A popular handbook and atlas of astronomy, designed as a complete guide to a knowledge of the heavenly bodies and as an aid to those possessing telescopes (1891)
Peck, William, Sir, 1862-1925 · New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 66
Way, or Via Lactea, thus passes completely round the star-sphere, and forms on it a luminous great circle, which proves that our sun is interior to it, and within itsbounds. In all ages this zone has attracted considerable attention, and offered for solution one of the noblestproblems. For… … <Z >CO a z< < DCQUi Z <a: a CO£ THE SIDEREAL HEAVENS. astronomer has turned his most powerful instruments to it, in the hope of sounding its mio-hiy depths, for in ithe knows there is locked the secret of the structure of the visible universe. To the ordinary observer among the…
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