Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 · New York, P.F. Collier and son · leaf 281
HAN OURS minuter peculiarities of structure, we are led to theconclusion that the Milky Way, judged according tothe fundamental hypothesis of Sir W. Herschel, hassome such shape as I have endeavored to exhibitin the accompanying figure. Although I have notindicated here the corrugations of the… … Pig. 4.—The Galactic Flat Ring, modified in accordance withthe observed peculiarities of the Milky Way. simplicity. It is, however, absolutely certain thatthe sidereal system, as far as its more densely aggre-gated star-regions are concerned, has some such fig-ure as this, if we are to accept the…
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