The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1883-01-28

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The great blue dome of the Halstead Oh
servatory rising boldly above the lofty walls Of
gray stone. which lift II out Of the dust and
smoke Of the little town. II the most striking
edlfice in Princeton. It gives an air OF erudt-
ton to tho place. The traveller seeing II con-
fronting him ~ no alights ct the railroad sta
ton feels at once that he is In a university
town. where the gravity OF learning lends I'M
wonted weight and dignity to all things. oven
to the cbanticleor who. somewhat haughtily.
though graveiy and decorousy eyes him from
neighboring fence without INDUCING In any
unscholariy and unmannerly growing One
can imagine the Spaniafds looking with some
thing like awe upon the returned ships of
Columbus. great observatory seems TO pro-
duce q similar effect. The magical charm OF
discovery hovcrs around it-dlscovcry not
among continents and islands on the other
side Of tho earth. but among suns and worlds
soaring IN the heavens. many Of which arc far
grander and more glorious than our own.
Tho new telescope which has recently boon
mounted In the observatory at Princeton is.
with the exception Of the one In Washington.
the largest IN this country. Its object glass
Lacks Spt one inch q Icing a Two ieet r. DIANE lame
thirty feet long. II ranks with the half dozen
telescopic giants which within few years have
ben PLACED n t6e hands Of the
ments the public has heard but little. Sir Will
liam Herschoi would have thrown away his
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being done In the great observatory ey over over,
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mind Quitting .t shs E. oHsth r. It we're
~ engines rs and thS
have linked together the four quarters OF the
Take. iqs iSstancs. her studies q the planet
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msds cdfSf man 81 re ,., whole planet
sstsonomsr were suddenly ''' TRANSPORTED to
Mars and set down at some given point
s so sh.s se nS us
| tude and longitude. no would know. that in q
certain direction and at distance Of certain
IN his maps the Lake &C 81 the Sun or LocEyer
sea, and that IN another direction was the
mainland what the general shape Of the land
sea coast II the inhabtants Of Mars were not
inclined to maritime enterprise and geoEraphi,
aa tneS ss aS to tell Of hs
Of their globe and might, perhaps; earn e.
opening n school for Instruction in martial
geography. These same astronomers have not
materials It is composed. but they have also
analyzcd the stars and shown that in many OF
are familiar on earth. They have proved that,
80 inr from +. our srn being the only one the
suns. They have found that worlds and suns as
go through process OF dsyclopment: and By
oSSshg ~ INC sneS h o. star they can tel
tho sun. They have discovered suns. some
larger than ours. which. grouped together
swinging around 2 common centre. They have
found spots in the heavens TIN, tint ar. are fairly
ons may look upon chaos itself. for they tell us
that the so-called gaseous nebuIte arc really
been organized into solar systems. NV ~
In view Of those facts. IN account Of the
w9ndestui scenes which len arc 3psnsd up IN TIE
scope and which are seldom enjoyed by any
i"s Ss must in
charge q one Of the foremost q living ,astron.
Of the most Important additions to ASTRONOMY.
cal science which It has received In modern
spent an evening in the Princeton observatory,
tells II this t story 81 what he saw ,,..,..
Saturn WIN sm. aesoope and have never
known person to look Mt that planet for tho
first time even with such an instrument. with.
Saturn. as shown by the Princeton telescope.
WAS q revelation to me. Think OF a, globe
pended in space in the middle Of three or four
concentric rings. which are nearly AZ, 900 miles
but less than 100 miles thick. and turned edge
Wise toward the p,aGGets This t
meons that reSoive around Il, appears s to The
IMAGINE it brought so near that It's globe
the full moon. while all Its surround
inss are equally ,magniaed. and YOU viii
escope.. The question. naturally arises in tho
mind q the observer: L. It possible that this
easy for the Imagination to picture the appear,
ance OF those rings as seen from different
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in three Or four centuries they viii touch It and
aoaens that man has ever looked upon sii
event the destruction Of The. rings would be for
the inhabitants to look forward toll But
to Sss how Psn
that Saturn is not yet inhabited Every
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down and ,permansntly crustsd over like the
sSan the ssa Thss
perhaps partly vapor0us condition. But the
effect Of the mere reading Of such statements
actually looking upon world which has not
yet cooled down. Az ghzed At Saturn saw
how tho earth probably looked ages before man
was created. when II was without form and
void and when 'darkness was upon the faces
intensely Interesting thing to 30 thus brought
face TO face with that awful genesis OF world.
cesses which are vaguely limited at in the
Bible history OF the earth q beginning saturn's
future oceans are suspended ~ mighty clouds
motion that 10 all but perceptible In the tel
escope. was not fortunate enough to witness
escopes have shown the distortions In the
planets outline produced BY the heaying OF the
continents. yet burning hot or perhaps mere
expanses OF liquid FIRE are hidden beneath q
to receive and nourish living beinga. what a
magnificent world It will be! All the earth 9
fftesn hundred MILLIONS Of Inhabitants would