Ball, R[obert] S[tawell], Sir, 1840- [from old catalog] · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 145
iced to show any appreciable disk in thegreat majority of the fixed stars which have been ex-amined. How is this to be explained ? The answeris to be sought not in the real minuteness of the starsbut in the vast distances at which they are situated.In order to form some estimate of the real… … 126 Astronomy. For this purpose the sun would have to be trans-ferred to a distance not less than 200,000 times as faras his present distance from the earth. Let a b (fig.39), denote the diameter of the sun, and let e be the position of the earth.Then as we have alreadyseen (§ 2), the…
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