Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author |
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Common readers are only informed of the latest adjustment of the question , and
are therefore unavoidably led to believe that the distance of the sun from the
earth , ever since astronomy became entitled to the name of a science , has by ...
Common readers are only informed of the latest adjustment of the question , and
are therefore unavoidably led to believe that the distance of the sun from the
earth , ever since astronomy became entitled to the name of a science , has by ...
第 405 頁
must be 27,664 times as distant from us as the sun , in other words , at a distance
so considerable as to equal 345 million diameters of the earth . Every one must
feel on how slender a thread this conclusion is suspended . And yet , from this ...
must be 27,664 times as distant from us as the sun , in other words , at a distance
so considerable as to equal 345 million diameters of the earth . Every one must
feel on how slender a thread this conclusion is suspended . And yet , from this ...
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We have a sensation , which we call the sensation of distance . It comes to us
from our sight and our other senses . It does not come immediately by the organ
of sight . It has been proved , that the objects we see , previously to the
comparison ...
We have a sensation , which we call the sensation of distance . It comes to us
from our sight and our other senses . It does not come immediately by the organ
of sight . It has been proved , that the objects we see , previously to the
comparison ...
第 408 頁
I can see a town , a tower , a mountain at a considerable distance . Let us
suppose that the limit of my sight , so far as relates to objects on the earth , is one
hundred miles . I can travel towards such an object , and thus ascertain by means
of my ...
I can see a town , a tower , a mountain at a considerable distance . Let us
suppose that the limit of my sight , so far as relates to objects on the earth , is one
hundred miles . I can travel towards such an object , and thus ascertain by means
of my ...
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Kepler is of opinion that all the stars are at an equal distance from us , and are
fixed in the same surface or sphere . In reality the observations and the facts of
astronomy do not depend either upon the magnitudes or the distances of the ...
Kepler is of opinion that all the stars are at an equal distance from us , and are
fixed in the same surface or sphere . In reality the observations and the facts of
astronomy do not depend either upon the magnitudes or the distances of the ...
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