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" The heavens afford the most sublime subject of study which can be derived from science. The magnitude and splendour of the objects, the inconceivable rapidity with which they move, and the enormous distances between them, impress the mind with some notion... "
On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences - Page 2
by Mary Somerville - 1840 - 499 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 47

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 pages
...analysis and its abstruser applications. What follows is no less pleasing in another point of view : — ' The heavens afford the most sublime subject of study...distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by which he may ascend to the starry firmament. Such...
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Mechanism of the Heavens

Mary Somerville - 1831 - 720 pages
...of the energy that maintains them in their motions with a durability to which we can see no limits. Equally conspicuous is the goodness of the great First...distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by which he may ascend to the starry firmament. Such...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 47

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 pages
...analysis and its abstruser applications. What follows is no less pleasing in another point of view : — ' The heavens afford the most sublime subject of study...distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by which he may ascend to the starry firmament. Such...
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The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and ..., Volume 16

1834 - 512 pages
...between science and our moral and religious feelings, which we can find in Mrs. Somerville's treatise. " The heavens afford the most sublime subject of study...distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by which he may ascend to the starry firmament. Such...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 59

1834 - 560 pages
...those who are capable of them." ' The heavens afford the most sublime subject of study which can bo derived from science. The magnitude and splendour...distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by which he may ascend to the starry firmament. Such...
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The Connection of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pages
...afford the most sublime subject of study which can be derived from science. The magnitude and splendor of the objects, the inconceivable rapidity with which...operation of his laws; use the globe he inhabits as abase wherewith to measure the magnitude and distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 25

1844 - 288 pages
...conspicuous is the goodness of the great First Cause, in having endowed man with faculties, by which ho can not only appreciate the magnificence of his works,...trace, with precision, the operation of his laws, use flic globe he inhabits as a base wherewith to measure the magnitude and distance of the sun and planets,...
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On the Connection of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...the most sublime subject of study which can be derived from science. The magnitude 1 A and splendor of the objects, the inconceivable rapidity with which...distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter (Note 1) of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by which he may ascend to the starry firmament....
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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1849 - 568 pages
...the cause of the disturbances, as well as of the order of nature : since every tremor it excitesin any one planet is immediately transmitted to the farthest...distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter (Note 1 ) of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by which he may ascend to the starry firmament....
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The kaleidoscope of anecdotes and aphorisms, collected by C. Sinclair

Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...objects, and prepared for these high -destinies which are appointed for all those who are capable of them. The heavens afford the most sublime subject of study...magnificence of His works, but trace, with precision, 4he operation of His laws ; use the globe He inhabits as a base wherewith to measure the magnitude...
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