The Plurality of Worlds
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A verse credited to Night Thoughts reads, "On Nature's Alps I stand, And see a thousand firmaments beneath!" The verse asks what are the natives of this world sublime, of this so distant, unterrestrial sphere. The title page names an introduction by Edward Hitchcock, President of Amherst College and Professor of Theology and Geology.
The text says that, according to astronomers, the earth is not a level space, but a globe. The text says it was not that the Psalmist thought that, among a multitude of earths, all peopled like this earth, man might seem to be in danger of being overlooked and neglected by his Maker. The text says that so far as the Nebulæ are concerned, the improbability of their being inhabited appears to mount to the highest point that can be conceived. The text says that with regard to the planets and the stars, if we reason at all, we must reason on physical grounds.
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- William Whewell
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- 170
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- Astronomy
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