Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 · New York, R. Worthington · leaf 312
ne hour of the celestial•equator, s the place of the solar system. Then he took thestars which he had distributed uniformly along the arc a e,and spread them (according to the numerical distributionof their different orders of brightness) over the sectorial.area abs. Surely an amazing application… … law of uniformity, over the sectorial plane A b s (fig. 3). Yetit was thus that Struves celebrated section was obtained. I hesitate to point out objections against this processbecause I cannot conceive what arguments can possibly beurged in its favour. Struve himself considered that his result…
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