...points, and causing the signs of the zodiac to shift backwards from their respective constellations. It always affords a sort of intellectual surprise...simple experimental elucidation of such phenomena and their laws will not be useless, as it tends to confirm in the mind of the student the great characteristic...

...points, and causing the signs of the zodiac to shift backwards from their respective constellations. It always affords a sort of intellectual surprise,...simple experimental elucidation of such phenomena and their laws will not be useless, as it tends to confirm in the mind of the student the great characteristic...

...points, and causing the signs of the zodiac to shift backwards from their respective constellations. It always affords a sort of intellectual surprise...simple experimental elucidation of such phenomena and their laws will not be useless, as it tends to confirm in the mind of the student the great characteristic...

...intellectual surprise to perceive for the first time the application of some simple and familiar mechauical principle to the grand phenomena of astronomy ; to...simple experimental elucidation of such phenomena and their laws will not be useless, as it tends to confirm in the mind of the student the great characteristic...

...conservation of areas in a ball whirled round by a string suddenly shortened ; or (as in the present ease) to perceive a celestial phenomenon, vast in its relations...simple experimental elucidation of such phenomena and their laws will not be useless, as it tends to confirm in the mind of the student the great characteristic...

...of laws which govern the motions of matter on earth and in the most distant regions of the heavens ; to perceive a celestial phenomenon, vast in its relations...conditions, identified as to its mechanical cause, with the rotary movement of a little apparatus on the table before us." A writer in the New York Tribune also...

...distant regions of the heavens; to perceive a celestial phenomenon, vast in its relations both to tune and space, and complex in its conditions, identified as to its mechanical cause, with the rotary movement of a little apparatus on the table before us." A writer in the New York Tribune also...

...of laws which govern the motions of matter on earth and in the most distant regions of the heavens ; to perceive a celestial phenomenon, vast in its relations...conditions, identified as to its mechanical cause, with the rotary movement of a little apparatus on the table before us." A writer hi the New Tork Tribune also...