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What did the philosopher Auguste Comte consider the most striking example of such knowledge, which will forever remain hidden from man, and why was he wrong?

In 1844, the philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857) was looking for an example of such knowledge that would forever remain hidden from mankind. He focused on the chemical composition of distant stars and planets. Comte believed that a person would never visit them and, having no samples of a substance in his hands, was forever deprived of the opportunity to know its composition.

Auguste Comte chose an extremely unfortunate example. Just three years after his death, it became clear that the spectrum of their radiation could be used to determine the chemical composition of distant objects.

Astronomical spectroscopy made it possible to determine the composition of the gas shells of the planets of the solar system, the chemical composition of the Sun, distant stars and galaxies.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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