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110 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE tionhadindeedbeenreached. Thattheirdistancewas enormous, wasmade evident from the factthatthe parallaxh ...

CELESTIALMAGNITUDES 111 across thecenterof the fieldof view, and pictured uponthe heavens. These are withinthe controlof theobse ...

112 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE thecircuitoftheheavens,theirmotionwouldbede- tectedinhalfayear. "Withmachinerymore delicateeventhanthis ...

AttheEyepieceofaLargeTelescope Sa ...

ASegmentoftheCoronaoftheSun P^romapholographtakenatthe]\IountWilson Observatory, in southern California, when the sun was in tot ...

CELESTIALMAGNITUDES 113 preciablechangeremained,itcouldonlybeattributed toparallax. "Aftera most carefuland elaborate investigat ...

114 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE flight, flyingineverysecond 186,000miles, cancom- pleteitsmightyjourney! "Ifthemind revoltsatthisconclu ...

CELESTIALMAGNITUDES 115 indiameter,thestarAlphaCentauriappearstotrace outeachyearaminuteovalpathonthecelestialsphere, thegreater ...

116 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE orbitoftheearthwerelightedupintoaglobeoffire 600 millions of miles incircumference, it wouldbe seenbyth ...

CELESTIALMAGNITUDES 111 gionsofimmensity, theremaybea sensibleparallax tosome of thefixed stars;yetas to the Father of lights,vi ...

118 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE blazeswithamagnificenceequaltothatofourown. Herewepause,andlookoutuponthestarryheavens whichsurroundus. ...

CELESTIALMAGNITUDES^119 'Ithasbeenconsideredprobable,fromreconditein- vestigations,thattheaveragedistanceofastarofthe firstmagni ...

120 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE him from hisrobes offlesh; cleansehisvision, and putanewbreathintohisnostrils:onlytouchnotwith anychang ...

CELESTIALMAGNITUDES 121 "Thenthemansighed,andstopped,shuddered,and wept. Hisoverladenheartuttereditselfintears,and hesaid: 'Ange ...

CHAPTERXI TheInfinitudeofSpace IT is impossible forthe human mind to putany limittospace. Werunoutintotheunfathomable abyss as f ...

THEINFINITUDEOFSPACE 123 mindgrowsdizzywiththethought;theheartisdumb withawe. Canitbe so? Istherenolimittospace? Wewillsupposeit ...

124 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE thousandyears,andwillcontinuethesamerapidcourse for athousand million years to come. It is highly proba ...

THEINFINITUDEOFSPACE 125 done,saiththeLord." Jer. 31 :37. Ah,mysoul,that Wordmustbesure! "SaiththeLord"comes asthe introduction, ...

126 ASTRONOMYANDTHEBIBLE ithelpyoutorealizethesuretyofHiscovenant? As youlookoutyonderintotheabyssthatreachesonward to thestars, ...

CHAPTERXII As the Moon WHENEVERyouconsultanalmanactoknow whentherewillbeafullmoon, ortoknow whenthemoonwillriseorwhenitwillset, ...