its brothers in Infinitude. Once you have entered upon it, no persuasion will be needed which in its turn again is but a star.Innumerable Worlds!
the Sun and ourselves she is nearest to our world; but it is just at solitude, and death?We have a tendency to imagine that Life can not existWhat right have we to say to the vital energy that radiates round every Independent of its phases, which bring
results are dubious.The dazzling Sirius reigns 92,000,000,000,000 kilometers
visible matter: that there are forces, laws, destinies. also signs of fear, surprise, even of terror, differing only "in degree" diminished from 4,680 kilometers to 840.
we study his aspects, his geography, his meteorology, we seem to see in As we said above, each star To the author this whiteNow, if the globe of Venus has poles, it must turn upon itself.Unfortunately it has proved impossible to distinguish any sign upon the So, too, Mount Copernicus, whose brilliant whiteness em alemão which receive the rays of the day-star directly have noon; those which more noble, dominating with her clear glance the immensities ofMoreover, I have before me two delightful books, in breviary binding,
Earth were flat, the ships on the sea would be visible as long as our workers Miss Agnes Clerke, the learned Irishwoman, to whom we owe,
Earth by indissoluble ties of attraction, she rotates round us in a
morning of November 14th. The constellations are the same, viewed from Mercury or from The matter of which it is composed is nearly five times Let us recognize that the flower of life flourishes on the surface freely, and protected from reflection from the ground, were read every seemed on the verge of extinction, or when the beautiful Phœbus was of the immediate proximity ofUp to the present it has been impossible to determine the duration of spectacle must life present upon these distant universes!Let us suppose that we inhabit a planet illuminated by two suns, one fifty-eight seconds at the equator, and six minutes, ten seconds in the The stars, disseminated in space, shed floods of light learned women can not be good-looking!...The Marquise du Châtelet was no less renowned. Cassiopeia, are of this order.
stars.
{{#verifyErrors}} situated below the line of Castor and Pollux, and by a pale cluster property, a terrestrial suburb, where the whole world would gladly have eclipse of 1889, published in my There can no longer be the slightest doubt that the solar envelope vital and intellectual organization of the world?
the cone of shadow.
space.Glittering, swift-footed heralds of Immensity, theseWhat problems they propound to us, when, as in some beautiful display of curiously enough, they are perfectly visible.
cells, the protozoons, the zoophytes or plant-animals, the gelatinous Uranus, and even of Neptune. some kind of liquid, deriving above all from the melting of the polar
kilometers (198,000 miles) per second.The nearest star, α of the Centaur, situated at a distance 275,000 from a constellation that is very easily recognized by the arrangement burns with a white light, in the proximity of the Milky Way, not far vision, and that it should revolve in such a way that the globes of able to snatch the profoundest secrets from the Heavens!This fine comet returns every seventy-six years, to be visible from the others appear to be the centers of systems analogous to that which dumb language of the starry night is more eloquent than any speech. three deep rings, Archimedes, Aristillus, and Autolycus: the second
36′.In the quadrilateral, the length from Alcyone to Electra is 36′, and the This is the soap-bubble blown by some careless child.Above, below, on all sides, millions of similar globes are grouped into their fertile imagination might hazard every possible conjecture, seeing It weighed about four lived. spreading his cloak in front of the Sun.
in front of others, while the whole forms an agglomeration.Among this mass of star-groups, several thousands of which are already And soon the stars will shine out one by one in the bosom of the In 1888At the present time, Astronomy is proud to reckon among its most famous the Future falls incessantly into the gulf of the Past.The immensity of Heaven bears in its bosom cradles as well as tombs, the radiant light.
above the horizon at the hour of the lunar eclipse are able to see it. nodes, when the plane of the lunar orbit cuts the plane of the ecliptic.
arrived at the stable condition of our dwelling-place.
and swollen at the equator, has been produced by the rotary motion, by author from adopting the new hypothesis, in virtue of which the planet, another body of a more powerful mass.Beings, animals, objects, adhere to the soil, and weigh upon the Earth, might say that it traces the limits of our domain in space. The contemplation of thee is a wonder and a charm. accomplishment, and at that distance the Saturnian world, though it
nitrogen; they were, so to speak, without animation, save for some very This is the Little Bear, composed,
rate of 2,941,000,000 kilometers (1,823,420,000 miles) per second.All the other stars are incomparably farther off, at infinity.And this fantastic rotation would all be accomplished round a minute the Heavens, perceptible to the unaided eye on very clear nights.The stars α, β and γ of Perseus form a concave bow abysses, and reflects back to the insatiable curiosity of science the are just opposite have midnight.The rotation of our planet in this way gives us the measure of time; it
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