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Astronomy - 4
nGen. 15:5 ... count the stars, if you are able to
count them.
so shall your descendants be.
nGen. 22:17
and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven, and
as the sand which is
upon the sea shore
nJer. 33:22
as the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured
nPtolemy
counted 1056 stars; Johannes Kepler counted 1005
nTotal number
of stars visible to the naked eye is about 4000
nThese three
verses seemed to be in scientific error until
the telescope
the telescope
nToday
scientists estimate there are more than 10**25 stars (about the same order of magnitude as
the number of
grains of sand on the earth)