Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909, Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914, joint author · New York : H. Holt and company · leaf 505
ots of the numbers of stars in each of the fields express therelative lengths of the perpendiculars. A section of the_ sidereal sys-tem along any great circle can thus be constructed as in the figure,which is copied from Hbbschel. The solar system is supposed to be at the dot within the mass… … Fig. 136.—^arrangement of the stars on the hypothestb ovkquabiie distribution. The irregular line joining the terminal points is approximatelythe bounding curve of the stellar system in the great circle chosen.Within this line the space is nearly uniformly filled with stars.Without it is empty…
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