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The Telescope

The Telescope is justly considered to be one of the noblest inventions which the annals of human ingenuity can boast of.

By its means the distant regions of space have been unveiled, and views of the material universe have been obtained, surpassing in splendour the most dazzling pictures of the imagination.

Its penetrating power has revealed to us the astonishing fact, that far beyond the visible confines of the starry firmament, there exist countless myriads of suns and systems of suns, each of these glorious luminaries being in all probability the centre of a numerous c o r t e g e o f r e v o l v i n g w o r l d s

History of Physical Astronomy By Robert Grant, F.R.A.S.

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