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On The Night Scene Of Homer.
amid the lesser lights . But it is perilous tampering svith such splendid pictures . Behold tbe master-piece—admire , but touch not . Though the celebrated paraphrase of Pope must be in every one ' s recollection , sve have ventured to prefix a plain version , to recal reminiscence of the severer simpler text . A characteristic specimen of Pope ' s treatment of the original occurs in his rendering of the very passage in question : — " A flood of glory bursts from all the skies . " TOXOTES .
Discovery Of The Central Sun.
DISCOVERY OF THE CENTRAL SUN .
As astronomy , sve are told , svas one of the principal sciences taught and studied by the ancient Freemasons—more particularly by Pythagoras , who secretl y instructed his disciples in the true theory of the solar system , long aftersvards adopted and demonstrated by Copernicusit may not be out of place in these pages to enter the record of any great discovery or nesv doctrine connected svith the science . And though the recent researches and results obtained bLe Verrier be among the most
y important and svonderful in the annals of astronomy , yet sve give a place here to the recent investigations of Dr . Maedler , as less knosvn , though in some respects perhaps not less extraordinary . In December 1846 , Dr . A'laedler , director of the observatory at Dorpat , announced that he had arrived at the discovery of the great central point , round si'hich the universe of stars , our osvn sun and system includedis revolving . To use his osvn svords— " I the Pleiades
, pronounce to be the central group of that mass of fixed stars limited by the stratum composing the Milky AVay , and Alcyone as the individual star of this group , svhich , among all others , combines the greatest probability of being the true central sun . " We must refer to other sources for the train of reasoning and detail of facts b y svhich the laborious observer arrived at tbis conclusion , based originally upon the researches of Sir William Herschel . who found chat the solar svstem svas nnnroximatinor
to the constellation Hercules . Dr . Alaedler further finds the tlistance of the great central star , Alcyone , to be thirty-four millions of times the distance of the sun , or so remote that li ght requires a period of 537 years to pass from that centre to our sun ; and , as a first rough approximation , he deduces tbe period of our sun , with all its train of planets , satellites , and comets , about the grantl centre , to be 18 , 200 , 000 years . Tbe author of this theory declares that he svill yield it on the contlition that
one single star can be found by any astronomer svithin twenty or twenty-five tiegrees of his grantl centre , in which a svell-determined motion tosvards the north exists . His theory indicates that the proper motion of all stats thus situated must be tosvards the south . His conclusions have been the result of many years most laborious calculation and observation , and they are as yet too recently promulgated to ascertain svhat proportion of svei ght they may have svith astronomers in genera ) .
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On The Night Scene Of Homer.
amid the lesser lights . But it is perilous tampering svith such splendid pictures . Behold tbe master-piece—admire , but touch not . Though the celebrated paraphrase of Pope must be in every one ' s recollection , sve have ventured to prefix a plain version , to recal reminiscence of the severer simpler text . A characteristic specimen of Pope ' s treatment of the original occurs in his rendering of the very passage in question : — " A flood of glory bursts from all the skies . " TOXOTES .
Discovery Of The Central Sun.
DISCOVERY OF THE CENTRAL SUN .
As astronomy , sve are told , svas one of the principal sciences taught and studied by the ancient Freemasons—more particularly by Pythagoras , who secretl y instructed his disciples in the true theory of the solar system , long aftersvards adopted and demonstrated by Copernicusit may not be out of place in these pages to enter the record of any great discovery or nesv doctrine connected svith the science . And though the recent researches and results obtained bLe Verrier be among the most
y important and svonderful in the annals of astronomy , yet sve give a place here to the recent investigations of Dr . Maedler , as less knosvn , though in some respects perhaps not less extraordinary . In December 1846 , Dr . A'laedler , director of the observatory at Dorpat , announced that he had arrived at the discovery of the great central point , round si'hich the universe of stars , our osvn sun and system includedis revolving . To use his osvn svords— " I the Pleiades
, pronounce to be the central group of that mass of fixed stars limited by the stratum composing the Milky AVay , and Alcyone as the individual star of this group , svhich , among all others , combines the greatest probability of being the true central sun . " We must refer to other sources for the train of reasoning and detail of facts b y svhich the laborious observer arrived at tbis conclusion , based originally upon the researches of Sir William Herschel . who found chat the solar svstem svas nnnroximatinor
to the constellation Hercules . Dr . Alaedler further finds the tlistance of the great central star , Alcyone , to be thirty-four millions of times the distance of the sun , or so remote that li ght requires a period of 537 years to pass from that centre to our sun ; and , as a first rough approximation , he deduces tbe period of our sun , with all its train of planets , satellites , and comets , about the grantl centre , to be 18 , 200 , 000 years . Tbe author of this theory declares that he svill yield it on the contlition that
one single star can be found by any astronomer svithin twenty or twenty-five tiegrees of his grantl centre , in which a svell-determined motion tosvards the north exists . His theory indicates that the proper motion of all stats thus situated must be tosvards the south . His conclusions have been the result of many years most laborious calculation and observation , and they are as yet too recently promulgated to ascertain svhat proportion of svei ght they may have svith astronomers in genera ) .