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revelations of the telescope and spectroscope
entrancing.
12. THE SUN.
One of Galileo’s most striking discover-
ies, when he pointed his telescope to the
heavenly bodies, was that of the irregularly
shaped spots on the sun, with the dark cen-
tral umbra and the less dark, but more ex-
tensive, penumbra surrounding it, some-
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