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The word "protracted" means lasting longer than expected, or unusually long, so what protracted most clearly means based on the context of the excerpt is how the time period of celestial motion studies must have lasted unusually long.
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The poet presents the ways children see their own world as being delightful. They 'dance' and 'play' in this world. This tells us that they are happy there. It is a world adults don't understand because they 'cannot find the centre'.
A literal question for this excerpt would be: Who brought a radio-jammer from a head-shop?