 LANDE. ^WHENEVER I have entered into conversation with any sensible woman on astronomy, I have always found that she had read Fontenelle's Plurality of Worlds ; and that his book had excited her curiosity on the subject.  Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds - Page iiiby M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) - 1803 - 150 pagesFull view - About this book
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...panegyrics with which it was the fashion to commend it. Lalande says : ' Whenever I have entered into a conversation with any sensible woman on astronomy,...read already, it must continue to engage attention.' Then mentioning the numerous editions through which it had passed in various countries, he quotes a... | |
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