Astronomy With An Opera Glass : a Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens With the Simplest of Optical Instruments
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Voltaire should rather have gone to some of the most minute of the asteroids for his giant, for under the tre- mendous gravitation of such a world as he has described Micromegas himself would have been a fit subject for micro- scopic examination. But, however much we may doubt the stature of Voltaire's visitor from Sirius, we can not doubt the soundness of the conclusion at which he arrived, after hav- ing, by an ingenious arrangement, succeeded in holding a conversation with some earthly philo...sophers under his micro- scope, namely, that these infinitely little creatures possessed a pride that was almost infinitely great. East and south of Canis Major, which, by-the-way, is said to represent one of Orion's hounds, is part of the con- stellation Argo, which stands for the ship in which Jason sailed in search of the golden fleece. The observer will find many objects of interest here, although some of them are so close to the horizon in our latitudes that much of their brill- iancy is lost.
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