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Are the Planets Inhabited? (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Are the Planets Inhabited?
In those days there seemed an immense differ ence between the earth upon which men stood, and the bright objects that shone down upon it from the heavens above. The earth seemed to be vast, dark, and motionless; the celestial lights seemed to be small, and moved, and shone. The earth was then regarded as the fixed centre of the universe, but the Copernican theory has Since deprived it of this pride of place. Yet from another point of View the new conce...
In those days there seemed an immense differ ence between the earth upon which men stood, and the bright objects that shone down upon it from the heavens above. The earth seemed to be vast, dark, and motionless; the celestial lights seemed to be small, and moved, and shone. The earth was then regarded as the fixed centre of the universe, but the Copernican theory has Since deprived it of this pride of place. Yet from another point of View the new conce...