The New Idea of Astronomy And the Sight of the Eye

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The New Idea of Astronomy And the Sight of the Eye
D Woodwell Hunt
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What man can comprehend one billion of miles, if he has a good AND THE LIGHT OF THE EVE. 3 1 sound brain, but if a man can can span in his mind, and see with his eye, more than twenty billions of miles, I think his brain must be a little soft or weak.
The philosophers of the last century have muddled things very much.
They say the brightest fixed stars to the number of twenty are considered of the first magnitude, The next seventy-five brightest fix- ed stars are of the second magnitude.
The ne
...xt three hundred are of the third magnitude, and so on the number increases to sixteen magnitudes.
Now the man thinks he sees the fix- ed stars twenty to thirty billion miles from him. Many have written much about the eye, the organ of vision.
Sir David Brewster, in his treatise on optics, calls the eye, "That master- piece of divine mechanism. " He says, 32 NEW IDEA OF ASTRONOMY.
in praise of God, "It is a wonder work- ing artificer that constructed this organ, and we are sorry that our powers per- mit us to say so little and speak so feebly.


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