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Heavenly bodies large and small … The earth as sculptured a little at a time … The farmer as a divider … Dust and its dangers … Models may mislead … Big structures economical … Smallness of atoms … Advantages thereof … A comet may be more repelled by the sun’s light than attracted by his mass.

Buildings, carriages, structures of all kinds, whether reared by art or nature, often resemble one another in form while varying much in size. Differences of dimensions are of importance to the inventor and discoverer, and will be here briefly considered, beginning with a few of their obvious and elementary aspects.

Cinders large and small on hearth.

A cube as subdivided into 8 cubes of 4 times more surface.