1755 - Drawing on Wright's work, Immanuel Kant conjectures that the galaxy is a rotating disk of stars held together by gravity, and that the nebulae are separate such galaxies,
1845 - Lord Rosse[?] discovers a nebula with a distinct spiral shape
1918 - Harlow Shapley[?] demonstrates that globular clusters are arranged in an spheroid or halo whose center isn't the Earth, decides, correctly, that its center is the center of the galaxy,
1920 - Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis[?] debate whether or not the spiral nebulae lie within the Milky Way,
1973 - Jeremiah Ostriker[?] and James Peebles[?] discover that the amount of visible matter in the disks of typical spiral galaxies isn't enough for Newtonian gravitation to keep the disks from flying apart or drastically changing shape,
1974 - B.L. Fanaroff and J.M. Riley distinguish between edge-darkened (FR I) and edge-brightened (FR II) radio sources,
1978 - Vera Rubin[?], Kent Ford[?], N. Thonnard, and Albert Bosma[?] measure the rotation curves of several spiral galaxies and find significant deviations from what is predicted by the Newtonian gravitation of visible stars,
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moment of her strongest dominion over me, I should have declared to
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support. The most independent people feel the effect of a man's
additional triumph in conquering the reverence of a critic
enthusiastic self-distrusting youth should watch and wait before
shrine of the doubtfully benignant deity who ruled his destiny.
another mind of the emotions which are stirring his own: they may
may be called forth; sometimes, in moments of happy hallucination,
he sees no outward sign of them. And this effect, as I have
Bertha was the only being who remained for me in the mysterious
Doubtless there was another sort of fascination at work--that
psychological predictions, and in compelling the men who paint
heeled and freckled.
Bertha's behaviour towards me was such as to encourage all my
dependent on her smiles. Looking back with my present wretched
intensely gratified by the belief that I had fainted on first
produced on me. The most prosaic woman likes to believe herself
romance in her, Bertha had that spirit of intrigue which gave
was dying with love and jealousy for her sake. That she meant to
though he was assiduous in his attentions to her, and I knew well
result, there was not yet an understood engagement--there had been
with my brother, and accepted his homage in a way that implied to
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