The Adolfo Stahl lectures in astronomy, delivered in San Francisco, California, in 1916-17 and 1917-18, under the auspices of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1919)
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Aitken, Robert Grant, 1864-1951 · San Francisco Stanford University Press · leaf 38
ace, and independent ofother systems so far as its internal relations are concerned. Nowthe solar system as a whole is traveling through space withreference to the other members of the stellar system. SirWilliam Herschel suggested, a century and a third ago, thatthe apparent motions of the other… … H The Solar System 11 very simple. Let us use an illustration which every one hashad or may have the opportunity to test. Suppose the observeris traveling rapidly by railway train across a level tract ofcountry, say toward the west. He will notice that the trees,buildings, or other objects on his…
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