160 Years Ago PRESCOTT TRANSCRIPT September 29, 1860 The Heavenly World The closing passage in one of Prof. Mitchell’s recent lectures in New York on Astronomy, after speaking of unfathomable …
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160 Years Ago
PRESCOTT TRANSCRIPT
September 29, 1860
The Heavenly World The closing passage in one of Prof. Mitchell’s recent lectures in New York on Astronomy, after speaking of unfathomable distances which no telescope can penetrate, lying far beyond and yet filled with independent systems of worlds of infinite numbers, was as follows.
“Light traverses space at the rate of a million miles a minutes yet the light from the nearest start requires ten years to reach the earth and Herschel’s telescope revealed stars 2,300 times further distant…
