Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-10-04
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| AhrAuuut "A4puh now loWhlu uthNtus
and tell the stars, n thou be able 10
numbor them" He also said, $50
shall thy seed be-" and In promising
an inheritance 10 tho patriarch He
stated ufiher, 81 will make thy seed
AZ the dust OF The earth; 30 that II
man can number the dust Of the earth,
then fhall thy seed also be numbered"
BY these comparisons the Lord illus.
traies the multiplicity Of Ills creations
a. seen In the heavenly planets, and
the impossibiliiy Of mortal beings
making a calculation Of their number;
for Abfahan1 seed were TO be count.
less 10 the dust Of the earth or the stars
In tho armament. In the October
North dmsricdn ReUisW Sir Edwin
Arnold, who, besides his fame as poet,
holds mr. eminent position M tcion-
tist, contributes an article dealing with
astronomy, In which no presents some
Interesting facts and suggestiona re-
garding tho vastneSs of the number Of
worlds which science has demonstrated
a. existing In the universe A. brought
within the range Of vision by aid Of the
TELESCOPES.
Sir Edwin points out that Calico, In
hls sidorehl Messenger, made n mnpOf
eighty now stars which he had dis.
covered In tbs considerations OF orion's
Belt and this Sword; aud that since
then astronomer after astronomer has
added various groups aud galaxies to
the two or three thousand conspicuous
stars Of the first siK magniludee which
always can DO seen with the naked
eye. IL 10 curious and not clmpll.
moniary TO the good sense OF mankind,
says the writer, that those stars should
have been looked upon As merely In
tended to spangio tho sky and give
light at night As lamps they were
always failure. Sixty times the total
starlight on the clearost night would
not equal the illumination given by
the moor; and thirty.three million
timea their radiance would be TO.
quired TO equal sunlight Yet ine
stars which are seen even by powoi-
full telescope are now know to be only
an iuslgnincent proportion o! those
ac'ualy e1is1ing inside Visible
spAce.v
uolng hfther' Sir Edwin points
OUT 'hh teie'oopio photography Is
pfAcuoeu To-Day Ia All the ooservaiories,
reveals IN almost every apparently
oiank region OF the celestial sphere,
counties new and distant worlds, ~
ing inr beyond all methods OF mortal
computation ana Measurement The
only "ioo' rule" with which there are
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