Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 · New York, R. Worthington · leaf 311
e ninebrighter orders of stars do increase in numbers as the MilkyWay is approached. If he had been satisfied with this result, Struve would!simply have obtained rough evidence of those laws of stellardistribution which my methods have more particularly-indicated. But he was not so satisfied, and… … distribution for the circuit of the equator itself—a particu-larly daring assumption, when we remember that the galaxydoes not cross the equator at right angles but slantwise, sothat an hour of stars 300 in declination range crosses partsof the star-sphere of very different richness (assuming,…
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