A high-school astronomy: in which the descriptive, physical, and practical are combined .. (1853)
Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, F. J. Huntingdon [etc.] · leaf 192
uality of the stars so conjoined, would alone lead to a strongsuspicion of a more near and intimate relation than mere casual juxtaposition. 415. What said of double, triple, and multiple stars ? 416. How are they supposed to be constituted ? How distinguished ?(Illustrate by diagram. Kemark of Dr.… … 417. A is a double star in Ursa Minor, commonlyknown as the Pole star. It consists of a star of the 2d,and another of the 9th magnitude, situated about 18apart, or about four times the diameter of the largerstar. They are both of a silvery white. It requires apretty good telescope to showr this…
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![An illustration from The geomancie / of Maister Christopher Cattan Gentleman. A booke, no lesse pleasant and recreatiue, then of a wittie inuention, to knovve all thinges, past, present, and to come. Whereunto is annexed the wheele of Pythagoras. Translated out of French into our English tongue [by Francis Sparry]. (1591)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/wellcome-wellcome_b30337860-244-1.webp)
