All 6 Uses of
galaxy
in
The Demolished Man
- It was a vision of a shipload of explorers from a far galaxy, strange creatures, solemn and studious, who stumbled on Spaceland and researched it.†
Chpt 12 *galaxy = collection of star systems held together by gravity
- MOSES ON MT. SINAI, THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST, MOHAMMED AND THE MOUNTAIN, LAO TSE AND THE MOON, THE REVELATION OF MARY BAKER EDDY, THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD BUDDHA, THE UNVEILING OF THE TRUE AND ONLY GOD GALAXY...†
Chpt 12
- By God give me time I'll complete a picture with the Galaxy inside the frame!†
Chpt 15
- I can turn the Galaxy into a gutter if you want it.†
Chpt 16
- The galaxies, the stars, the sun, the planets...the world as we knew it.†
Chpt 16galaxies = collections of star systems held together by gravity
- This strange second in a life, that unusual event, those remarkable coincidences of environment, opportunity, and encounter...all of them have been reproduced over and over on the planet of a sun whose galaxy revolves once in two hundred million years and has revolved nine times already.†
Chpt 17galaxy = collection of star systems held together by gravity
Definition:
a collection of star systems held together by gravity -- for example, our sun is a star whose system includes Earth and the other planets. That star system is a tiny part of the Milky Way galaxy