. Astronomy and the Bible; . A Peculiar Nebular Formation in Cygnus 4a. Region of the North American Nebula Vast numbers of stars, most of them larger than our sun, that stagger the imagination, and overwhelm the reason. In their midst is the weird, mystic nebula. Note the peculiar outlines that give it the name. THE A TMO SPHERIC HE A VENS 49 Men were everywhere using their rude devices forraising water in pumps, without the least idea of whatthey were doing. The action that was taking placebefore their eyes never entered into their compre-hension. If any one had told them that, in raising ap
. Astronomy and the Bible; . A Peculiar Nebular Formation in Cygnus 4a. Region of the North American Nebula Vast numbers of stars, most of them larger than our sun, that stagger the imagination, and overwhelm the reason. In their midst is the weird, mystic nebula. Note the peculiar outlines that give it the name. THE A TMO SPHERIC HE A VENS 49 Men were everywhere using their rude devices forraising water in pumps, without the least idea of whatthey were doing. The action that was taking placebefore their eyes never entered into their compre-hension. If any one had told them that, in raising apump bucket, they were lifting a portion of the weightof the atmosphere from the water under the bucket,so that the excess of this pressure, exerted on the sur-face of the water in the well, would force the columnof water in the pump barrel up after the bucket, therewere centuries when such a teacher would have beenin danger of being burned up. This, with all similar phenomena, was explainedby the dictum that nature abhors a vacuum. Thisnonsense passed for science thr
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