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The magazine '' Good Words '' is published in Edinburgh by Alexander Strahan Co. The issue is edited by one of Queen Victoria's ministers, Norman Macleod, and includes an article entitled '' A Journey Through Space '' by the Principal of Queen's University in Kingston Ontario, Canada, William Leitch , D.D. In this essay Leitch takes his readers on a hypothetical journey around the solar ...

... Space ” ''and this time Leitch was to outdo himself. ref 47 Image:1861-09c.jpg thumb right The September 1861 edition of Good Words, featuring A Journey Through Space He began by ... > ''Bees and the Art of Queen-making'' by William Leitch, Good Words, Strahan, Edinburgh, August, 1861 note 46 ''Alexander Strahan Victorian Publisher'', by Patricia Thomas Srebrnik, Univ. Of Michigan ...

... and with optics furnished by one of the best manufacturers in the United States. In 1861 Leitch arranged the building of a more permanent brick structure to house the instruments. In the summer of 1861 Leitch returned to Scotland. His children remained there and demanded his attention. The journey took ... ''The Journal of the Boards and Arts and Manufactures for Upper Canada'', Vol.1, 1861 note 44 ''University Reform Report of the Resolutions Adopted at a Great Public ...

... magazine '' Good Words '' beginning in the second week of 1860 and then appeared periodically through 1861 and 1862. The original title in the ''Good Words'' magazine was ''God's Glory In ... Leitch's appointment to Queen's College and his subsequent trips to Canada, especially in 1861. When the book was finally published the title had been reduced to the more ambiguous ... the Art of Queen-making'' (Vol II 8, Aug 1861) about his studies as a melittologist in Scotland. Significance The September 1861 article '' A Journey Through Space '' includes the earliest known reference ...

... A Journey Through Space ,” published in the journal '' Good Words '' (Edinburgh), Vol. II, for September 1861. This is remarkable because, as Godwin very ably points out, Leitch's serious writings on ... learned publications of the period.) Leitch was thus an incredibly forward thinker and his brief, 1861 discussion of the rocket for space flight should somewhat alter our conventional understanding of mankind ...

... First appeared in September 1861 in Good Words before being included in God's Glory In The Heavens by William ... his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" Image:1861_Good_Words_articles_Page_1.jpg thumb right 300px '''Graphic from A Journey Through Space, Good Words, September 1861, Strahan, Edinburgh''' Though the facts and deductions of astronomy sufficiently bring out the immensity of ...

... Back to Canada Leitch returned to Canada in late 1861 having accepted his role at Kingston on a full time basis. On his departure from ... the periodical press that they had at the present day.”'' ref 56 By December 13th 1861 Leitch was back at his desk and writing to offer his assistance to Dr Egerton ... by Robert Godwin Part 11 '''Part 11''' Footnotes note 56 ''Fifeshire Journal'', Nov. 7, 1861; ''Glasgow Herald'', Dec. 4, 1781 note 57 ''Documentary History of Education in Upper ...

... Words appeared as a weekly magazine, but was subsequently sold in monthly bundles. Beginning in 1861 it became a full-time monthly. It continued until 1906. Good Words was principally a ... science, geography and history. Contributors included famed astronomer John Herschel, and William Leitch , whose September 1861 article '' A Journey Through Space '' includes the earliest known reference to Isaac Newton's laws ...

... voice of advocate for a free and expansive system of further education in Canada. In 1861 he returned to Scotland and delivered three more essays to Macleod and Strahan. One of them was entitled " A Journey Through Space " and in this essay, published in September 1861, he pursued his earlier metaphor of scaling the rungs of an infinite ladder to get ...

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