A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
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Phil. , p. 115. i. 8o HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY. PART n. improvements, not of novel and stirring disclosures. But the science of the nature of the heavenly bodies is one only in the beginning of its career. It is full of the audacities, the inconsistencies, the imperfections, the possibilities of youth. It promises everything; it has already performed much : it will doubtless perform much more. The means at its disposal are vast, and are being daily augmented. What has so far been secured by them it... must now be our task to extricate from more doubtful surroundings and place in due order before our readers. CHAPTER II. SOLAR OBSERVATIONS AND THEORIES. THE zeal with which solar studies have been pursued during the last quarter of a century has already gone far to redeem the neglect of the two preceding ones. Since Schwabe's discovery was published in 1851, observers have multiplied, new facts have been rapidly accumulated, and the previous comparative quiescence of thought on the great subject of the constitution of the sun, has been replaced by a bewildering variety of speculations, conjectures, and more or less justifiable inferences.
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