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Modern cosmogonies. E-book. Formato EPUB
Agnes M. Clerke
edizioni Books on Demand collana , 2021
Very few even of the most savage tribes are content to take the world just as it is without speculating as to how it came to be. For time has three dimensions-past, present, and future-and we can no more restrict our thoughts within one of them than we can exist corporeally in Flatland. We are, indeed, told that the...
Modern cosmogonies. E-book. Formato EPUB
Agnes M. Clerke
edizioni PubMe collana , 2021
Very few even of the most savage tribes are content to take the world just as it is without speculating as to how it came to be. For time has three dimensions—past, present, and future—and we can no more restrict our thoughts within one of them than we can exist corporeally in Flatland. We are, indeed, told that the...
The Herschels and Modern Astronomy. E-book. Formato PDF
Agnes M. Clerke
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
The chief authority for the Life of Sir William Herschel is Mrs. John Herschels "Memoir of Caroline Herschel" (London, 1876). It embodies Caroline's Journals and Recollections, the accuracy of which is above suspicion. William himself, indeed, referred to her for dates connected with his early life. The collateral...
A Popular History of Astronomy: During the Nineteenth Century. E-book. Formato PDF
Agnes M. Clerke
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
The progress of astronomy during the last hundred years has been rapid and extraordinary. In its distinctive features, moreover, the nature of that progress has been such as to lend itself with facility to untechnical treatment. To this circumstance the present volume owes its origin. It embodies an attempt to enable...