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THE CREATION OF SUN, MOON AND STARS

(From the fresco by Michaelangelo Buonarroti in the Sistine Chapel, Rome)

LITERATURE OF SCIENCE

BEING EXTRACTS FROM THE WRITINGS

OF MEN OF SCIENCE TO ILLUSTRATE THE
DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT

Arranged by

WILLIAM CECIL DAMPIER WHETHAM,
M.A., F.R.S., Fellow and Sometime Senior Tutor
of Trinity College, Cambridge