| Show scientific malters x has been used for some tame in germany as a means of preventing in the formation of scale in boilers AEGON is the name which has been given to the new element in the atmosphere discovered by lord rayleigh Eay leigh and prof ramsay drawings executed in london were recently successfully transmitted by telegraph to paris by means of the gray THERE were two total eclipses of the sun in the year 1712 and two in 1889 1689 this rare phenomenon will not happen again until the year 2057 A As V error of a thousandth part of a second in an astronomical calculation would mean an error of miles in the distance of a star AN american specialist in astronomy objects to the because it gives so false a notion of proportions in matters celestial an that should have a sun one inch in diameter must to preserve proportion make the earth so small as to be almost invisible and place the nearest fixed star at a distance of three hundred miles from the sun i |