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The Heavenly Bodies Their Nature And Habitability
Author: William Miller

THE HEAVENLY BODIES THE HEAVENLY BODIES TREIR NATURE AND HABITABILITY - 1883 - PREFACE. - EARLY five-and-thirty years ago an idea, entered N in a note-book, occurred , to me regarding plurality of worlds, which at that time I imagined went far to unsettle the prevailing belief, and to decide a question subsequently much agitated. The little pape... more »r in which it w e s mb odied, lying so long dormant, has been the germ of the present work. From a jotting on it I see I had in 18 6 0 observed that another had, in - a published book, struck out a similar idea, and it has since been repeated by other writers. It was then, if not previously, I presume, I became desirous to take up and examine the whole subject in all its bearings but the incessant claims of an anxious profession altogether precluded the attempt, and it is only of recent date I have had it in my power to effect my purpose, and to bestow upon the subject the amount of study which I found to be requisite. . I may not, however, conceal from myself that many will, with justice, con side that for one who cannot appear with the knowledge and authority of an astronomer, either practical or theoretical, it is a piece of bold presumption to endeavour to handle the matters to which this volume relates. In extenuation, I can only say that the occupations of my profession are favourable to the consideration of anything vhich demands close inquiry, and to the formation of soundly reasoned conclusions while I have, in the course of an experience now extending over many years, had sometimes in the conduct of what have been causes cdlkbres in their day opportunities of studying, and generally of writing on, questions arising out of matters of extremely diversified nature. Nor have I dared to enter upon the scientific topics embraced in this book without investigating with, at least, the patient care I have always, when the rush and hurry of business would permit, sought to bring to bear on questions upon the solution of which material interests have depended. Still, in gathering, and dealing with, the evidence, which only others have been competent to furnish, I have necessarily experienced many difficulties, and would often have been glad to have had a chance of putting the witnesses under interrogation. I can only trust to have made unfamiliar subjects clear to the general apprehension, and that any opinions expressed will be found sufficiently supported. At same time, vii considering that these pages embrace so nucllo f wliat to most people is new, it may not be unreasonable to expect, unless there have been failure to use the proper means for securing attention, that, if they do not allure to brighter worlds, they may at least help to lead the reader into fields of research which afford some of the purest and noblest subjects of meditation. To discuss such a subject as the plurality of worlds may be viewed differently by different minds. An American astronomer of the present day Professor Newcomb thus writes regarding it The question whether other planets are, as a general rule, peopled, is one of the highest interest to us, not oilly as involving our place in creation, but as showing us what is seally greatest in the Universe. Many thinking people regard the discovery of evidence of life in other worlds as the great ultimate object of telescopic research...

ISBN-13: 9781408612040
ISBN-10: 1408612046
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 368
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