Part 47 (1/2)

_Ingenuity_, skilfulness

What progress did they make in Astronomy?

They built observatories,--invented instru with correctness,--separated the stars into different groups or constellations, for the ave particular na stars or planets, and noted the periods which each took to h its apparent path in the heavens; and in many other ways the ancients helped to lay the foundations of that es have brought to more maturity

_Constellation_, a cluster of fixed stars; an assee of stars

_Observatory_, a place so built as to coht the true systeuished philosophers of antiquity

He is thought to have been a native of Sao; he flourished about 500 years before Christ, in the tioras was the first aht that the Earth and Planets turn round the Sun, which stands immovable in the centre;--that the diurnal motion of the Sun and Fixed Stars is not real, but apparent,--arising from the Earth's oras, Astronolect

_Philosopher_, one who studies philosophy

_Philosophy_, all knowledge, whether natural or moral The term is derived from the Greek, _philos_, lover, and _sophia_, wisdom

By as it revived?

By the faypt, who founded a school of astronomy at Alexandria, which produced several eminent astronomers, particularly one naypt, becae of Astronomy, which they carried with the exile, it was introduced afresh into Europe

Did not Astronoress?

Yes; it eniuses, and patronized by the greatest princes The system of the Ptolemies, called the Ptoleht alterations; but Copernicus, an eminent astronomer, born at Thorn, in Polish Prussia, in 1473, adopted the systeoras in Greece, five or six hundred years before the time of Ptolemy About the same time with Copernicus flourished Tycho Brahe, born in Denifted with superiorto the , whether menial or bodily; abilities; powers of thescience?

The introduction of telescopes by Galileo, who by their means discovered the small stars or satellites which attend the planet Jupiter; the various appearances of Saturn; the mountains in the Moon; the spots on the Sun; and its revolution on its axis

_Satellites_, attendants

What celebrated Astronoland?

The immortal Sir Isaac Newton, born in 1642, at Woolsthorpe, in Lincolnshi+re, who has, perhaps, contributed more to the advancement of this science than any one who had before existed Dr William Herschel, a native of Hanover, in Germany, born in 1738, likewise made many useful discoveries in Astronomy: it was he who first discovered the seventh prie the Third, the Georgiue, and constituted hih, near Windsor, where he died, in 1822

_Patronage_, support, favor