Astronomy
The undersigned ventures to put forth this report of Mr. EVERETT'S Oration, in connection with a condensed account of the Inauguration of the Dudley Observatory, and the Dedication of the New State Geological Hall, at Albany,--in the hope that the demand which has exhausted th...
That was the house, "where," says Milton (another of those of whom the world was not worthy), "I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old--a prisoner to the Inquisition,...
4. Chapter 42. The second great practical use of an Astronomical Observatory is connected with the science of geography. The first page of the history of our Continent declares this truth....
2. Chapter 2Science is to art what the great fly-wheel and governor of a steam-engine are to the working part of the machinery--it guides, regulates, and controls the whole. Science and art...
1. Chapter 1The undersigned ventures to put forth this report of Mr. EVERETT'S Oration, in connection with a condensed account of the Inauguration of the Dudley Observatory, and the Dedicat...
3. Chapter 3This state of things is certainly recent. During the colonial period and in the first generation after the Revolution, no department of science was, for obvious causes, very ext...
6. Chapter 6If, still treading the loftiest paths of analogy, we adopt the supposition,--to me I own the grateful supposition,--that the countless planetary worlds which attend these countl...