Guy's Elements of astronomy : and an abridgment of Keith's New treastise on the use of the globes (1864)
Guy, Joseph, 1784-1867, Keith, Thomas, 1759-1824. A new treatise on the use of the globes · Philadelphia, C. Desilver · leaf 52
ense distances from our system, theymust be bodies of jrreat magnitude, and doi:btlsss shineby their own liglit. They are probably suns. like oursun, to different systems ol planets: each fixed starbeing siipposed to be ine centre of its own system. That the fixed stars shine by faeir own light is… … P 5 Ihival^ ith-Ptul* THE FIXED STARS. 37 tfiAt thoiigh th« orbit of the earth is tvvire 95,()€<),0€0 of mjles atross, andwe are roiiiequeiiLly 190,000,000 of miles nearer to some siar.^ at onttime than we are at another, yel the siars always appear in the sameplaces, and with the same…
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