"of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules:" (U17.1050)
A titbit (1890) from Sir Robert Ball.
"of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity." (U17.1052)
"Were there obverse meditations of involution increasingly less vast?
Of the eons of geological periods recorded in the stratifications of the earth: of the myriad minute entomological organic existences concealed in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds, of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the incalculable trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules contained by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead:" (U17.1057)
Of the eons of geological periods recorded in the stratifications of the earth: of the myriad minute entomological organic existences concealed in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds, of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the incalculable trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules contained by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead:" (U17.1057)
"its universe of divisible component bodies of which each was again divisible in divisions of redivisible component bodies, dividends and divisors ever diminishing without actual division till, if the progress were carried far enough, nought nowhere was never reached." (U17.1065)
"Did he find the problems of the inhabitability of the planets and their satellites by a race, given in species, and of the possible social and moral redemption of said race by a redeemer, easier of solution?
Of a different order of difficulty." (U17.1083)
Of a different order of difficulty." (U17.1083)
"Conscious that the human organism, normally capable of sustaining an atmospheric pressure of 19 tons, when elevated to a considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo," (U17.1086)
"though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities" (U17.1096)
"and to all that is vanity.
And the problem of possible redemption?
The minor was proved by the major.
Which various features of the constellations were in turn considered?
The various colours significant of various degrees of vitality (white, yellow, crimson, vermilion, cinnabar): their degrees of brilliancy: their magnitudes revealed up to and including the 7th: their positions: the waggoner's star: Walsingham way: the chariot of David:" (17.1099)
And the problem of possible redemption?
The minor was proved by the major.
Which various features of the constellations were in turn considered?
The various colours significant of various degrees of vitality (white, yellow, crimson, vermilion, cinnabar): their degrees of brilliancy: their magnitudes revealed up to and including the 7th: their positions: the waggoner's star: Walsingham way: the chariot of David:" (17.1099)
"the annular cinctures of Saturn:" (U17.1107)
"the condensation of spiral nebulae into suns: the interdependent gyrations of double suns: the independent synchronous discoveries of Galileo, Simon Marius, Piazzi, Le Verrier, Herschel, Galle:" (U17.1108)
"the systematisations attempted by Bode and Kepler of cubes of distances and squares of times of revolution: the almost infinite compressibility of hirsute comets and their vast elliptical egressive and reentrant orbits from perihelion to aphelion:" (U17.1110)
"the sidereal origin of meteoric stones: the Libyan floods on Mars about the period of the birth of the younger astroscopist:" (U17.1113)
"the annual recurrence of meteoric showers about the period of the feast of S. Lawrence" (U17.1115)
S. Lawrence is a 3c archdeacon of Rome, born at Huesca (Spain). He was the keeper of the treasures of the church in a time when Christianity was outlawed. On 6 August 258, by decree of Emperor Valerian, Pope Sixtus II and six deacons were beheaded, leaving Lawrence as the ranking Church official in Rome. After the death of Sixtus, the prefect of Rome demanded that Lawrence turn over the riches of the Church. Lawrence asked for three days to gather together the wealth, then distributed as much Church property to the poor as possible. He then presented himself to the prefect of Rome accompanied by a multitude of Rome's poor and crippled, declaring that these were the true treasures of the Church. This act of defiance led directly to his martyrdom.
Tradition holds that he was grilled to death, August 10th 258, hence his symbol the gridiron. He is buried in the cemetery of Saint Cyriaca on the road to Tivoli, Italy.
S. Lawrence is a 3c archdeacon of Rome, born at Huesca (Spain). He was the keeper of the treasures of the church in a time when Christianity was outlawed. On 6 August 258, by decree of Emperor Valerian, Pope Sixtus II and six deacons were beheaded, leaving Lawrence as the ranking Church official in Rome. After the death of Sixtus, the prefect of Rome demanded that Lawrence turn over the riches of the Church. Lawrence asked for three days to gather together the wealth, then distributed as much Church property to the poor as possible. He then presented himself to the prefect of Rome accompanied by a multitude of Rome's poor and crippled, declaring that these were the true treasures of the Church. This act of defiance led directly to his martyrdom.
Tradition holds that he was grilled to death, August 10th 258, hence his symbol the gridiron. He is buried in the cemetery of Saint Cyriaca on the road to Tivoli, Italy.
"(martyr, 10 August):" (U11.1116)
The Perseid shower of meteors, which occurs annually between August 8-14, was known in the middle ages as the “burning (or fiery) tears of St Lawrence”.
The Perseid shower of meteors, which occurs annually between August 8-14, was known in the middle ages as the “burning (or fiery) tears of St Lawrence”.
"the monthly recurrence known as the new moon with the old moon in her arms: the posited influence of celestial on human bodies: the appearance of a star (1st magnitude) of exceeding brilliancy dominating by night and day (a new luminous sun generated by the collision and amalgamation in incandescence of two nonluminous exsuns) about the period of the birth of William Shakespeare over delta in the recumbent neversetting constellation of Cassiopeia and of a star (2nd magnitude) of similar origin but of lesser brilliancy which had appeared in and disappeared from the constellation of the Corona Septentrionalis about the period of the birth of Leopold Bloom and of other stars of (presumably) similar origin which had (effectively or presumably) appeared in and disappeared from the constellation of Andromeda about the period of the birth of Stephen Dedalus, and in and from the constellation of Auriga some years after the birth and death of Rudolph Bloom, junior, and in and from other constellations some years before or after the birth or death of other persons:" (U17.1117)