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1.  Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science / Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909
   beyond our powers. Every one now knows that the Milky Way, that girdle of light which spans the evening ... in the Milky Way as telescope power is increased. The number of new stars brought out with our greatest power  details...
   • creator(s) - Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909
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   • subject(s) - stars; telescope; milky way; scientific; science; stars; telescope; scientific; science; milky way;
   • title - Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
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2.  Curiosities of the Sky / Serviss, Garrett P. (Garrett Putman), 1851-1929
   at the fathomless sea of pure darkness which encloses all. The Galaxy, or Milky Way, surrounds the borders ... , up to the very edge of the yawning gap, the sheen of the Milky Way is surpassingly glorious; but there  details...
   • creator(s) - Serviss, Garrett P. (Garrett Putman), 1851-1929
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   • subject(s) - solar; comet; nebula; nebul; milky way; stars; milky; hypothesis; zodiacal light; planet; spiral nebul; star; sun; mars; solar system; zodiacal light; hypothesis; milky; stars; nebul; star; solar system; sun; spiral nebul; solar; comet; mars; planet; milky way; nebula;
   • title - Curiosities of the Sky
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3.  Meteorology / Aristotle
   in the region nearest to the motion of the stars. Such are the milky way, and comets, and the movements ... and the distinctions already drawn and then explain the 'milky way' and comets and the other phenomena akin to these  details...
   • creator(s) - Aristotle
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   • subject(s) - moisture; moist; heat; earth; dry; water; motion; sun; milky way; summer solstice; wind; homogeneous bodies; western philosophy; earth; homogeneous bodies; western philosophy; moisture; sun; summer solstice; moist; wind; motion; milky way; water; heat; dry;
   • title - Meteorology
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4.  ABC's of Science / Oliver, Charles A. (Charles Alexander), 1858-1932
   and parabolic comets. 5. Unconcentrated material called Milky Ways, and rings such as are around Saturn. 6 ... . Milky ways eddys. 7. Saturn is the only body we know which has an unconcentrated obsequious attendant  details...
   • creator(s) - Oliver, Charles A. (Charles Alexander), 1858-1932
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   • subject(s) - magnetism; diameter; orbit; protoplasm; satellites; vapor; saturn; rotates; ducts; planet; comets; comet; neptune; crust; milky; currents; solar; miles; current; atoms; vegetable; comprised; oliver; flourish; deposits; concentrated; sun; nerves; science; concentrated; saturn; crust; milky; ducts; comets; miles; atoms; vapor; rotates; satellites; nerves; deposits; sun; vegetable; currents; solar; comprised; oliver; comet; science; orbit; neptune; current; planet; flourish; magnetism; diameter; protoplasm;
   • title - ABC's of Science
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5.  Kant's cosmogony as in his Essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens, with introd., appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham. Edited and translated by W. Hastie. / Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
   the systematic Constitution of the Universe, the Milky Way, and the Nebulae. He considers that his book ... was founded on patient observation of the stars in the Milky Way with unprecedented telescopic powers  details...
   • creator(s) - Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
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   • publisher - Glasgow J. Maclehose 1900
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   • subject(s) - cosmogony; kant; rotation; planets; particles; plane; theory; axial rotation; system; milky way; centre; lord kelvin; motion; stars; solar system; rotation; stars; solar system; planets; system; motion; milky way; kant; centre; axial rotation; theory; lord kelvin; kant, immanuel, 1724-1804; plane; cosmogony; particles;
   • title - Kant's cosmogony as in his Essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens, with introd., appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham. Edited and translated by W. Hastie.
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6.  Kant's cosmogony [microform] : as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his natural history and theory of the heavens : with introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham / edited and translated by W. Hasti / Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
   the systematic Constitution of the Universe, the Milky Way, and the Nebulae. He considers that his book ... of the stars in the Milky Way with unprecedented telescopic powers, and it was pre- sented as the result  details...
   • creator(s) - Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
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   • subject(s) - nebular hypothesis; earth rotation; cosmogony; kant; rotation; planets; laplace; particles; kant's universal; saturn; theory; axial rotation; plane; comets; planet; orbits; system; hypothesis; milky way; centre; motion; circular; stars; scientific; formation; solar system; lord kelvin; saturn; nebular hypothesis; comets; rotation; stars; earth rotation; formation; solar system; circular; planets; system; planet; motion; milky way; kant; orbits; hypothesis; centre; axial rotation; kant's universal; theory; scientific; lord kelvin; kant, immanuel, 1724-1804; plane; cosmogony; laplace; particles;
   • title - Kant's cosmogony [microform] : as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his natural history and theory of the heavens : with introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham / edited and translated by W. Hasti
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7.  I Stood Tip-Toe Upon A Little Hill / Keats, John
   to my vision started; So I straightway began to pluck a posey Of luxuries bright, milky, soft ...  details...
   • creator(s) - Keats, John
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   • subject(s) - starry; aye; sweet; awhile; crystal; toe; poet; tip; wings; cool; lover; green; tale; soft; silver; golden; english literature; wings; soft; poet; green; tip; sweet; awhile; lover; aye; cool; english literature; crystal; golden; starry; silver; tale; toe;
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8.  Charmides / Wilde, Oscar
   , And to the altar each man brought some goodly offering, A beechen cup brimming with milky foam ... of her breast Just brake in to their milky blossoming, This murderous paramour, this unbidden guest  details...
   • creator(s) - Wilde, Oscar
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   • subject(s) - amorous; leapt; glade; spear; dusky; shepherd; foam; dripping; lad; tangled; limbs; crimson; lips; crept; english literature; lad; glade; dripping; spear; dusky; shepherd; leapt; foam; crept; lips; english literature; limbs; amorous; crimson; tangled;
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9.  History of the planetary systems from Thales to Kepler. / Dreyer, J. L. E. (John Louis Emil), 1852-1926
   ; in the morning it becomes Tiu-nutiri, the god who hails the sun before his rising. The Milky Way ... and moon have been formed of matter detached from the Milky Way, the sun of the hot and subtle substance  details...
   • creator(s) - Dreyer, J. L. E. (John Louis Emil), 1852-1926
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   • publisher - Cambridge University Press 1906
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   • subject(s) - astronomy history; solar system; copernicus; planets; ptolemy; motion; sphere; plato; planet; moon; earth; theory; centre; spheres; sun; system; homocentric spheres; ptolemaic system; medieval cosmology; stars; astronomy history; plato; ptolemy; stars; solar system; sun; homocentric spheres; planets; system; sphere; planet; motion; spheres; earth; centre; theory; moon; medieval cosmology; copernicus; ptolemaic system;
   • title - History of the planetary systems from Thales to Kepler.
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10.  A Trip to Venus / Munro, John, 1849-1930
    the highest heavens and the silvery lustre of the Milky Way. The great belt of Orion shone conspicuously ... start for the Milky Way, and if all went right, their descendants would arrive there in the course  details...
    • creator(s) - Munro, John, 1849-1930
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    • subject(s) - gazen; carmichael; miss carmichael; alumion; venus; professor gazen; car; planet; replied gazen; planets; alumion; professor gazen; carmichael; replied gazen; planets; miss carmichael; venus; planet; car; gazen;
    • title - A Trip to Venus
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