And as little ground is there to take exception or offense at modern astronomy, even on that side of it where difficulties were originally most felt and mooted.
The language of the Bible with respect to the circuit of the sun is found to have anticipated one of the most sublime discoveries of modern astronomy.
The evidences of design in the formation of the solar system--of that kind of design which acts in direct and specific exertions of a formative will--have been enormously multiplied by the discoveries of modern astronomy.
But this view is, as most readers at this time are aware, very different from that presented to us by Modern Astronomy.
Chalmers, in his Astronomical Discourses, has treated the reflection thus suggested, in connection with such an aspect of the heavens and the stars, the earth and the universe, as modern astronomy presents to us.
Each of these and many other suppositions have been duly formulated by the ancient philosophers and sages, although, as we are told by modern astronomy, it does not exist at all.
Such were the laws of Kepler, the basis of modern astronomy, which led in the hands of Newton to the simple explanation by universal gravitation, which itself is now asking to be explained.
The revolution of these spheres was not supposed to take place, like the motion of the earth in modern astronomy, round an imaginary axis, but round one which had a material existence, which was provided with pivots moving in fixed sockets.
But setting aside all ideas and prepossessions of the kind here indicated, let us see what are the actual facts revealed by the best instruments of modern astronomy, and what are the natural and logical inferences from those facts.
One of the most important results of modern astronomy is to have established the unity of the vast stellar universe which we see around us.
Copernicus there obtained that scientific training which was later to prove so fruitful in his practical work as a physician and in his scientific work as the founder of modern astronomy.
Astronomy in the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome, and director of a private observatory on the Janiculum in that city, wrote his historical scientific study [Footnote 2] of the great founder of modern astronomy.
It had confirmed the theory of astronomy which Copernicus and his successors had built up, and it had clinched the last nail in the proof that those grand conceptions of modern astronomy, now household thoughts, are realities, and not dreams.
Lewis about the effects of modern astronomy, which he does not understand and singularly undervalues, will now be seen to be of no authority.
It is entitled-- Victoria Toto Coelo; or, Modern Astronomy recast.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modern astronomy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
