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" We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration. "
Fourteen Weeks Course in Descriptive Astronomy - Page 192
by Joel Dorman Steele - 1876 - 336 pages
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The gallery of nature: a tour through creation, Volume 28

Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
..." it has done more, it has given us the probable prospect of the discovery of another. We see it ns Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its...far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." This striking paragraph, as subsequently explained,...
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Triumphs of the Bible: With the Testimony of Science to Its Truth

Henry Tullidge - Apologetics - 1863 - 454 pages
...our list.1 It has done more — it has given us the probable prospect of the discovery of another. We see it, as Columbus saw America from the shores...Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration." This...
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 53

Bible - 1896 - 806 pages
...an ordinary sweeping telescope." September 10, 1846, Sir John Herschel says: "We see the new planet as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." September 18, the distinguished astronomer Leverrier,...
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The Heavens: An Illustrated Handbook of Popular Astronomy

Amédée Guillemin - Astronomy - 1867 - 588 pages
...in September, 1846, the new planet had fairly been grappled. We find Sir John Herschcl remarking : " We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration." On the 29th July, 1846, the Equatorial at Cambridge was first...
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The Heavens: An Illustrated Handbook of Popular Astronomy

Amédée Guillemin - Astronomy - 1871 - 464 pages
...in September, 1846, the new planet had fairly been grappled. We find Sir John Herschel remarking : ' We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration.' On the 29th of July, 1846, the Equatorial at Cambridge was...
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Elementary Lessons in Astronomy

Sir Norman Lockyer - Astronomy - 1871 - 464 pages
...fairly been grappled- We find Sir John Herschel remarking, " We see it as Columbus saw America trom the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt...far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration." On the 29111 July, 1846, the large telescope of the Cambridge...
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The Heavens, an Illus. Handbook of Popular Astronomy

Amédée Guillemin - Astronomy - 1872 - 460 pages
...September, 1846, the new planet had fairly been grappled. "We find Sir John Herschel remarking : ' We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration.' On the 29th of July, 1S46, the Equatorial at Cambridge was...
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A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume 1

Augustus De Morgan - Circle-squaring - 1872 - 552 pages
...adding, " it has done more, — it has given us the probable prospect of the discovery of another. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." — These expressions are not reported in any of...
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The Juvenile instructor and companion, Volumes 24-25

Young people - 1873 - 680 pages
...astronomers, and all were eager to have the honour of finding the new planet. Sir John flerschel remarked, ' We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration. But while observations were being couducted in England, the...
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The heavens and the earth; or, Familiar illustrations of astronomy

Thomas Milner - 1873 - 336 pages
...to us the new planet Astrsea : it has done more, it has given tis the probable prospect of another. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration." Not a single telescope abroad had hitherto been directed...
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