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Is it not reasonable to think that by far the greater part is solid and dark, and that this immense globe is encompassed with a thin covering of that resplendent substance from which the sun would seem to derive the whole of his vivifying heat and energy?
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Knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.
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The astronomer has become, in the highest sense of the term, a physicist; while the physicist is bound to be something of an astronomer.
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A so-called "new astronomy" has grown up by the side of the old. One aspect of its advent has been to render the science of the heavenly bodies more popular... than formerly.... It has thus become practicable to describe in simple language the most essential parts of recent astronomical discoveries.
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Agnes Mary Clerke
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Born:
February 10, 1842
Died:
January 20, 1907
(aged 64)
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Agnes Mary Clerke was an astronomer and writer, mainly in the field of astronomy. She was born in Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, and died in London.
Known for:
The System Of The Stars (1890)
Modern cosmogonies
The Herschels And Modern Astronomy (1895)
The Concise Knowledge Astronomy (1898)
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