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 50
elated in too special a way to the position of the observer on the earth to be easily explicable as really belonging to the system of stars. Consider, for instance, such a case as the following: Over a certain region of the heavens, nearly circular, Herschel found that his star-gaugings invariably… … Fig. 4. its centre at C, Herschel found that within the boundary A, B, D, E he always had fields of view rich in stars; while so soon as he directed the tele- scope to points outside of A, B, D, E, he found not more than perhaps four or five stars, instead of hundreds, in each field of view. The…
Astronomy · Whist
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-145-81.webp)
