The Ruins Revisited

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Excerpt from The Ruins Revisited: And the World-Story Retold

Six thousand years ago our fathers were a million million miles farther away from the stars of Hercules than we are now. We are entering a region more thickly studded with stars and stellar systems than that through which they were unconsciously hurled at the rate of 160,000,000 miles a year. But we will not reach Hercules. Our journey is to be around Alcyone, and a return to this part of the stellar arena at some later era. It is asserted that this vast system to which our earth belongs was once a single nebul?; and there are nebulous stars now in sight as large as the orbit of Neptune. There are maelstroms of stellar matter called spiral nebul?; one is in Canes. Another class resemble planetary disks; one of which is seen in the Southern Cross. Several others have perfectly the appearance of rings, and are called annular nebul?. Others again are connected in pairs, like binary stars. Most of the smaller nebul? have each a nucleus enveloped in a nebulous veil, the nucleus sometimes concentrated as a star and sometimes diffused, the enveloping veil sometimes circular, sometimes elliptical, with every degree of eccentricity between a straight line and a circle. Some have great branching arms; others no regular form. The one in Andromede is visible to the naked eye. The Magellanic clouds are nebulous tracts.

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Полное название книги The Ruins Revisited
Автор
Ключевые слова общие работы по истории древнего мира, античность, древний мир, первобытное общество
Категории Образование и наука, История
ISBN 9781330394557
Издательство Книга по Требованию
Год 2015
Название транслитом the-ruins-revisited
Название с ошибочной раскладкой the ruins revisited