habits, now quite unconnected with the science. Illustrated.
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ASTRONOMY is an ancient science; and though of late it has made a fresh start in new regions, and we are opening on the era of fresh and unlooked-for discoveries which will soon reveal our present ignorance, our advance upon primitive ideas has been so great that it is difficult for us uninstructive study of them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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ASTRONOMY is an ancient science; and though of late it has made a fresh start in new regions, and we are opening on the era of fresh and unlooked-for discoveries which will soon reveal our present ignorance, our advance upon primitive ideas has been so great that it is difficult for us uninstructive study of them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
civil year, terrestrial world, habitable earth, infernal regions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Bear, Tycho Brahe, Jesus Christ, Piazzi Smyth, Diodorus Siculus, Fathers of the Church, Southern Cross, Great Britain New!
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- Three Kings, The by North-South Staff on page 55, and page 72
- Iliad and Odyssey by Homer on page 244
- Our Inheritance In The Great Pyramid by Charles Smyth on page 131
- King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 381
- City of God by St. Augustin on page 261
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