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Astronomy for high schools and colleges (1889)

Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909, Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914, joint author · New York, H. Holt · leaf 493

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. Now, observation shows that this is really the case,and that the great mass of stars appear to be moving fromthe direction of the constellation Hercules and toward 474 ASTRONOMY. that of tlie constellation Argus.* A number of astrono-mers have investigated this motion with a view of deter-mining… … 50 N. 36 N. 14° 26 N. 34° 23 N. 54 N. 58 N. 28°37c 39: It will be perceived that there is some discordance aris-ing from the diverse characters of the motions to be in-vestigated. Yet, if we lay these different points down ona map of the stars, we shall find that they all fall in theconstellation…

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