The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 351
324 ASTRONOMY. The number of stars between the north pole and the circlethirty-five degrees south of the equator is about as follows: — Of the 1st magnitude about 14 stars. Of the 2d magnitude about 48 stars. Of the 3d magnitude about 152 stars. Of the 4th magnitude about 313 stars. Of the 5th… … Fig- 365-The number of stars of the several magnitudes is approxi-mately in inverse proportion to that of their brightness, theratio being a little greater in the higher magnitudes, and proba-bly a little less in the lower ones. ASTRONOMY. 325 324. The Division of the Stars into Constellations.—A…
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