2. On the History of the Sun's Distance Determinations; and on Scriptural and Scientific Probabilities

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This paper was accompanied by two diagrams, one of them representing more particularly the features attending on space, and the probable errors of several modern determinations therein; and the other representing the chronological order of the events, or progress made by man from the earliest times, down to the present, in ascertaining that most important of all questions in astronomy and general physics, viz., the true mean distance of the earth from the sun.