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Title: Astronomy and the Bible;
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Reed, Lucas Albert
Subjects: Astronomy in the Bible Bible and science Religion and science
Publisher: Mountain View, Cal., Kansas City, Mo. (etc. ) Pacific press publishing assn
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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o a perfect investigation of the absolute placesof the stars. All these and many other preliminary matters hav-ing been satisfactorily determined, it became possibleto examine, in the most critical manner, the places ofthe stars, and to learn whether indeed (as had beensupposed for thousands of years) their configurationswere eternal and unchangeable, or whether they movedamong themselves with a motion rendered so slow bytheir immense distance, as hitherto to have escaped themost scrutinizing watch. Fully armed with the necessary instruments, it didnot require many years to determine the grand truth,that among the ten thousands of stars which fill theheaven, not a solitary one, in all probability, is in astate of absolute rest. Many were found to move soswiftly that their velocity was determined in a single •j^^^Ri SP-0-^;- (^^BWWMUMkj- .: *: if*^)l: ii^-jh^!- f. •^ • vv;;..:- ..---WW^ F I „ . -•^ I 1 ^^^im i l! ■Hwl^ r- ^ - • ! ^ f * ik^: Great Star Cloud in Sagittarius
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Region of the Great Nebula of Rho OphiuchiUpon a cloudless, moonless night, we look above us. THE FIXED STARS 145 year; while others, in consequence of their enormousdistance, may require centuries to detect any appre-ciable change. In the outset, these extraordinary move-ments seemed to be directed by no law — some starswere sweeping in one direction, and some in another. Motion, ceaseless, eternal motion, seems to bestamped on the entire universe; and while the starsare pursuing their mighty orbits, we cannot resistthe idea that our own sun, the center of our greatplanetary system, itself a star, must participate in thegeneral movement, and is, in all probability, urging itsflight, accompanied by all its planets, satellites, andcomets, to some unknown region of space. When forced to acknowledge the rotation of ourglobe on its axis, and its swift orbital motion, sur-rounded by wheeling planets and flying comets, themind naturally retreats to the sun as the great immov-able center,

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