Astronomy with an opera-glass: a popular introduction to the study of the starry heavens with the simplest of optical instruments, with maps and directions to facilitate the recognition of the constellations and the principal stars, visible to the naked eye (1890)
Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929 · New York D. Appleton · leaf 118
,on the other hand, belongs to the first order or type whichrepresents suns that are probably both hotter and younger inthe order of development. So, then, we may look upon thetwo chief stars of this great constellation as representing twostages of cosmical existence. Betelgeuse shows us a sun… … in Rigel we see a sun blazing with the fires of youth, splen-did in the first glow of its solar energies, and holding thepromise of the future yet before it. Rigel belongs to a newgeneration of the universe ; Betel-geuse to the universe that is pass-ing. We may pursue this compari-son one step…
Astronomy -- Observers' manuals
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