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15636	Have we at length reached the limit in size?
15636	What will be the fourth advance, and how will it be brought about?
15636	Would a ship a thousand feet long always sink one of five hundred feet?
16767	But where?
16767	One could almost imagine that there was a strange prophetic meaning in the words which have been translated"Canst thou loose the bands of Orion?"
16767	What causes an object to become invisible as its distance increases?
16767	What is this marvellous light- cloud?
58810	15 7?
58810	Copper?
58810	How, then, are we to reconcile this common motion with the absence of all material connection?
58810	Oxygen b 4 4?
19395	And if such stages can be detected, do they afford indications of the gradual diminution in volume which Laplace imagined the sun to experience?
19395	Are they comparable in size with the sun?
19395	Do they occur in all stages of development, from infancy to old age?
19395	How, then, may we hope to measure their diameters?
36741	Tell me,says she, eagerly,"are they, too, inhabited like the planets, or are they not peopled?
36741	And can any one believe that there are no eyes out yonder to receive, and no intelligence to interpret that message?
36741	But there were other small stars in the field, and, supposing I had not been certain which was Uranus, how could I have recognized it?
36741	Could he save her?
36741	In short, what can we make of them?"
36741	In truth, are they not almost annihilated by the very expression which you are obliged to use in speaking of them?
36741	Life, does it exist beyond the earth?
36741	Or who would not desire to visit them if he could?
36741	What purposes they subserve in the economy of the universe, who shall declare?
40439	But is it equally irresistible when applied to Plato and to Plato''s time?
40439	IF AFFIRMED OR IMPLIED, IN WHAT SENSE?
40439	Is it not plain, upon this supposition, that the kosmos would come to a standstill, and that its rotation would cease altogether?
40439	WHAT IS THE COSMICAL FUNCTION WHICH PLATO ASSIGNS TO THE EARTH IN THE TIMÆUS?
40439	WHETHER THE DOCTRINE OF THE EARTH''S ROTATION IS AFFIRMED OR IMPLIED IN THE PLATONIC TIMÆUS?
37711	Wostow nat wel the olde clerkes sawe, That''who shal yeve a lover any lawe?'' 37711 Allas, fro whennes may this thing procede? 37711 And was it not Arcite''s duty and solemn pledge to help and not hinder him in his love? 37711 Did he not love the beautiful lady first and trust his secret to his cousin and sworn brother? 37711 How are both promises to be fulfilled? 37711 How mightestow for reuthe me bigyle? 37711 I, Nature, Thus can I forme and peynte a creature, Whan that me list; who can me countrefete? 37711 Is ther no grace, and shall I thus be spilt? 37711 Shal thus Criseyde awey, for that thou wilt? 37711 The question is simply, can the moon move from the 2nd degree of Taurus to the 1st of Cancer( through 59 degrees) in four days? 37711 What have I doon, what have I thus a- gilt? 37711 how maystow in thyn herte finde To been to me thus cruel and unkinde? 37711 what mayst thou seyn, That in the paleys of thy disturbaunce Art left behinde, in peril to be sleyn? 2298 Can the place of the star be determined more accurately by the latter method than it can when the telescope is dispensed with? 2298 Has not M. Palisa, for instance, discovered about eighty of such objects, and are there not hundreds of them known nowadays?
2298	He appeals to the practical utility of the science, for what civilised nation could exist without having the means of measuring time?
2298	How was he to show that the sun actually did set earlier at Alexandria than it would in a city which lay a hundred miles to the west?
2298	I can imagine some one will say,"Oh, there was nothing so wonderful in that; are not planets always being discovered?
2298	If the father was so intensely gratified on this occasion, what would his feelings have been could he have lived to witness his son''s future career?
2298	On another occasion his father is said to have asked the boy,''What sort of things, do you think, are most alike?''
2298	The father replied, after the Socratic method, by putting another question:''And what do you yourself suppose is the oldest of all things?''
2298	The moon is certainly attracted to the earth, and yet the moon does not fall down; how is this to be accounted for?
2298	Would it not fall?
2298	You will not, I am sure, be hurt when I tell you that the workmanship( what else could be expected from so young a writer?)
48218	But why should catalogues be repeated? 48218 0.14 Venus 0.89 4.94 0.82 13.19 1.91 23 21 23(?) 48218 0.60 Neptune 0.20 1.11 0.89 14.31 0.001(?) 48218 0.76 Earth 1.00 5.55 1.00 16.08 1.00 23 56 4 0.50(?) 48218 12:Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place?"
48218	32:"Canst thou lead forth the Signs of the Zodiac in their season, or canst thou guide the Bear with her train?"
48218	And what is the shape of the Earth?
48218	But, once made, a number of questions must have intruded themselves:"What are these lights?
48218	How far are they off?"
48218	Moon 0.61 3.39 0.17 2.73 1.00 27 7 43 0.17 d. h. m. s. Mercury 0.85 4.72 0.43 6.91 6.67 88(?)
48218	What conceivable use can be served by catalogues of 30 millions or even of 3000 stars?"
48218	What is the good of astronomy?
48218	When once the position of a star has been observed, why trouble to observe it again?
48218	Where are they?
48218	Will not the record serve in perpetuity?"
48218	{ 41} But of what use was all this effort?
48218	{ 82} The question naturally arises,"Why so many stars?
48218	{ 90} And how vast may that structure be-- how far is it from wall to wall?
18431	After all, why should the intensity of the solar radiation upon Venus be regarded as inimical to life?
18431	And now again, what of life in such a world as that?
18431	But why, it may be asked, should it be assumed that the moon ever had things which it does not now possess?
18431	How great would that velocity have to be?
18431	How, then, do intellectual creatures in the world of Venus take wing when they choose?
18431	I asked myself,"How in the world can I ever get back there again?"
18431	In other words, may not Saturn be, exteriorly, a globe of dust instead of a globe of vapor?
18431	The reader may ask:"Why so readily accept Schiaparelli''s conclusions with regard to Mercury while rejecting them in the case of Venus?"
18431	What are 240,000 miles in comparison with the distances of the stars, or even with the distances of the planets?
18431	What are the polar caps if they are not snow?
18431	What is Electricity?
18431	What would be the mental effects of perpetual night upon a race of intelligent creatures doomed to that condition?
16227	Am I told that it will, probably, cost half a million?
16227	And may we not, then, conclude that_ there is nothing truly practical which is not the consequence of an antecedent ideal_?
16227	Are not these results, the highest efforts of science, also of the greatest practical utility?
16227	Are they not those who are engaged most laboriously and successfully in investigating the great laws?
16227	It happened to him, as Mr. Agassiz had said: after crossing the ocean first, the first thing he asked was,"Which is the way to Albany?"
16227	Shall he turn back, like Verazzano, or ascend the stream?
16227	They have made this city famous; and now, when the scientific geologist lands on your shore, his first question is,"Which is the way to Albany?
16227	WHAT IS AN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY?
16227	Who, then, are the truly practical men of our age?
16227	Why should we wish to obtain this knowledge?
28752	But submerged by what?
28752	But what was the meaning of all this?
28752	But what were the circumstances of the collision?
28752	CHAPTER X ARE THERE PLANETS AMONG THE STARS?
28752	CHAPTER X ARE THERE PLANETS AMONG THE STARS?
28752	How did that bright star fall in with its black neighbors?
28752	If not, why do the single stars so enormously outnumber the double ones?
28752	Is it a metallic vein, or is it volcanic lava or ash?
28752	Is it not more probable that both methods have been in operation, and that, in fact, the ring method has operated more frequently than the other?
28752	Is not he who holds thee in his hand made king and lord of the works of God?"
28752	Or were they created together?
28752	THE PLANETS: Are there planets among the stars?
28752	Was the globe of the moon once split open along this line?
28752	Which way shall we look?
28752	Why do they congregate thus?
28752	[ 3][ 3] Is the slight green tint perceptible in Sirius variable?
28434	( 2) What they are?
28434	( 3) What they are like?
28434	( 4) Why they are?
28434	Admiral Smyth says that this noble passage is more correctly rendered as follows: Canst thou bind the delightful teemings of Cheemah?
28434	Are the two lesser stars consumed after the manner of the solar spots?
28434	But wherefore all night long shine these?
28434	Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season?
28434	Canst thou draw forth Mazzaroth in his season Or Ayeesh and his sons canst thou guide?
28434	For what God, after better, worse would build?
28434	For what purpose do those thousands of clustering orbs shine?
28434	Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his own children?
28434	Have they vanished and suddenly fled?
28434	He then asks the following questions, and replies to them himself:( 1) Whether they exist?
28434	Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven?
28434	Or hear''st thou rather, pure Ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell?
28434	Or of the Eternal co- eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed?
28434	Or the contractions of Chesil canst thou open?
28434	Or were the appearances, indeed, illusion or fraud, with which the glasses have so long deceived me, as well as many others to whom I have shown them?
28434	Shall we adventure into these deeper retirements?
28434	What then was to be done?
28434	Who can tell?
28434	canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
28434	or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
28247	A fairly complete preliminary answer to the question, What are the stars made of?
28247	Above all, what was its function in the cosmos?
28247	But was the change real or illusory-- a plausible, but deceptive inference from insecure data?
28247	Can these two facts be in any way related?
28247	Has it ever been one of leading importance, or has its influence always been, as it now is, subordinate, almost negligible?
28247	How has it fared with Laplace''s sketch of the origin of the world?
28247	In other words, is there any conceivable way by which tidal influence could prevent or impede the throwingoff of secondary bodies?
28247	Is any translation of them into physical fact possible?
28247	It seeks to know what the heavenly bodies are in themselves, leaving the How?
28247	Peut- il être habité?_ and answering the question in the affirmative.]
28247	Should it"be compared to the coruscation of the electric fluid in the aurora borealis?
28247	The first vital issue for each of them was-- satellites or no satellites?
28247	The order of seniority of the planets is now no easier to determine than the"Who first, who last?"
28247	The question at once arises: What part has it played in the development of the solar system?
28247	The question had often suggested itself, and was a natural one to ask, whether the corona sympathises with the general condition of the sun?
28247	The_ cui bono?_ however, began to be agitated.
28247	Were they to be governors as well as governed, or should they revolve in sterile isolation throughout the æons of their future existence?
28247	What was its antecedent condition?
28247	What was its nature?
28247	Why should we hesitate to admit that the bodies we call"simple"do likewise at degrees of heat_ without_ the range of our resources?
28247	[ 1179] What follows?
28247	[ 1272] Now what is the meaning of these three types?
28247	[ 955] What was to be done with the remaining half?
28247	[ Footnote 431: As late as 1866 an elaborate treatise in its support was written by F. Coyteux, entitled_ Qu''est- ce que le Soleil?
28247	and the Wherefore?
28247	or to the more magnificent cone of the zodiacal light?"
28247	whether, either in shape or brilliancy, it varies with the progress of the sun- spot period?
28570	Could we dream of wars and carnage, craft and madness, lust and spite, Roaring London, raving Paris, in that point of peaceful light?
28570	And what then?
28570	Are we at the centre, or anywhere near the centre, or where?
28570	But does the mere stating of this fact convey anything?
28570	But first of all, let us see what ground we have, if any, for asserting that the earth rotates at all?
28570	But what is a billion?
28570	Compared with one of our years what a long time does an Uranian, or Neptunian,"year"seem?
28570	For instance, they will say:--"What is the use of my reading anything about the subject?
28570	Had Saturn devoured his own children?
28570	Is it possible then to make an estimate of the extent of this stellar system?
28570	Is there any stock size, any pattern according to which they may be judged?
28570	Of what form then are their paths, or_ orbits_, as these are called?
28570	Of what shape then are these bodies?
28570	On what then can we ground such an assumption?
28570	On what, for instance, did the solid earth rest, and what prevented the vaulted heaven from falling in upon men and crushing them out of existence?
28570	Shall we then start our imaginary express train once more, and send it out towards the nearest of the stars?
28570	Was some demon mocking him?
28570	What is a million?
28570	What position, by the way, do we occupy in this mighty maze?
28570	What, indeed, had become of the attendant orbs?
28570	Whence then comes the light which illumines it, since it clearly can not come from the sun?
28570	Why then require a"force"to make them fall?
28570	must hate and death return?
28570	must men kill and die?
45112	And who are they, all unheard and unseen-- O who are they, whose blessèd feet Pass over that highway smooth and sheen?
45112	Are these possibly suns that are going through the process of forming their planetary systems?
45112	Are they not those whom here we miss In the ways and the days that are vacant below?
45112	As the dust of that Street their footfalls kiss Does it not brighter and brighter grow?"
45112	By whose abode Does the Winter Street in its windings go?
45112	Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"
45112	Deimos| 13| 14,650| 10?
45112	Does oxygen not exist in the surface rocks of the moon as well?
45112	I THE CONSTELLATIONS"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades Or loose the bands of Orion?
45112	Neptune| 32,932| 16.72| 85| 1.09| 0.87| 14| 73|?
45112	Phobos| 14| 5,850| 10?
45112	Phoebe| 17| 8,000,000| 200?
45112	Themis| 17| 906,000|?
45112	Venus| 7,575|.807|.92| 4.85?
45112	What pilgrims travel the Winter Street?
45112	Why not in the moon''s surface crust as well?
45112	With air and water both lacking and such extremes of temperature existing why should we seriously consider the question of life on the moon?
45112	XXI IS THE MOON A DEAD WORLD?
45112	| 0.31?
45112	| 0.85| 6.6| 59|?
45112	| 1 day, 6 hours,| Asaph Hall| 1877|||| 17 minutes|| JUPITER|||||| v.| 13| 112,500| 100?
45112	| 19| 18,900,000| 20?
45112	| 2.2| 7|88 d.?
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14565	17th of July( 17th to the 26th of July?).
14565	Are these currents, as in Seebeck''s experiments, thermo- magnetic, and excited directly from unequal distribution of heat?
14565	But whence comes this form, which was first recognized by Schreiber as characteristic of the''severed''part of a rotating planetary body?
14565	Dare we hazard a conjecture on that which can not be an object of actual geognostic observation?
14565	Do gaseous fluids rise from the interior of the earth, and mix with the atmosphere?
14565	Indeed how can any facts of one observer in one place falsify the facts of another observer in another place?
14565	Must not these lie in deep valleys?
14565	Must we suppose that changes are actually in progress in the nebulous ring?
14565	On what did these so- called''most ancient''formations rest, if gneiss and mica schist must be regarded as changed sedimentary strata?
14565	When the questions are asked, what is it that burns in the volcano?
14565	Where, in this case, are we to seek the concealed channels by which the Plutonic action is conveyed?
14565	Why should the crust of the Earth have lost its property of being elevated in the ridges?
14565	and how much the mean annual temperature of Canada and the United States is lower than that of corresponding latitudes in Europe?
14565	multo clarius apparet, non tam reparandorum animalium causa, quam figurandarum variarum gentium(?)
14565	or are these meteorological processes the action of atmospheric electricity disturbed by the earthquake?
14565	or should we not rather regard them as induced by the position of the Sun and by solar heat?
14565	what excites the heat, fuses together earths and metals, and imparts to lava currents of thick layers a degree of heat that lasts for many years?
29031	L''histoire doit conserver à jamais la réponse de ce prince à un étranger célèbre[ LALANDE?] 29031 ''Can anything be grander?'' 29031 ''What chance have you,''said I,''to follow this man?'' 29031 Are all other stars constant in brightness? 29031 Does any one suppose thata new and singular star"like this would have been once viewed and then forgotten?
29031	He says the king exclaimed:"Ne vaut- il pas mieux employer son argent à cela qu''à faire tuer des hommes?"
29031	How then can we account for one of the four hundred stars like B placed so close to one of the fifty like A?
29031	London, 1780(?).
29031	Medallion, 1785(?).
29031	On another occasion the father asked his son,"What sort of things do you think are most alike?"
29031	One doubtful point remains: are the stars scattered all through space?
29031	The father replied, after the Socratic manner,"And what do you suppose is the oldest of all things?"
29031	Walking with his father, he asked him"What was the oldest of all things?"
29031	Was the force that these distant pairs of suns obeyed, the force of gravitation?
29031	What may his name be?
29031	Who can say but your new star, which exceeds_ Saturn_ in its distance from the sun, may exceed him as much in magnificence of attendance?
29031	Why not, for instance, call them_ Concentric Comets_, or_ Planetary Comets_, or_ Cometary Planets_?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Engraver_,----?
29031	_ Engraver_,----?
29031	_ Engraver_,----?
29031	_ Engraver_,----?
29031	_ Engraver_,----?
29031	_ Engraver_,----?
29031	or, if a single term must be found, why may we not coin such a phrase as_ Planetoid_ or_ Cometoid_?"
40240	O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms that Nature to her votary yields? 40240 ''Have the stars,''says he,''exercised any influence here? 40240 At what height above the earth did they_ disappear_? 40240 But if the laws of Nature are not the same there as here, what becomes of his analogy? 40240 But what force is that which gave to them this original impulse, and impressed upon them such a tendency to move forward in a straight line? 40240 But, if these are the causes, how do they act? 40240 By what_ force_ were the meteors drawn or impelled towards the earth? 40240 Finally, what_ relations_ did the source from which they emanated sustain to our earth? 40240 In what_ directions_ did they move? 40240 Is it not possible that these changes may go on without limit, and end in the complete subversion and ruin of the system? 40240 Is that explanation the true one, which I have elsewhere given? 40240 Of what_ size_ were the larger varieties? 40240 One of them preached publicly against him, taking for his text, the passage,Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye here gazing up into heaven?"
40240	The principal questions involved in the inquiry were the following:--Was the_ origin_ of the meteors within the atmosphere, or beyond it?
40240	Was it a collection of nebulous, or cometary matter, which the earth encountered in its annual progress?
40240	Was it of the nature of a satellite, or terrestrial comet, that revolves around the earth as its centre of motion?
40240	We now arrive at the final inquiry,_ what relations did the body which afforded the meteoric shower sustain to the earth_?
40240	What was the cause of their_ light_ and_ heat_?
40240	What was the nature of the_ luminous trains_ which sometimes remained behind?
40240	What was the_ height_ of the place above the surface of the earth?
40240	What, then, is time?
40240	What, then, ought to be the respective appearances of mountains, valleys, and deep craters, or caverns, in the moon?
40240	Why are you not here?
40240	Why we do not rather take the distance of the star from the equinoctial, at once?
40240	Why, then, do the sun and moon appear so much larger when near the horizon?
40240	With what_ velocity_?
40240	You will ask, why we take this indirect method of finding the declination?
40240	or was it a comet, which chanced at this time to be pursuing its path along with the earth, around their common centre of motion?
6630	And how as to gravitation?
6630	And then, what hitherto untried power of thought will enable us to comprehend the meaning of it all?
6630	And what can have been the cause of this furious outbreak of volcanic forces on the moon?
6630	Another question arises: What is the thickness of the hedge of stars through which the holes penetrate?
6630	Are they really windows in the star- walls of the universe?
6630	But a great difficulty yet remains: How to explain the seemingly miraculous powers of the supposed engineers?
6630	But back of any speculation of this kind lies the problem, at present insoluble: How could the explosion be produced?
6630	But does it continue on indefinitely in outer space?
6630	But does the influence extend further, and directly affect the weather and the seasons as well as the magnetic elements of the earth?
6630	But still the question recurs: How is the influence transmitted?
6630	Could anything be more terrible than the thought of an isolated universe?
6630	How were those diamonds formed?
6630	If science is discretely silent about these things, what can the more venturesome and less responsible imagination suggest?
6630	If they were conflagrations, how many million worlds like ours were required to feed their blaze?
6630	In other words, is the Milky Way round in section like a rope, or flat and thin like a ribbon?
6630	Is the depth of the openings proportionate to their width?
6630	It must be confessed at once that there is no confirmation of the Laplacean hypothesis here; but what hypothesis will fit the facts?
6630	It seems as empty as a vacuum, but is it really so?
6630	Let it be assumed, then, that the sun does emit them; what happens next?
6630	The question is, Whence comes this light?
6630	The question, then, arises: Are there any of the others which are inhabited or habitable?
6630	The same question rises to the lips of every observer: How can they possibly have been brought into such a situation?
6630	This seems at first a startling suggestion; but, after all, why should their not be dark nebulæ as well as visible ones?
6630	Tycho was not in all respects free from the superstitions of his time-- and who is?
6630	What geologist would not wish to try his hammer on those rocks with their stony pages of fossilized history?
6630	What is the first thing that strikes the mind?
6630	What strange constellations shone down upon our globe when its masters of life were the monstrous beasts of the`` Age of Reptiles''''?
6630	Whence have we come, and whither do we go?
6630	Where was our little planet when it emerged out of the clouds of chaos?
6630	Where was the sun when his`` thunder march''''began?
6630	Why, with so many concurrent circumstances to support the hypothesis, should we not regard Mars as an inhabited globe?
6630	Would a huge`` runaway sun,''''like Arcturus, for instance, make such an opening if it should pass like a projectile through the Milky Way?
36495	I will ask the bards,he says in his_ Hymn of the World_,"and why will not the bards answer me?
36495	What does this apparition presage?
36495	What misfortune then do you suppose,said he,"is presaged by the body that hides the sun, which differs from this in nothing but being larger?"
36495	Another example may be given in his answer to the question, Why must the stars move round the earth?
36495	But to what does the earth owe its germs and its species?
36495	But what can serve for its support?
36495	Does the zodiac then turn in this way?
36495	He sent for the wretched prophet, gave him a severe reprimand, and then asked him the question,"You, who know everything, when will_ you_ die?"
36495	I will ask of them what sustains the earth, since having no support it does not fall?
36495	If such were the ideas entertained amongst the most enlightened nations, what may we expect among those who were less advanced?
36495	In what way was the primitive year regulated?
36495	Indeed, since the world began, the world will doubtless end, and astronomers are still asked how could it be brought about?
36495	Instead of asking What"o''clock"is it?
36495	Is it solid?
36495	Is the world a great traveller?
36495	It is very obvious to ask on this--_Why_ should there be a_ catastrophe_?
36495	Now if there were a man created on that earth, would there be such a thing as"time"for him?
36495	Now what is this great year or cycle of 600 years?
36495	Now when was this date?
36495	Now, how had the Druids made an observation of this kind?
36495	Oh, star- eyed science, hast thou wandered there To waft us home the message of despair?"
36495	Under what form did Druidical science represent the universe?
36495	What time should we find there?
36495	When they saw a ship represented, what more suitable than to name it the ship Argo?
36495	and why should not the centre of gravity return_ gradually_ as it was gradually displaced?
36495	or gaseous?
36495	or if it falls which way does it go?
36495	or liquid?
36495	the Greeks would say,"What star is passing?"
36495	was it a solar or a sidereal year?
33337	Now, I should be glad to ask you, in the first place, whether you could make such an examination? 33337 Are we so sure yet of a complete knowledge of all the forces at work as to exclude the chance of a_ vera causa_ for the second?
33337	Are your reductions of the planetary observations so far advanced that you could furnish these data?
33337	As we might expect an eccentricity[ inclination?]
33337	But did the planet"swim into his ken"?
33337	But is the romance necessarily gone?
33337	But now, would Saturn necessarily appear to the distant observer to be farther away from the sun than the earth was?
33337	But perhaps this was not so?
33337	Have you ever read Montaigne''s essay''Of Glory''?
33337	If another Keats could arise and know the facts, could he not coin a newer and a truer phrase for us which would still sound as sweetly in our ears?
33337	If the rest of the dial were obliterated, and only this small arc left, would he feel much confidence in restoring the obliterated portion?
33337	May we look for a few moments at what he himself says in the preface to his great work?
33337	Perhaps, on the contrary, the atmosphere was deformed by the motion of the earth, streaming out behind her like the smoke of a moving engine?
33337	Shall we finish one piece of work now well under way, or shall we attend to something more novel and more attractive?
33337	That may be true to- day, but who will be bold enough to say that it will be true to- morrow?
33337	The velocity of light, for instance, may be measured by a terrestrial experiment; was there anything wrong in the apparatus?
33337	Then, again, the question, What observatories should take part in the work?
33337	Was it possible to calculate the orbit from such slender material?
33337	Was there no reaction upon Uranus himself?
33337	Was there, then, after all, some effect of the earth''s atmosphere which had been overlooked?
33337	What did the Astronomer Royal say?"
33337	What is your opinion on the subject?
33337	What, then, was the cause of this quite unforeseen behaviour on the part of the star?
33337	Which is the true scientific attitude, to be alive to them all, or to concentrate attention upon one?
33337	Would any other observer have noticed the difference at all?
33337	[ Sidenote: A new star?]
33337	[ Sidenote: Did the nebula cause the outburst?]
33337	[ Sidenote: Nutation?]
33337	[ Sidenote: Was Nova Geminorum previously shining faintly?]
33337	and is the request one which you have any objection to comply with?
33337	and, after a year had passed, required to be tracked out in a region of the sky far removed from its original position?
33337	how did you get on?
35744	[ 8] But if the heavens were solid, how could the brief presence of a comet be explained? 35744 ( FEBRUARY, 1619)(_ Thomæ Fieni Epistolica Quæstio_: An verum sit, coelum moveri et terram quiescere? 35744 ), as Diogenes Laërtius claims,[5] a long line of Greek thinkers including Plato( 428?-347? 35744 19( Dedication 1604, Louvain),( IV, 947);Vides deliria, quomodo aliter appellent?"]
35744	: What are these absurdities?
35744	: What arguments do they rely on who hold that the earth is revolved and that the sun forsooth is still?
35744	And who knoweth whether a hundred yeares hence a third opinion will arise which happily shall overthrow these two præcedent?"
35744	Beginning with the followers of Thales or perhaps Parmenides(?-500 B.C.
35744	But why such diversity?
35744	By what arguments then can it be proved there are ten spheres?
35744	Can not wicked angels be defined without privation since they are corporeal essences?
35744	Does it not also concern Physics to discuss those things that lie outside the universe?
35744	Ejusdem Thomæ Fieni Epistolica quæstio, An Verum sit Coelum moveri, et Terram quiescere?_ London, 1655.
35744	Everything loose on the earth seeks its rest on the earth, why should not the whole earth itself be at rest?
35744	FINIS APPENDIX D. A TRANSLATION OF A LETTER BY THOMAS FEYENS ON THE QUESTION: IS IT TRUE THAT THE HEAVENS ARE MOVED AND THE EARTH IS AT REST?
35744	For what should move the earth?
35744	He and at least one of the members of his school, Eudoxus( 409?-356?
35744	How could that be explained if the sun were stationary?
35744	How many spheres are there?
35744	How widespread among the people generally did this theory become in the years immediately following the publication of the_ De Revolutionibus_?
35744	Is it possible that after a lapse of time as considerable as this, we have nothing more than a rumor of such an event?
35744	Is there some medium between God and the angels which shares in the nature of both?
35744	Montaigne[198] was characteristically indifferent:"What shall we reape by it, but only that we neede not care which of the two it be?
35744	Nor is it moved by another body; for by what is it moved?
35744	That they have been condemned a year or two ago by our Holy Father, Pope Paul V?
35744	What do you call fixed stars?
35744	What should one do with such a variety of opinions?
35744	What then in corporeal nature is closest to God?
35744	What then?
35744	What was the state of astronomy in the century of Copernicus''s birth?
35744	Why is the one less noble than the other?
35744	Why so?
35744	Why then are not eleven spheres counted?
35744	Why then was the heliocentric theory not definitely accepted?
35744	[ 4] According to Plutarch, though Thales( 640?-546?
35744	and later the Stoics believed the earth to be spherical in form, Anaximander( 610- 546?
35744	of Interpretation_: Preface, xviii:"Who,"asks Calvin,"will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?"]
44167	''Apparent time or mean time?''
44167	''Can you tell me the true time?''
44167	''Do we not know the moon''s orbit sufficiently well, especially since the discovery of gravitation?''
44167	''Do you mean solar or sidereal time?''
44167	''Indeed; and what does he do there?''
44167	''Jock,''said one of them to the other,''d''ye ken whaur ye are?''
44167	''Local time or standard time?''
44167	''Oh-- er-- why-- he_ observes_, do n''t you know?''
44167	''What followed, why recall?
44167	''Who is that?''
44167	A stickler for exactitude might reply,''What kind of time do you mean?''
44167	And when he was asked Who could, or who should do it?
44167	But a difficulty at once confronts us-- Where can we fix our''right ascension nought''?
44167	But they are not always so, and the inquiry,''What makes them to differ?''
44167	By what agency are they made to glow so as to be visible to us here?
44167	Does it not seem that there is something in the mind of man that impels him to seek after knowledge-- truly-- for its own sake?
44167	Gravitation is the bond of the solar system; is it also the bond of the Universe?
44167	How are these weird masses of gas retained in such complex form over distances which must be reckoned by millions of millions of miles?
44167	If it be asked,''What is the use of this ever- increasing refinement of observation?''
44167	It may be asked, What is the use of reading the barometer and thermometer?
44167	It might be asked, What reason is there for a foreign observer to come over to England for such a purpose?
44167	The quaintest answer that I ever received in an examination was in reply to the question,''What is meant by magnetic inclination and declination?''
44167	They obey the law of gravitation so far as our sight can follow them, but what happens to them beyond?
44167	What conceivable condition threads together suns on a line of nebula?
44167	What could be done?
44167	What is the cause of these mysterious solar spots?
44167	What star has the right to be considered the Greenwich of the sky?
44167	What universes are here in the making, or perhaps it may be falling into ruin and decay?
44167	Why, then, were these pages compiled?
44167	Would it not be sufficient for the clock signals to be exchanged?
44167	_ It gives the time to the world._ There are few questions more frequently put than,''What time is it?''
44167	and have they any traceable connection with the fitful vagaries of earthly weather?
45356	What could it be? 45356 And again:Mais comment l''atmosphère solaire a- t- elle déterminé les mouvements de rotation et de révolution des planètes et des satellites?
45356	And if we compare 30 yards with M. Faye''s 3000, where are we?
45356	And what would a zero of no density be?
45356	And what would remain in it to carry it over the debatable land between the sun and a distant neighbour?
45356	And who can tell how many of these erratic bodies Jupiter and Mars may have captured already?
45356	Are we to suppose that the ether was in part removed by the absorbents?
45356	But how are we to find out what is the distance between these two surfaces?
45356	But the practicability?
45356	But why should there be a zero point or place of no density?
45356	By what means?
45356	Can anyone say that Science has been truly scientific, without ever incurring in error, from the beginning of history up to the present day?
45356	Given a nebula such as the one we are dealing with of 6,600,000,000 miles in diameter, where would condensation be most active?
45356	How are we to comprehend these two facts?
45356	How are we to compress the everlasting hills into one- fourth or one- fifth of their volume?
45356	How, then, if the nebula consisted merely of gaseous matter, would we see it shining on the far distant heavens?
45356	If this be so in reality, we may ask: How can the law of attraction produce a sphere out of a lens- shaped mass of rotating vaporous or liquid matter?
45356	Is his something any better?
45356	Let us ask here: Does not all this seem to prove that electricity is a carried, not a carrying, agent?
45356	Now we ask, Why should part of these zones be dark?
45356	Now, what are we to think?
45356	One thing leads to another, and we have again to repeat our question-- What is a gas?
45356	Or, are we to prohibit the ether from being present anywhere, except where it suits us?
45356	The first and most probable idea that occurs is that it may be some lighter gas mixed with the pure(?)
45356	The general belief regarding the ether has been, ever since it was invented, that it is a substance of some kind( imponderable and impalpable?)
45356	What has the electricity done for us in this experiment?
45356	What then shall we say?
45356	What velocity would it have when it left the sun?
45356	Where could such enormous masses of matter, as those thrown out, come from at only a few miles from the surface?
45356	Where did the light come from?
45356	Why this difference?
45356	Will they also declare it to be a non- conductor of light and heat?
45356	[ The ether?]
45356	of attractive force come from?
28274	What more,said Hutton long ago,"is required to explain the configuration of our mountains and valleys?
28274	''"[ 3] Is my life vulgar, my fate mean, Which on such golden memories can lean?
28274	; while Ennerdale Water lies nearly E. by W. Can we account in any way, and if so how, for these varied directions?
28274	But is this necessarily so?
28274	But what is the love of Nature?
28274	But why should flowers sleep?
28274	But why should the rivers, after running for a certain distance in the direction of the main axis, so often break away into lateral valleys?
28274	But why should we sleep?
28274	Does it result from some innate tendency in each species?
28274	How has this come to pass?
28274	In this case, therefore, there was one, and there are now two exactly similar; but are these two individuals?
28274	Is it intentionally designed to delight the eye of man?
28274	Is this love of Nature?
28274	It is not any part of the process that will be disputed; but, after allowing all the parts, the whole will be denied; and for what?
28274	Now, why has the flower this peculiar form?
28274	Of what use is the fringe of hairs?
28274	Oh wind, If winter comes, can spring be long behind?
28274	Or has the form and size and texture some reference to the structure and organisation, the habits and requirements of the whole plant?
28274	Since, then, there is so much complex structure in a single leaf, what must it be in a whole plant?
28274	The Rabbit is said to reach 10 years, the Dog and Sheep 10- 12, the Pig 20, the Horse 30, the Camel 100, the Elephant 200, the Greenland Whale 400(?
28274	To what then are lakes due?
28274	What advantage is the honey to the flower?
28274	What is the Sun made of?
28274	What is the use of the arch?
28274	What lesson do the little teeth teach us?
28274	What regulates the length of the tube?
28274	What, then, has that history been?
28274	What, then, is the use and purpose of this complex organisation?
28274	Whence comes the breath which you draw; the light by which you perform the actions of your life?
28274	Who is there who has not watched them with admiration?
28274	Why does the stigma project beyond the anthers?
28274	Why have deserts replaced cities?
28274	Why have not the still more level, the greener and more fertile pampas, which are serviceable to mankind, produced an equal impression?
28274	Why is the corolla white, while the rest of the plant is green?
28274	Why is there this melancholy change?
28274	Why should I exchange you, even for the sight of all the Alps?"
28274	Why should flowers do so?
28274	Why should some flowers do so, and not others?
28274	Why then this marvellous variety?
28274	Why then-- and the case is not peculiar to myself-- have these arid wastes taken so firm possession of my mind?
28274	or how shall we follow its eternal cheerfulness of feeling?
28274	the blood by which your life is maintained?
28274	the blood by which your life is maintained?
28274	the meat by which your hunger is appeased?...
28274	the meat by which your hunger is appeased?...
28274	this inexhaustible treasury of beautiful forms?
39142	And are they"island universes"?
39142	And can man, the measurer, measure the distance of the"mainland"beyond?
39142	And does the earth''s turning round on its axis affect this shape?
39142	And if we had never seen either bird or fish, should we not believe that the air and water were uninhabitable?
39142	And might it not be possible to discover some of them among the faint stars that make up the belt of the zodiac in which all the other planets travel?
39142	And the distances of the still more wonderful clusters?
39142	And their distances?
39142	And who wrote the first treatise on astronomy, oldest of the sciences?
39142	And( 3) Why should there be any definite relation of the distances of planets from the sun to their times of revolution about him?
39142	Are we sure that fire has not its invisible inhabitants, whose bodies, made of asbestos, are impenetrable to flame?
39142	But why should all living beings necessarily be constituted like ourselves?
39142	CHAPTER II THE FIRST ASTRONOMERS Who were the first astronomers?
39142	CHAPTER XIII NEWTON AND MOTION"How is it that you are able to make these great discoveries?"
39142	CHAPTER XLI WHERE DO COMETS COME FROM?
39142	CHAPTER XLV STAR CHARTS AND CATALOGUES Who made the first star chart or catalogue?
39142	CHAPTER XXXI THE SOLAR CORONA"And what is the sun''s corona?"
39142	Can the greater heights be reached and permanently occupied?
39142	Can the law connecting speed of motion and spectral type be so general that the planetary nebula is to be regarded as the final evolutionary stage?
39142	Can these theoretical estimates be verified by observation?
39142	Can you convince a Chinaman that Rahu, the Dragon, would n''t have eaten up the sun, if his unearthly din had n''t frightened him away?
39142	Comets?
39142	Find a star''s distance by the spectroscope?
39142	How far away is the sun?
39142	How is this inconceivably vast output of energy maintained practically invariable throughout the centuries?
39142	How shall we intelligently express the vast distances at which the stars are removed from us?
39142	How then can we be sure of the chemical and physical composition of sun and stars?
39142	If so, would they still be traveling round the sun as individual small planets?
39142	In one of the Vedas occurs this significant song to the god of day:"Will the Sun rise again?
39142	Is Mars inhabited?
39142	Is man the only inhabitant of the earth itself?
39142	Is the influence of their periodicity potent or negligible?
39142	Is the moon inhabited?
39142	May it not extend outward into space, even as far as the moon?
39142	Now, on close approach, what happens?
39142	Or more specifically,"Is Mars inhabited?"
39142	Photograph it?
39142	Says Anne Bradstreet of the sun in her"Contemplations": What glory''s like to thee?
39142	The asteroids, or minor planets?
39142	The great question that occurs at once is: How do the individual stars get their motions?
39142	The question is often asked, When will the next comet come?
39142	The question most frequently asked the astronomer is,"Have any of the stars got people on them?"
39142	WHERE DO COMETS COME FROM?
39142	What are the effects of the sun, and sun spots in particular, on our weather?
39142	What have astronomers done to classify or catalogue this vast array of bodies in the sky?
39142	What is the Galaxy or Milky Way?
39142	What is the cause?
39142	What is the longest photographic exposure ever made?
39142	What is the origin of meteors?
39142	What is the size of the sun?
39142	What is the true shape of the earth?
39142	What then is the sun''s own weight?
39142	What then, shall we conclude?
39142	Where do comets come from?
39142	Why should it be exactly as the cube of one to the square of the other?
39142	Will our old friend the Dawn come back again?
39142	Will the power of Darkness be conquered by the God of Light?"
39142	With very little water, a thin atmosphere and a zero temperature, is Mars likely to be inhabited at the present time?
32598	And which is the brightest?
32598	Another story?
32598	Are n''t these interesting names?
32598	Are they ready to leave it, and explore some other?
32598	Can you see a small triangle made by three stars, of which Vega is one?
32598	Could a flood have scattered them as they are found?
32598	Could any substance become liquid with such a weight upon it, whatever heat it attained?
32598	Could you think of a more interesting adventure than to find the oldest rocks that show the skeletons of horses?
32598	Did you ever use a piece of chalk that scratched the black- board?
32598	Do they feel now that they know their river?
32598	Do we think often enough of this invisible, life- giving element upon which we depend so constantly?
32598	Do you know the name of one great western river of which I am thinking?
32598	Do you see a little dead fish in the water?
32598	Do you see two rather bright stars about twenty- five degrees from the Pole?
32598	Got it?
32598	Have you ever seen a Sickle in the sky?
32598	Have you ever seen a drop of pond water under a compound microscope?
32598	Have you ever seen the chalk cliffs of Dover?
32598	Have you ever visited a brick- yard?
32598	Have you not seen little trees growing on a patch of moss which gets its food from the air and the rock to which it clings?
32598	Have you the Cross now?
32598	How can any one know that these bones belonged to a horse''s skeleton?
32598	How do I know that?
32598	How do I know that?
32598	How does he look to you?
32598	How long ago did those first islands appear above the sea?
32598	How many years ago did the first Nile overflow take place?
32598	How would you like to start a Star Club like ours?
32598	Is Arcturus really red?
32598	Is that a true story?
32598	Is that a true story?
32598	Is there any stream in your neighbourhood which has such peculiar ways?
32598	KING COAL In this country, and in this age, who can doubt that coal is king?
32598	Look where Orion is threatening to strike, and you will see a V. How many stars in that V?
32598	More yellow than red?
32598	Remember?)
32598	See the arm and the club-- about seven stars in a rather poor curve-- beyond the red star Betelgeuse?
32598	See the shield-- about four rather faint stars in a pretty good curve?
32598	Some people believe this because Job said,"Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"
32598	THE EARTH_ PAGE THE GREAT STONE BOOK 3 THE FOSSIL FISH 6 THE CRUST OF THE EARTH 9 WHAT IS THE EARTH MADE OF?
32598	That red one at the top of the left branch of the V?
32598	To illustrate, do you know the_ Pointers_?
32598	WHAT BECOMES OF THE RAIN?
32598	WHAT IS THE EARTH MADE OF?
32598	Well, do you see the star in the beak of the Swan, or foot of the Cross?
32598	What becomes of it all?
32598	What becomes of the hot air that rises in a constant stream above the"Doldrums,"pushed up by the cooler trade winds that blow in from north and south?
32598	What color is it?
32598	What explanation is there for this extensive distribution of unsorted débris?
32598	What if we children jumped the rope so hard as to break through the fragile shell, and drop out of sight in a sea of fiery metal, like melted iron?
32598	What should we do for wells if it were not for the water basins that lie below the surface?
32598	Where does the dust come from?
32598	White?
32598	Who can estimate the time it took to form those thick, solid layers of lime rock?
32598	Who has not cut his foot on the broken shells that lie in the sandy bottom we walk on whenever we go into the surf to swim or bathe?
32598	Who has not spent hours gathering dead shells which the tide has thrown up on the beach?
32598	Why does n''t this list agree with yours?
32598	Why is the trend of the great mountain systems almost always north and south?
32598	Why should anybody be afraid of anything so lovely as Sirius?
32598	You want another true story?
32598	_ What is soil made of?_ Ground rock materials and decayed remains of animal and plant life.
32598	_ What is soil?_ It is the surface layer of the earth''s crust, sometimes too shallow on the rocks to plough, sometimes much deeper.
32598	_ What is the best garden soil?_ A mixture of sand, clay, and humus is called"loam."
26556	Sunday on earth or Monday in heaven, it''s all one to me?
26556	What do you think of that stop?
26556	''Did you foresee the year?''
26556	''Shall we set about some revels?''
26556	''To what other end,''proceeds this most convincing reasoning,''can be so immense a heaven with such a multitude of stars?
26556	''What contagion,''he asked,''can reach us from the planets, whose distance is almost infinite?''
26556	''What shall we do else?''
26556	''What,''he wrote,''is to be said concerning so strange a metamorphosis?
26556	''Where is your chronometer?''
26556	( Why, by the way, should the past theory be assigned to the moon and the future one to our earth?)
26556	And then, why should a mere treasure- house have the characteristics of an astronomical observatory?
26556	Are the two lesser stars consumed after the manner of the solar spots?
26556	Burn up?
26556	But may we not go farther?
26556	But then, what will happen?
26556	Did they ever die?
26556	Did they, by this, record any past calamity of_ their_ world, or predict any future one of_ ours_?''
26556	Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his children?
26556	Have they vanished or suddenly fled?
26556	He created the world, and shall we liken ourselves unto Him in seeking to penetrate into the mysteries of His creation?
26556	How could they expire if they did n''t breathe?
26556	How did the''grounds''of a teacup come to acquire that deep significance which they now possess for Mrs. Gamp and Betsy Prig?
26556	How is it possible for anyone acquainted with these facts, and who thinks from reason, to assert that such bodies are uninhabited?''
26556	How, it might be asked, is the question of life in other worlds involved in these researches?
26556	How, then, can the theory of Copernicus be right, according to which the planets circle in closed orbits round the sun?
26556	If a new theory is to replace the one now accepted, why should not_ he_ be the new Copernicus?
26556	If prophecies and tongues, why not knowledge, as evidence of a divine mission?
26556	In which case, let us ask what the entrance passage has to do with half rather than a whole day?''
26556	Is there in our day no undue sacrifice of present good in idle questionings?
26556	It has been poetically said''[ where and by whom?]
26556	Later he wrote that''the observations which tend to ascertain''( indicate?)
26556	Louis himself regarded the comet of 837 as his death- warrant; the astrologers admitted as much: what more could be desired?
26556	Or were the appearances, indeed, illusion or fraud with which the glasses have so long deceived me as well as many others to whom I have shown them?
26556	The man stopped, and asked the faggot- bearer;"Do you know that this is Sunday on earth, when all must rest from their labours?"
26556	The star called Cor Hydræ, or the serpent''s heart, denotes trouble through women( said I not rightly that Astrology was a masculine science?
26556	There is a reference in Galileo''s letter to the solar spots;''Are the two lesser stars,''he says,''consumed after the manner of the solar spots?''
26556	To whom did the thought first present itself that the pips on playing- cards are significant of future events; and why did he think so?
26556	What would this be for the Creator of the universe, to whom the whole universe filled with earths could not be enough''( for what?
26556	What, then, was it that Cassini, Short, Montaigne, and the rest supposed they saw?
26556	Who can believe that the stars are so remote that by comparison the span of the earth''s path is a mere point?''
26556	Why should the ring- system, 30,000 miles in width, be thus divided into zones of different material?
26556	Will much knowledge create thee a double belly, or wilt thou seek paradise with thine eyes?''
26556	is there no tendency to trust in a vain fetishism to prevent or remove evils which energy could avert or remedy?
26556	says Toby;''were we not born under Taurus?''
26556	what can the name of it have to do with the sound?
28853	All this must provoke the question, How can anyone find out these things?
28853	And for the first moment it seems absurd; for what then makes the summer hotter than the winter?
28853	But how about a blue thing?
28853	But if the comet goes on tail- making to a large extent every time it returns to the sun, what happens eventually?
28853	But what happened?
28853	But, you may protest, if the colour is solely due to light, and light falls on everything alike, why are there so many colours?
28853	CHAPTER II HANGING IN SPACE If you are holding something in your hand and you let it go, what happens?
28853	CHAPTER V FOUR SMALL WORLDS What must the sun appear to Mercury, who is so much nearer to him than we are?
28853	CHAPTER XII WHAT THE STARS ARE MADE OF How can we possibly tell what the stars are made of?
28853	CHAPTER XIV THE COLOURS OF THE STARS Has it ever occurred to you that the stars are not all of the same colour?
28853	CHAPTER XVI STAR CLUSTERS AND NEBULÆ Could you point out any star cluster in the sky?
28853	Can they be immense planets?
28853	Do the tails fall back again into the head when out of reach of the sun''s action?
28853	Does it ever fall within the earth''s shadow?
28853	Have you ever looked carefully at a rainbow?
28853	Have you ever noticed that if a railway engine is sweeping- toward you and screaming all the time, its note seems to get shriller and shriller?
28853	He runs his finger over the chart: here and there are the well- known stars that mark that constellation, but here?
28853	How can that be known?
28853	How can we discover this star for ourselves in the sky?
28853	How can we explain this?
28853	How could planets exist under the pull of two suns in opposite directions?
28853	Is it possible that life may there exist?
28853	It makes one giddy to picture the seconds there are in a year; yet if each one of those seconds was a year in itself, what then?
28853	Now we come to the question that must have been in the mind of everyone from the beginning of this chapter, What are comets?
28853	Now, why should it do so?
28853	Of course, the one absorbing question is, Are there people on Mars?
28853	So why should we expect other systems to be less varied?
28853	That is an odd thing, is n''t it?
28853	The average space between such double stars as seen from our earth is-- what do you think?
28853	The comet itself dwindles to a hairy star once more and goes-- whither?
28853	The first question which occurs to all of us is what must the sky look like from Saturn?
28853	Then think what a distance it could travel in an hour, in a day; and what about a year?
28853	To begin with light, what can we learn from it?
28853	Try to shake yourself free, and think, Why should it go down instead of up or any other way?
28853	We have seen that there are dark stars as well as light stars; if so, may there not be dark nebulæ as well as light ones?
28853	What are these marvellous streamers and filaments?
28853	What are these rings?
28853	What are they, then?
28853	What can it be?
28853	What do you say to a dark body revolving round Algol, or, rather, revolving with him round a common centre of gravity?
28853	What does it mean?
28853	What follows?
28853	What is it in the constitution of a blue star which holds or attracts another?
28853	What is the spark?
28853	What then keeps it shining?
28853	What was the result?
28853	What, then, can they be?
28853	Whence has it come?
28853	Where do the comets come from?
28853	Where do you suppose our own place to be?
28853	Where in such a system would there be room for the planets?
28853	Why is this?
28853	Will it be the nearest to the sun or the furthest away from him?
28853	Would you be surprised to hear that she is nearer in our winter and further away in our summer?
28853	You will say:''How could it do anything else?''
28853	what are they made of?
22472	A resinous substance that fell after a fireball?
22472	But that the science of Astronomy suffered the slightest in prestige?
22472	But what went up, from one place, in a whirlwind?
22472	Cannon balls and wedges, and what may they mean?
22472	Do you want power over something?
22472	Editor''s note:"May not these appearances be attributed to an abnormal state of the optic nerves of the observer?"
22472	How can one think of something and something else, too?
22472	How could a mountain be without base in a greater body?
22472	I shall have to accept, myself, that gelatinous substance has often fallen from the sky-- Or that, far up, or far away, the whole sky is gelatinous?
22472	If it stood in the sky for several days, we rank with Moses as a chronicler of improprieties-- or was that story, or datum, we mean, told by Moses?
22472	If six observations correlated, what more could be asked?
22472	Interesting, but mere speculation-- but what solid object, high in the air, had that bird struck against?
22472	Looking back-- why did n''t I do this or that little thing that would have cost so little and have meant so much?
22472	My notion of astronomic accuracy: Who could not be a prize marksman, if only his hits be recorded?
22472	Or-- if they were of substances that had had origin upon some other part of this earth''s surface-- had the hail, too, that origin?
22472	Our own expression: What matters it how we, the French Academy, or the Salvation Army may explain?
22472	Scientists in the past have taken the positivist attitude-- is this or that reasonable or unreasonable?
22472	Shadow of the earth on the moon?
22472	So how can you prove that something is not something else, when neither is something else some other thing?
22472	So we shall interpret-- and what does it matter?
22472	Storekeeper live without customers?
22472	That fragments are brought down by storms?
22472	That meteors tear through and detach fragments?
22472	That something was trawling overhead?
22472	That the twinkling of stars is penetration of light through something that quivers?
22472	The greatest of mysteries: Why do n''t they ever come here, or send here, openly?
22472	The mystery of it is: What could have brought so many of them together?
22472	The other instances seem to me to be typical of-- something like migration?
22472	The question: Was it a thing or the shadow of a thing?
22472	The shapes were of great diversity-- or different aspects of similar shapes?
22472	Then Mr. Proctor wrote disagreeable letters, himself, about other persons-- what else would you expect in a quasi- existence?
22472	Then one thinks of lightning?
22472	Then some pity crept in?
22472	What does it matter what my notions may be?
22472	What is a house?
22472	What is meant by the fittest?
22472	What is there to say, except that it fell with high velocity and embedded in the tree?
22472	When is fiction bad, cheap, low?
22472	Where did he get a rare coin, and why was it not missed from some collection?
22472	Whirlwinds we read of over and over-- but where and what whirlwind?
22472	Why that?
22472	Why?
22472	Will you look over your records and tell me where your engine was at about ten minutes past four, July fifth?"
22472	Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relation with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation?
22472	You''d think that such a question as that would make trouble?
22472	_ Notes and Queries_, 8- 12- 228: That in the province of Macerata, Italy( summer of 1897?)
15620	But what drives the engine?
15620	Whereon are the sockets of the earth made to sink?
15620	Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span? 15620 And all the stars echoed the question with amazement:''End is there none of the universe of God?'' 15620 Apparent size; ice- fields; which end most? 15620 Are our creative powers exhausted by this effort? 15620 Asteroids? 15620 But are we mere reasoners in a circle? 15620 But are we to infer from these errors of the planetary tables the existence of a trans- Neptunian planet? 15620 But how can condensation cause light? 15620 But how detect the change? 15620 But how? 15620 But if matter could be so dowered as to produce such results by mechanism, could it be dowered to produce the results of intelligence? 15620 But is it in points only? 15620 But what do we know of its essence? 15620 But what if the furnace or stove heat went through glass with equal facility? 15620 But why not at first? 15620 By whom? 15620 COMETS, 126; Halley''s, 128; Biela''s lost, 129; Encke''s, 130; constitution of, 131; will they strike the earth? 15620 Can it be thought that moral and spiritual matters have no precision? 15620 Composed of what? 15620 Could it be dowered with power of choice without becoming mind? 15620 Eclipses-- Why not every new and full moon? 15620 Force? 15620 Given, then, matter with mechanical power only, what are the gaps between it and spirituality? 15620 Has man reached perfection? 15620 Have they fled, or are we turned from them? 15620 How can it? 15620 How can the movements of the stars be comprehended when they are at such an immeasurable distance? 15620 How can this be accounted for? 15620 How could it be possible for a sun like this newly blazing orb to cool off to such a[ Page 225] degree in a month? 15620 How far from? 15620 How many earths? 15620 How many? 15620 How shall we detect it? 15620 How was it possible that the writers of the earlier Scriptures described physical phenomena with wonderful sublimity, and with such penetrative truth? 15620 Hydrogen-- how high? 15620 If light conceal so much, wherefore not life?
15620	If that is the progress of the past, why should it deteriorate in the future?
15620	Is it lost?
15620	Is it?
15620	Is not this the teaching of the Bible?
15620	Is the celestial chronometry getting deranged?
15620	Is there no prophecy in him?
15620	Is this music?
15620	Is this world- theory true?
15620	Jupiter: Elements; trade- winds; how much light received?
15620	Mars: Elements; how near earth?
15620	Must not light also sing?
15620	Nay, more, what if some of the greatest triumphs of modern science are to be found plainly stated in a book older than the writings of Homer?
15620	Nebulæ: Two visible; composed of; shapes; where?
15620	Neptune: Elements; discovered by; how?
15620	Neptune?
15620	Revolution: Why twenty- nine and a half days: heat-- cold; how much light?
15620	SHOOTING- STARS, METEORS, AND COMETS Aerolites Comets Famous Comets Of what do Comets consist?
15620	Satellites-- Asteroids: How found?
15620	Satellites: How many?
15620	The engineer Stephenson once asked Dr. Buckland,"What is the power that drives that train?"
15620	The one who is made is not to say to the Maker,"Why hast thou formed me in this or that manner?"
15620	To what voices shall we listen first?
15620	Uranus discovered?
15620	Venus: Elements; seen by day; how near earth?
15620	Vulcan?
15620	We ask in vain,"What is matter?"
15620	We ask,"What is force?"
15620	What a whisper of a word we hear of_ Him!_ The thunder of his power who can comprehend?"
15620	What becomes of the force of the sun that is being spent to- day?
15620	What continuous relation?
15620	What follows?
15620	What if it be found that the Word is equally inexhaustible?
15620	What is it?
15620	What is matter?
15620	What is the continuous relation of the universe to the mind from which it derived its power?
15620	What is the reason?
15620	What is the significance of this single element of power?
15620	What is the ultimate?
15620	What must be the size of the ultimate particles that freely move about to nourish an animal whose totality is too small to estimate?
15620	What shall we call them?
15620	What ultimate?
15620	What will be the effect?
15620	When?
15620	Whence come comets?
15620	Whence come they?
15620	Whence the first animal?
15620	Whence the first cell?
15620	Whence the first vegetable seed?
15620	Where?
15620	Who_ made_ the sun?
15620	Whose?
15620	Why did they not contract to centres of nebulæ?
15620	Why do we then shun death with anxious strife?
15620	Why should there be great vacuities, barren of power and its creative outgoings?
15620	Why[ Page 242] should there not be a finer universe than this, and disconnected from this world altogether-- a fit home for immortal souls?
15620	Will Comets strike the Earth?
15620	[ Page 94]_ What the Sun does for us._ To what end does this enormous power, this central source of power, exist?
15620	_ Of what do Comets consist?_ The unsolved problems pertaining to comets are very numerous and exceedingly delicate.
15620	_ The Planets._--How many?
15620	_ Who_ made the sun?
15620	_ Will Comets strike the Earth?_ Very likely, since one or two have done so within a recent period.
15620	and if so, is either of the[ Page 185] evolution theories true also?
15620	holy light, offspring of Heaven first born, Or of the eternal, co- eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed?
15620	how far from?
15620	| 0.46| 87.97d| 29.55|| Venus| 23h 21 m(?)
15620	||-----------|---------------|----------|-----------|----------|| Sun| 25 to 26d| 27.71|||| Mercury| 24h 5 m(?)
4065	Are we in any danger?
4065	Are we not the lords of creation?
4065	But how can we know anything about the distance of stars outside this sphere?
4065	But how investigate that which is ever beyond our reach, on which we can never make an experiment?
4065	But how is it with the millions of faint telescopic stars, especially those which form the cloud masses of the Milky Way?
4065	But how shall the combined forces be applied?
4065	But if we are in sympathy, what matters it that he was dead long before I was born, that he lived in one century and I in another?
4065	But is there really anything intrinsically improbable in an agency travelling with a speed many times that of light?
4065	But where are we to look for these worlds?
4065	CAN WE MAKE IT RAIN?
4065	Can he dare to say that nature was the same then as now?
4065	Could we breathe the air, would we choke for breath or be poisoned by the fumes of some noxious gas?
4065	Did it at last fill the heavens and break up into constellations as we now see them?
4065	Did that patch of light grow larger and larger as million after million of years elapsed?
4065	Did the aqueous vapor already in the surrounding air slowly condense into clouds and raindrops in defiance of physical laws?
4065	Do we not journey from continent to continent over oceans that no animal can cross, and with a speed of which our ancestors would never have dreamed?
4065	Does it consist of nothing but isolated particles, or is there a solid nucleus, the attraction of which tends to keep the mass together?
4065	Does it immediately burst forth with considerable magnitude, or does it begin as the smallest visible speck, and gradually grow?
4065	Does the universe constitute a system?
4065	Has it bounds outside of which nothing exists but the black and starless depths of infinity itself?
4065	Have we any reason to believe that life exists on these other worlds?
4065	Have we not gained anything by allowing the argument to be forgotten in the cases of these two institutions?
4065	Have we not girdled the earth with wires through which we speak to our antipodes?
4065	How can he essay to describe what may have been going on hundreds of millions of years in the past?
4065	How do the groups of brilliant points called faculae come, change, and grow?
4065	How far away are the stars?
4065	How far does this universe extend?
4065	How is he ever going to stop?
4065	How is the heat of the sun kept up?
4065	How shall he reach the ground without destroying his delicate machinery?
4065	How shall we ever know of what chemical elements the sun and the stars are made?
4065	How shall we proceed to communicate our ideas to him?
4065	If so, can we comprehend the plan on which this system is formed, of its beginning and of its end?
4065	If so, shall the power thus to be exercised prove an agent of beneficence, diffusing light and life among nations, or shall it be the opposite?
4065	If solid land there is, would we find on it the homes of intelligent beings, the lairs of wild beasts, or no living thing at all?
4065	If the sun is moving in the way I have described, may not the stars also be in motion, each on a journey of its own through the wilderness of space?
4065	If this is the case with the nearest planets that we can study, how is it with more distant ones?
4065	In other words, has the universe a boundary?
4065	In what direction shall its possessors then look?
4065	Is it possible that this minute object could have been thousands of times the dimensions of our solar system?
4065	Is the man thus moved to the exploration of nature by an unconquerable passion more to be envied or pitied?
4065	Is the storehouse, then, in the medium itself, or does the latter draw it from surrounding objects?
4065	Is there any size at which it will be able to support a human being?
4065	May it not be that these bodies are so numerous as to cut off the light which we would otherwise receive from the more distant bodies of the universe?
4065	May it not exercise a powerful influence on the destiny not only of the country but of the world?
4065	May not an explosion taking place in the centre of a star produce an effect which shall travel yet faster than light?
4065	May not this universe of stars be somewhat in the nature of a hollow sphere?
4065	Mountain, forest, and field, a dreary waste, or a seething caldron larger than our earth?
4065	Must we try the entire thousand to find the one?
4065	No question in practical life is more important than this: How can this desirable knowledge of the economic effects of a tariff be obtained?
4065	Now, what went on during the hours that elapsed between the sound of the last bomb and the falling of the first drop of rain?
4065	Or are the stars we see simply such members of an infinite collection as happen to be the nearest our system?
4065	Or was Jupiter Pluvius awakened by the sound after two thousand years of slumber, and did the laws of nature become silent at his command?
4065	Preliminary in some sort to these questions are the more approachable ones: Of what sort of matter is the universe formed?
4065	Rather say that the problem, What becomes of it?
4065	Shall they train a posterity which will so use its power as to make the world better that it has lived in it?
4065	Since such deviations were actually observed it was very natural to conclude that they were due to this cause, but how shall we prove it?
4065	The execution of this law necessarily involves the question,"What shall be considered astronomical and what nautical purposes?"
4065	The question may be asked, How much of a telescope can an amateur observer, under any circumstances, make for himself?
4065	The questions to be settled are two: first, are there any dark spots or other markings on the disk?
4065	VIII HOW THE PLANETS ARE WEIGHED You ask me how the planets are weighed?
4065	Was there a period when they saw at night only a black and starless heaven?
4065	Was there a time when in that heaven a small faint patch of light began gradually to appear?
4065	What are the distances and arrangements of the stars?
4065	What can we say as to the extent of this sphere?
4065	What does a spot look like when it first comes into sight?
4065	What is it that distinguishes these two ends?
4065	What is it?
4065	What is really wanted is to train the intellectual powers, and the question ought to be, what is the best method of doing this?
4065	What is the sun?
4065	What is their cause?
4065	What may we not expect of that energy which in sixty years has transformed a straggling village into one of the world''s great centres of commerce?
4065	What more hopeless problem to one confined to earth than that of determining their varying distances, their motions, and their physical constitution?
4065	What sort of life, spiritual and intellectual, exists in distant worlds?
4065	What would have been gained by applying the argument in these cases?
4065	What would our civilization have been if the mariner''s compass had never been known?
4065	When a spot breaks up into several pieces, what is the seeming nature of the process?
4065	When several spots coalesce into one, how do they do it?
4065	When shall we get there?
4065	When, where, and how, if ever, did this journey begin-- when, where, and how, if ever, will it end?
4065	Whence comes the supply?
4065	Whence comes the supply?
4065	Whence, then, came the first germ?
4065	Who shall map out the orbits of the heavenly bodies as they are going to appear in a hundred thousand years?
4065	Who shall take a map of the world and mark upon it the line on which the moon''s shadow will travel during some eclipse a hundred years hence?
4065	Why does ether act on the molecule and not the mass?
4065	Why is this?
4065	Why may not this round have been going on forever, and continue in the future without end?
4065	Why so great an expenditure of energy?
4065	Will the future heir to great wealth prefer the intellectual life to the life of pleasure?
4065	Would the result have been better than it actually has been?
4065	XII CAN WE MAKE IT RAIN?
4065	You can not get up to the heavenly bodies to do your weighing; how then will you measure their pull?
4065	and into what sort of bodies is this matter collected?
4065	second, are there any irregularities in the form of the sharp cusps?
28613	Does Mr. Newton eat, drink, sleep, like other men?
28613	How on earth do you know?
28613	Understand the structure of a soap- bubble?
28613	What have plane figures to do with the celestial orbits?
28613	***** Who, then, was the man of first magnitude filling up the gap in scientific history between the death of Galileo and the maturity of Newton?
28613	A month, should you guess?
28613	And how was the_ Principia_ received?
28613	And what about science?
28613	And what did his versatile genius accomplish during his fifty- four years of life?
28613	And what does it see?
28613	And what is the outcome of it all?
28613	Are all the bodies in space of this gigantic size?
28613	Are perhaps the two smaller stars consumed like spots on the sun?
28613	Are there any now who practically repeat their error, and resist new truth?
28613	Are there any such gigantic rotating masses of gas in the heaven now?
28613	Are we then to regard the system as absurd and wholly false?
28613	But against the power of Rome what could they do?
28613	But all this was working in the dark-- it was only the first step-- this empirical discovery of facts; the facts were so, but how came they so?
28613	But did it satisfy the law of speed?
28613	But was the change sudden?
28613	But what about the shape of the orbit-- Was it after all possible that Aristotle, and every philosopher since Aristotle, had been wrong?
28613	But what is it pulling back?
28613	But, it may be asked, if Kepler''s third law only gives us the mass of a_ central_ body, how is the mass of a_ satellite_ to be known?
28613	But, wait a bit; is it discovered?
28613	Can they have been once a single planet broken up?
28613	Consider for a moment the denudation import of the tides: how does the existence of tidal rise and fall affect the geological problem?
28613	Could he not hit on the device and make an instrument capable of bringing the heavenly bodies nearer?
28613	Could it be an outer planet?
28613	Could it be expressed no more simply?
28613	Could it be that the light particles after passing through the prism travelled in variously curved lines, as spinning racquet balls do?
28613	Could it be that white light was compound, was a mixture of several constituents, and that its different constituents were differently bent?
28613	Could the observation be wrong by this small amount?
28613	Could the rate of description of areas be uniform with it?
28613	Could this planet be inside the orbit of Uranus?
28613	Did it seem to him as if he had seen far and deep into the truths of this great and infinite universe?
28613	Does not the secular variation in excentricity of the earth''s orbit, combined with the precession of the equinoxes, afford a key?
28613	Does the elevation of the ocean cause the tidal flow, or does the tidal flow cause the elevation?
28613	Genius patience?
28613	Have they not succeeded?
28613	Have they suddenly vanished and fled?
28613	Have we any reason for supposing that the stars we see are all there are?
28613	He next examined the various hypotheses that had been suggested to account for them:--Was it a failure in the law of gravitation?
28613	How far did it fall?
28613	How far is the moon away?
28613	How long would it be before you encountered another object?
28613	If the earth revolved round the sun, how came it that the fixed stars showed no parallax?
28613	In June the earth is 184 million miles away from where it was in December: how can we see precisely the same fixed stars?
28613	In other words, have we any reason for supposing all celestial objects to be sufficiently luminous to be visible?
28613	Is it 16/3600?
28613	Is it not probable that this is_ why_ the moon always now turns the same face towards us?
28613	Is it over yet?
28613	Is it possible that comets are large meteors which dip into the solar atmosphere, and are thus rendered conspicuously luminous?
28613	Is there any connection between their orbital distances, or between their orbits and the times of describing them?
28613	Is there any connection or common ancestry possible, to account for this strange family likeness?
28613	Is there really nothing in space but the nebulæ, the suns, their planets, and their satellites?
28613	Is this force of gravity sufficient for the purpose?
28613	It appeared to his contemporaries as if he had almost exhausted the possibility of discovery; but did it so appear to Newton?
28613	Kepler had discovered how they moved, but why did they so move, what urged them?
28613	Light travels from the stars to our eyes: does it come instantaneously?
28613	May there not be an infinitude of small bodies as well?
28613	Not itself, surely?
28613	Now what can be said of so strange a metamorphosis?
28613	Now when we have a spinning body, say a top, overloaded on one side so that gravity acts on it unsymmetrically, what happens?
28613	Now, what is the moral to be drawn from such uniformity of behaviour among unconnected bodies?
28613	Or has Saturn devoured his own children?
28613	Or was it due to a collision with some comet?
28613	So far we have dealt mainly with the earth and its moon; but is the existence of tides limited to these bodies?
28613	Surely a mistake of calculation?
28613	That is what it ought to be: but is it?
28613	The doctrine is very familiar to us now, we have heard it, I suppose, since we were four years old, but can you realize it?
28613	The main interest of these bodies to us lies in the question, What is their history?
28613	The question, therefore,"At what rate does our messenger travel?"
28613	The sun is one of the stars: then is it at rest?
28613	They rotate with the motion they possess when thrown or shrunk off; but will they remain rings?
28613	They say,"If the cart pulls against the horse with precisely the same force as the horse pulls the cart, why should the cart move?"
28613	This was evidently a puzzling fact: what on earth can our year have to do with the motion of a moon of Jupiter''s?
28613	This was natural enough, but was it moving the right way?
28613	Up in Lincolnshire, in the seventeenth century, who was there for him to consult?
28613	Very well, then, put this problem:--A vast mass of rotating gas is left to itself to cool for ages and to condense as it cools: how will it behave?
28613	Was it always decreasing?
28613	Was it due to some unseen but large satellite?
28613	Was it due to the presence of a resisting medium?
28613	Was it likely that a young and unknown man should have successfully solved so extremely difficult a problem?
28613	Was it possible the tables were wrong?
28613	Was this impostor going to blacken its face too?
28613	We do possess the sense of sight; but is it to be supposed that we possess every sense that can be possessed by finite beings?
28613	We have now to ask, Are these spaces really empty?
28613	Were his opponents convinced?
28613	What about the second?
28613	What are comets?
28613	What can be better than"heat,""light,""sound"?
28613	What can have caused the slowing down?
28613	What could have caused it?
28613	What happens to these rings?
28613	What is the meaning of the equable description of areas?
28613	What made the planets move in this particular way?
28613	What was the physical cause of this acceleration according to the theory of gravitation?
28613	Where is the man to spend his life in evolving the beginnings of law and order from the midst of all this chaos?
28613	Wherein, then, lies the difference?
28613	Why are you not here?
28613	Why did not others make any of these observations?
28613	Why did the image thus spread out?
28613	Why is this?
28613	Why may not some of the stars be dark too?
28613	Why not exactly?
28613	Why on earth not?
28613	Why should it not be the gravitation of the sun that is the central force acting on all the planets?
28613	Why should it not reach as high as the moon?
28613	Why should it only pull stones and apples?
28613	Will an inverse square law of force keep a body moving in an elliptic orbit about the sun in one focus?
28613	Will it hold for elliptic orbits?
28613	Will they ultimately approach and fall into the sun, or will they recede further and further from him, into the cold of space?
28613	Yes, certainly the cart is pulling at the horse; if the cart offered no resistance what would be the good of the horse?
28613	[ 17] How can one decide whether such a force is able to pull the moon the actual amount required?
28613	and if so, how far back was it so excentric that at perihelion the earth passed quite near the sun?
28613	and where were the doctrines they had maintained as irrefragable?
28613	or are they rather an abortive attempt at a planet never yet formed into one?
28613	or does it loiter by the way?
28613	that circular motion was not the perfect and natural motion, but that planets might move in some other closed curve?
28613	who cling to any old anchorage of dogma, and refuse to rise with the tide of advancing knowledge?
27378	Is not,he will say,"the earth in the way?
27378	Think you this mould of hopes and fears Could find no statelier than his peers In yonder hundred million spheres?
27378	)||Venus| 67·2| 66·6| 67·5| 224·70| 7,700|(?)
27378	101) we may ask the question, Why does it not fall down?
27378	A few nights later he observes the same body again; but is it exactly in the same place?
27378	Amid all this host of objects, how are we to identify those which lie nearest to the earth?
27378	Amid all this variety and seeming caprice, can we discover any feature common to the different phenomena?
27378	Amid this vast number of worlds with which space is tenanted, are there any inhabited by living beings?
27378	And do not the planets also revolve in ellipses?
27378	And, lastly, what can we learn of the marvellous nebulæ which our telescopes disclose, poised at an immeasurable distance?
27378	Are the days as warm and as bright now as they were last year, ten years ago, one hundred years ago?
27378	Are the planets globes like that on which we live?
27378	Are the two lesser stars consumed after the manner of the solar spots?
27378	Are they bodies which shine by their own light like the sun, or do they only shine with borrowed light like the moon?
27378	But are there any objects in the heavens unconnected with our system?
27378	But did such planets exist?
27378	But how was such an examination of the catalogues to be conducted?
27378	But is the earth moving in this manner?
27378	But what are the facts of the case?
27378	But what are the facts?
27378	But what were the facts?
27378	But what will be the path which it pursues?
27378	But why do we think the words large and small rightly applied here?
27378	But why is this so important?
27378	But would this extinction of the sunlight have any other effect?
27378	But, it may be asked, how did Herschel know this?
27378	By whom was this great discovery made?
27378	Can any velocity be greater than that?
27378	Can it be true that these countless orbs are really majestic suns, sunk to an appalling depth in the abyss of unfathomable space?
27378	Can the fires in the sun be maintained by combustion, analogous to that which goes on in our furnaces?
27378	Can the moon ever escape from the thraldom of the tides?
27378	Can we discover the laws of their seemingly capricious movements?
27378	Can we hesitate to say that such an attraction does exist?
27378	Can we realise a speed so tremendous?
27378	Could it be that Uranus was really attracted by some other planet at that time utterly unknown?
27378	Could it not be that Saturn draws Uranus aside, and thus causes the changes?
27378	Could these three bodies be identical?
27378	Could this be Uranus?
27378	Could we doubt for a moment as to which of the many orbs in the universe should be the first to receive our attention?
27378	Did even one planet revolve inside the orbit of Mercury?
27378	Do we know anything of their nature and of the marvellous tails with which they are often decorated?
27378	Do we not seem here to be in the presence of a contradiction?
27378	Does it seem likely that volcanoes on the moon can ever launch forth missiles which fall upon the earth?
27378	Does not gravitation control the moon in its revolution around the earth?
27378	Does not the earth revolve in an ellipse round the sun?
27378	From what does the elliptic motion in the solar system arise?
27378	Has Saturn perhaps, devoured his own children?
27378	Has its long journey been finished?
27378	Have they vanished and suddenly fled?
27378	Have we not already seen that our satellite is so much smaller than the earth that eighty moons rolled into one would not weigh as much as the earth?
27378	Have we not had occasion to observe that the stars themselves are in actual motion?
27378	Have we not repeatedly laid down the universality of the laws of Kepler in controlling the planetary motions?
27378	Have we not said that the outbreak of brilliancy in this star occurred between the 20th and the 24th of November, 1876?
27378	Have we not said that the tides are caused by the moon?
27378	Have we not stated that Jupiter is 1,300 times as_ large_ as the earth?
27378	Having decided to choose a comet, the next question is,_ What_ comet?
27378	How are the tests to be applied in a case of this kind?
27378	How are these to be discriminated?
27378	How are we to account for this difference?
27378	How are we to account for this remarkable arrangement of the stars?
27378	How are we to place our great earth in the weighing scales?
27378	How could it be sustained without tangible support, like the legendary coffin of Mahomet?
27378	How does our satellite move?
27378	How has the meteorite escaped this fate?
27378	How is it related to the earth?
27378	How is this discrepancy to be removed?
27378	How is this to be done?
27378	How large are they, and how far off?
27378	How much farther can we go?
27378	How shall we adequately describe the extreme minuteness of the parallactic ellipses in the case of even the nearest stars?
27378	How then can we reconcile this law with the irregularities proved beyond a doubt to exist in the motions of Uranus?
27378	How then comes it that he is only 316 times as_ heavy_?
27378	How was Uranus discovered?
27378	How was he to select the object on which so much labour was to be expended?
27378	How would you know if it commingled with the vapour of many other metals or other substances?
27378	How would you recognise it?
27378	How, then, can we weigh a mighty planet vastly larger than the earth, and distant from us by some hundreds of millions of miles?
27378	How, then, was he to secure his priority if the discovery should turn out correct, and at the same time be enabled to perfect it at his leisure?
27378	How, then, was the planet to be pursued through its period of invisibility and identified when it again came within reach of observation?
27378	If anyone stationed on the moon were to look at the earth through a telescope, would he be able to see any water here?
27378	If it be difficult to measure the speed of a rifle bullet, what shall we say of the speed of a ray of light, which is nearly a million times as great?
27378	If not a star, what, then, could it be?
27378	If the earth attracts the moon, why does not the moon tumble down on the earth?
27378	If the earth is attracted by the sun, why does it not tumble into the sun?
27378	If the motion of Mars were purely elliptic, how, it may well be said, could it perform this extraordinary evolution?
27378	If the object of his attention be not a star, what, then, can it be?
27378	If the sun is attracted by other stars, why do they not rush together with a frightful collision?
27378	If we have rightly comprehended the truth of dynamics( and who is there now that can doubt them?
27378	If, then, all the solid bodies we can see are round globes, is it not likely that the earth is a globe also?
27378	Is it going to complete the circuit of the heavens?
27378	Is it likely that meteors equal in mass to the moon fall into the sun every year?
27378	Is it lost for ever?
27378	Is not air transparent, and how, therefore, could our telescopes be expected to show whether the moon really possessed such an envelope?
27378	Is not even the mighty earth itself retained in its path around the sun by the surpassing power of the sun''s attraction?
27378	Is not heat, it may be said, a question merely of experimental physics?
27378	Is not motion in an ellipse common enough?
27378	Is not this in conflict with the doctrine of universal gravitation?
27378	Is the earth really rigid?
27378	It fell; it was seen to fall from the sky; but what was its course anterior to that movement?
27378	Now, why is this?
27378	Or is there really a discrepancy at all?
27378	Or were the appearances indeed illusion or fraud, with which the glasses have so long deceived me, as well as many others to whom I have shown them?
27378	Seeing, then, our almost complete ignorance of the solid contents of the earth, does it not seem a hopeless task to attempt to weigh the entire globe?
27378	Shall we find any difference in the periods of vibration?
27378	Suppose, for instance, the sun attracts a globe of this character, what movements will be the result?
27378	The question then arises as to how we are to recognise the body when it does come back?
27378	The speculation is intended to answer the question, What brought the moon into that position, close to the surface of the earth?
27378	Then if these orbits be not circles, what are they?
27378	Then, as to the other bodies of our system, what are we to say of those mysterious objects, the comets?
27378	Through what regions of space has it wandered?
27378	Uranus is constantly moving about; does it not seem that there is every element of uncertainty in such an investigation?
27378	Was this really a case of parabolic motion?
27378	We are able to give some answer to the question-- How far are the stars?
27378	We could not expect Mars to have large moons, but why should it be unlike its two neighbours, and not have any moon at all?
27378	We have been speaking of the past; we have been conducted to the present; can we say anything of the future?
27378	We must ask, whence comes the heat sufficient to supply this lavish outgoing?
27378	What are its landscapes like?
27378	What can be more solid and unyielding than the mass of rocks and metals which form the earth, so far as it is accessible to us?
27378	What can be told about the shooting- stars which so often dash into our atmosphere and perish in a streak of splendour?
27378	What connection can then be traced?
27378	What could this unknown body be, and where must it be situated?
27378	What do we know of the satellites of Jupiter and of the rings of Saturn?
27378	What does it matter whether the sun be 95,000,000 miles off, or whether it be only 93,000,000, or any other distance?
27378	What fingers could be nimble enough to do this?
27378	What is an advance of one mile in comparison with the distance to the centre of the earth?
27378	What is it which makes each star seem to close in towards the point towards which the earth is travelling?
27378	What is more familiar than the fact that when a stone is dropped it will fall to the ground?
27378	What is that agent, whence does it proceed, and to what laws is it submitted?
27378	What is the Moon?
27378	What is the reason of our seeing so few at the parts of the heavens farthest from the Milky Way, and so very many in or near that wonderful belt?
27378	What is this force which guides the planets in their paths?
27378	What must be the shape of an object which satisfies the conditions here implied?
27378	What of the Milky Way?
27378	What of those glorious objects, the great star clusters?
27378	What shape of orbit should next be tried?
27378	What was the intellectual triumph which brought the planet Neptune to light?
27378	What was to keep it from falling?
27378	Whence come the beautiful hues with which we are all familiar?
27378	Whence comes its heat?
27378	Where lies the limit to such a prospect?
27378	Where was it 100 years ago, 1,000 years ago?
27378	Where, then, has this heat come from?
27378	Which of these courses was the moon to adopt?
27378	Who has not been delighted with the view of this glorious object?
27378	Who is there that has not watched, with admiration, the beautiful series of changes through which the moon passes every month?
27378	Why did it never fall before?
27378	Why has it actually now fallen?
27378	Why is it that each star should seem to describe a small circular path?
27378	Why is it, then, that it is regarded as of so much scientific importance?
27378	Why should it be completed exactly in a twelvemonth?
27378	Why should that path be parallel to the ecliptic?
27378	Why, it may be said, was not such an enquiry instituted at once?
27378	With the stars as our beacons, what ought we to expect if our system be really in motion?
27378	Would Lemonnier have made as good use of his fame as Herschel did?
27378	Would it influence the countless brilliant points that stud the heavens at midnight?
27378	Yet, what ratio must the volume of this great globe bear to the whole extent of infinite space?
27378	[ 25]"What,"he remarks,"is to be said concerning so strange a metamorphosis?
27378	and how can it be legitimately introduced into a treatise upon the heavenly bodies and their movements?
27378	and must it not intercept the sunlight from every object on the other side of the earth to the sun?"
27378	and must not the energy, therefore, be derived from the moon?
27378	what is his evidence?
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