Signs, Signals, Symbols seldom seen, science says sing silent songs
of the glory of the maker of five hundred million suns. I. The
Wonders of The Heavens. II. The Wonders of The Solar System. 111.
The Wonders of 'l'he Earth. IV. The Wonders of Life. V. The.
Wonders of Human Life. Go out at night, when the stars shine
bright, and look up at the heavens. A ring of light at a vast
height sweeps round amid the stars. A great half-circle it seems
-in our northern latitude, its two ends lost below the horizon. Go
south, below the equator, and you find it forms a mighty white
cloudy ribbon, running round the whole heavens. It inclines at an
angle of 63 degrees to the equinoctial, that imaginary plane where
the sun is when days and nights are equal. From far-off days, when
our race was young, men asked: What is it? Because of its
whiteness, the Greeks called it the Galaxy, from gala, "milk," and
we the Milky Way. Sweeping round the whole firmament, as a mighty
ring, looking like a bright, 'long, white expanse with irregular
borders, nowhere broken, it ever excited curiosity, and claimed the
study of the world's greatest minds. All was guesswork till the
telescope was invented. the two Herschels, Sir William and Sir
John, father and son, using the most powerful instruments known in
their -days, spent almost 'their whole lives in its study. The
greatest astronomers of all ages, in every civilized country, tried
to penetrate its mysteries, and in few words we will lay before the
reader the sum total of their labors. How can we make the reader
grasp the Wonders our instruments reveal, when so many learned men
have spent their whole lives studying the heavens how, will we
condense their discoveries into a few pages?
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