The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 425
398 ASTRONOMY. of the Milky-Way; and the luminous mass at the centre, theremaining stars of the system. 393. Proctor^s View. — According to Proctor, the Milky-Way is composed of an irregular spiral stream of minute starslying in and among the larger stars of our system, as repre-sented in Fig. 459.… … Fig- 459- circle as it really exists among the stars, and in the outercircle as it is seen projected upon the sky. According to thisview, the stars of the Milky-Way appear faint, not becausethey are distant, but because they are really small. 394. Newcomb^s View. — According to Newcomb, the starsof…
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