Other suns than ours. A series of essays on suns - old, young, and dead, with other science gleanings, two essays on whist and correspondence with Sir John Herschel (1887)
Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 · London, New York, Longmans, Green · leaf 443
il.i6 APPENDIX. distributed in space, so as to appear to our eyes and tele scopes just as our Milky Way and sidereal firmatnent does, I see no distinct reason for or ae;ainst a spiral, discoid … annular, or cellular arrangement. As regards the openings in the form of " Coalsacks," I do not quite see that what you say (" Other Worlds than Ours," ist Edition, p. 256)
Astronomy · Whist
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