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Article THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HEAVENS. ← Page 3 of 4 →
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The Architecture Of The Heavens.
universe as yet known , a law which if ever discovered to be broken will only lose its universality because of some preponderating power of still more profound magnitude . " Judged in this true light tbe vastness of creation is comprised within a mighty plan ; and we , standing on this little world , can gsze around on its majesty and note its stupendous changes in peace , knowing that there is no hazard or caprice in mutabilitybut onlthe stern and steadfast power of law through which events
, y roll onward to their destiny . "—( p . 93 . ) Another discovery relative to these double stars is of so highly poetical a nature , that although not leading to any practical advance in our knowledge of their objects or design , we cannot refrain from alluding to it—it is that their light is characterized by a great variety of colour , and that instances abound in which a red and green star arc associated togetherand others where they are yellow and blue .
, Behold an untravelled region of the romantic here unfold itself ! " It may easier be suggested in words , " says Sir John Herschel , " than conceived in imagination what variety of illumination two stars—a red and a green , or a yellow and a blue , must afford a planet circulating around either ; and what cheering contrasts and grateful vicissitudes , a red and a green day for instance alternating with a white one and with darknessmight arise from the absence or presence of one or other , ov
, both from the horizon !" But these combinations of stars are not confined we discover to double revolutions round one another ; triple stars and stars of still more complex relationship have been discovered , and their relative revolutions noted and tested as the basis of continuous observation to lead ultimately to more accurate knowledge . £ in Cancer is a triple star in which three suns seem to revolve round a common centre , and in 4 > Cassiopex " one
sun probably revolves around a second , while the two in union—a sun and an associated sun—circulate around tho third . The quadruple star e , Lyne , is in all likelihood a quadruple system whose motions are exceedingly complex and singular—perhaps as follows :
C * G * B D * * A the star A revolving around B , the star C around 13 ; the system of A and B revolving around a point 0 between B and C , and the system of C and D being carried around the same point in another orbit . "
And systems still more complicated are known to exist—bow little then do we know as yet of run AnuinTi . eTi . iKi . or THE HEAVENS ; how small the amount of our knowledge when after so many centuries we have only reached the threshold of that mighty Temple , unbuilt of hands , which nevertheless has hung up above and beneath , and all around our solar system , so long utterly beyond our reach , so unapproachable even to our most daring flights of imagination . have
If too , as we must believe , these complicated systems of suns each their attendant life-spread p lanets subservient to their motionsbut the subject stretches beyond our feeble power of imagination , let us bow down in the dust and adore in trembling silence , the truest offering such insignificant atoms as man can make to HIM , to whom all this is but the smallest part of His creation . Wo have thus traced a portion of the discoveries made by the
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The Architecture Of The Heavens.
universe as yet known , a law which if ever discovered to be broken will only lose its universality because of some preponderating power of still more profound magnitude . " Judged in this true light tbe vastness of creation is comprised within a mighty plan ; and we , standing on this little world , can gsze around on its majesty and note its stupendous changes in peace , knowing that there is no hazard or caprice in mutabilitybut onlthe stern and steadfast power of law through which events
, y roll onward to their destiny . "—( p . 93 . ) Another discovery relative to these double stars is of so highly poetical a nature , that although not leading to any practical advance in our knowledge of their objects or design , we cannot refrain from alluding to it—it is that their light is characterized by a great variety of colour , and that instances abound in which a red and green star arc associated togetherand others where they are yellow and blue .
, Behold an untravelled region of the romantic here unfold itself ! " It may easier be suggested in words , " says Sir John Herschel , " than conceived in imagination what variety of illumination two stars—a red and a green , or a yellow and a blue , must afford a planet circulating around either ; and what cheering contrasts and grateful vicissitudes , a red and a green day for instance alternating with a white one and with darknessmight arise from the absence or presence of one or other , ov
, both from the horizon !" But these combinations of stars are not confined we discover to double revolutions round one another ; triple stars and stars of still more complex relationship have been discovered , and their relative revolutions noted and tested as the basis of continuous observation to lead ultimately to more accurate knowledge . £ in Cancer is a triple star in which three suns seem to revolve round a common centre , and in 4 > Cassiopex " one
sun probably revolves around a second , while the two in union—a sun and an associated sun—circulate around tho third . The quadruple star e , Lyne , is in all likelihood a quadruple system whose motions are exceedingly complex and singular—perhaps as follows :
C * G * B D * * A the star A revolving around B , the star C around 13 ; the system of A and B revolving around a point 0 between B and C , and the system of C and D being carried around the same point in another orbit . "
And systems still more complicated are known to exist—bow little then do we know as yet of run AnuinTi . eTi . iKi . or THE HEAVENS ; how small the amount of our knowledge when after so many centuries we have only reached the threshold of that mighty Temple , unbuilt of hands , which nevertheless has hung up above and beneath , and all around our solar system , so long utterly beyond our reach , so unapproachable even to our most daring flights of imagination . have
If too , as we must believe , these complicated systems of suns each their attendant life-spread p lanets subservient to their motionsbut the subject stretches beyond our feeble power of imagination , let us bow down in the dust and adore in trembling silence , the truest offering such insignificant atoms as man can make to HIM , to whom all this is but the smallest part of His creation . Wo have thus traced a portion of the discoveries made by the