This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...kind. One Deity, one sole creating cause. Our active cares and joint devotion draws." CHAPTER XV. On unknown Celestial Bodies--on Metoric Phenomena--and on Shooting Stars. We are not to imagine that we have yet the reach of our telescopes. All the discodiscovered the greater part of the bodies which veries which have ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...kind. One Deity, one sole creating cause. Our active cares and joint devotion draws." CHAPTER XV. On unknown Celestial Bodies--on Metoric Phenomena--and on Shooting Stars. We are not to imagine that we have yet the reach of our telescopes. All the discodiscovered the greater part of the bodies which veries which have hitherto been made in the exist in those spaces whose range lies within heavens have been owing to the light emitted by very distant orbs having been concentrated on the eye by the magnifying and spacepenetrating power of the telescope; but it is not improbable that there are numerous bodies within the circuit of the visible heavens which send forth no rays of light susceptible of being refracted or reflected to the eye by our fmest instruments Some of the largest bodies in the universe may cither be opaque globes, or so slightly illuminated that no traces of their existence can ever be perceived from the region we now occupy. The greater part, if not the whole, of the orbs which have been described in the firmament, with the exception of the planets and comets of our system, are globes which shine with their own inherent lustre, without which their existence would have been to us for ever unknown. We are not warranted to call in question the existence of any class of bodies merely because our limited organs of perception and our situation in the universe prevent us from perceiving them. We have never yet beheld the planets which doubtless circulate around other suns, although there can be. no question that such bodies really exist; and there may be opaque globes of a size incomparably larger than either planets or suns, which may serve as the centres of certain systems, or for some other important purposes to us unknown; for all that we h...
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