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Title: A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 1869-1913
Subjects: Astronomy
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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nchoate which a superficial hour so often confuses with the splendor of the sublime,but the imagination which springs from the evidences of precision and exactitude, fromthe sense of method and the bracing consciousness of law. It is a wholesome world inwhich to think and dwell. Plainness and clearness without shadow of stain!Clearness divine! Ye heavens, whose pure dark regions have no signOf languor, though so calm, and, though so great,Are yet untroubled and unpassionate;Who, though so noble, share in the worlds toil,And, though so taskd, keep free from dust and soil!I will not say that your mild deeps retainA tinge, it may be, of their silent painWho have longd deeply once, and longd in vain—•But I will rather say that you remainA world above mans head, to let him seeHow boundless might his souls horizons be,How vast, yet of what clear transparency!How it were good to abide there, and breathe free;How fair a lot to fillIs left to each man still! Matthew Arnold: A Summer Night.
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NEBULA IN CYGNUS, KNOWN AS N. G. C. 6992 From a pholograph taken at the Yerkes Observatory 1111. ©bjccts to be Seen: ITbe Stellar Morib What Are the Stars ? One will often note in some current Almanac the statement that Venus or Marsor Saturn or Jupiter is the evening or morning star. The expression, however familiar,has led to much misunderstanding. In the strict sense, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,Mercury, are not stars at all. They do not shine by their own light. They are planets,as is our Earth also, shining by the reflected light of the Sun. About the Sun, these,together with the other planets, Uranus and Neptune, revolve; and they are—with theirattendant moons—the most important factors in what is called the Solar System, i.e., thesystem of the Sun, or the system having the Sun as centre. The stars, in the stricter sense, lie far outside this system. Let us note for a momentthe comparative distance from our Earth of the very outermost of the known planetsand the very neare

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